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- Volume 12
- Issue 3
- Publication Date: Spring 2001
The Role of Advanced Placement in Talent Development
Joyce VanTassel-Baska
As a field, gifted education has never fully embraced or endorsed Advanced Placement programs as a viable program option for secondary gifted learners. I believe that this position is untenable, given the role that Advanced Placement options play in responding to the needs of gifted learners within specific academic and arts areas and the high regard with which these programs are viewed by selective colleges. At my own institution, now rated sixth in the country among public institutions, no student is likely to be admitted without evidence of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, or dual-enrollment coursework. This standard is now fairly typical of the top 300 selective colleges in this country. In this essay, I would like to discuss the benefits of Advanced Placement (AP) work for gifted learners, establish the relationship between AP and our current understanding of the talent development process, and delineate special issues and concerns that educators of the gifted must be cognizant of in encouraging their students to participate in AP.
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