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The AP U.S. History course is designed to provide the same level of content and instruction that students would face in a freshman-level college survey class. It generally uses a college-level textbook as the foundation for the course and covers nine periods of U.S. history, spanning from the pre-Columbian era to the present day.
The law of truly large numbers (a statistical adage), attributed to Persi Diaconis and Frederick Mosteller, states that with a large enough number of independent samples, any highly implausible (i.e. unlikely in any single sample, but with constant probability strictly greater than 0 in any sample) result is likely to be observed. [1]
In AP US History, women’s suffrage, for example, is taught as just one of many movements encapsulated in the Progressive Era. The end result is a general devaluing of women’s histories ...
The book's tables, graphs, Key Terms, People to Know, and To Learn More sections are also updated. This is the first edition in which Bailey is not credited as an author on the cover and the title page. [1] The textbook covers American history up until the September 11 attacks.
[5] [6] [7] Big Numbers #3 and #4 were never published, and the series remains unfinished. [5] In 1999, ten pages of Sienkiewicz's art for Big Numbers #3 were published in the first (and only) issue of the magazine Submedia. [8] In 2009, a photocopy of the complete lettered art for Big Numbers #3 surfaced on eBay.
Packer launched sweeping changes to AP courses in the 2012–13 academic year, following recommendations from the National Research Council and the National Academy of Science. [4] The number of multiple-choice questions on the exams was decreased, while various subjects' exam weights shifted to written responses, analysis of sources and data ...
In 2012, the head of AP Grading, Trevor Packer, stated that the reason for the low percentages of 5s is that "AP World History is a college-level course, & many sophomores aren't yet writing at that level." 10.44 percent of all seniors who took the exam in 2012 received a 5, while just 6.62 percent of sophomores received a 5. [23]
The Politics of Large Numbers:A History of Statistical Reasoning is a book by French statistician, sociologist and historian of science, Alain Desrosières, which was originally published in French in 1993. [1] The English translation, by Camille Naish, was published in 1998 by Harvard University Press. [2]