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(As amended 

by Senate 

at its meeting of 

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY0ct0ber1,

1990)

MEMORANDUM

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lfl Senate ?

FROM: ?

Nick Heath, Secretary

Advanced Placement Program

Action undertaken by the Senate Undergraduate Admissions Board (SUAB)

at its meeting of 11 June 1990, gives rise to the following motion:

MOTION: "that Senate approve

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granting of advanced standing

and/or transfer cre

for certain examinations offered

by the Advan

Placement Program, subject to a

minimum gr

of 4 in each examination"

MOTION' (as amendedi: 

"that 

Senate approve, with. 

the

recommendation of the 

appropriate academic 

unit 

using established procedures 

for articulation, and subject to a minimum grade of 4 

in the examination, 

that 

advanced standing and/or 

transfer credit for certain examinations offered through. 

the Advanced Placement Program be granted" 

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

To: ?

SUAB ?

From: Nick Heath, Secretary

Senate Undergraduate

Admissions Board

Subject: Advanced Placement Program

Date: 1990 06 04

SUAB 200

Interini policy, approved by Senate in March 1987, is overdue for review. (See

paper S87-4 attached).

Experience with this program has been positive, albeit limited. The interest in

A.P.P. is increasing rapidly among B.C. secondary schools and there are

indications that schools in other provinces will adopt the Program in increasing

numbers. In our strategy toattract top students to S.F.U., recognition of A.P.P. is

an important component.

Several major Canadian universities now have placement and transfer credit

policies which resemble our interim policy.

SUAB sought advice from those academic departments which had accepted

students who had taken A.P.P. exams in their disciplines. There was strong

support for changing the existing policy from interim to regular status.

A current list of A.P.P. examinations which are recognized by this University is

attached.

Motion:

To approve and to recommend to Senate for consideration and

approval the granting of advanced standing and/or transfer credit

for certain examinations offered by the Advanced Placement

Program, subject to a minimum grade of 4 in each examination.

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Office of the Registrar

Advanced Placement Program

Transfer List

Biology

Transfer credit for BISC

101, 102

(8 credits)

Calculus AB

Advanced standing in MATH 151 *

Calculus BC

Advanced standing in MATH

151, 152

(no

credit)

Chemistry

Advanced standing in CHEM 104, 105

(no credit)

Computer Science A

Transfer credit for CMPT 103 (3 credits)

Computer Science AB

Transfer credit for CMPT 103, 104

Transfer credit for ENGL (3 credits)

Composition

English Literature &

Transfer credit for ENGL (3 credits)

Composition

American History

Transfer credit for HIST (3 credits)

European History

Transfer credit for HIST 106 (3 credits)

C -

Transfer credit for PHYS 120 (3 credits) **

Physics

C -

Electricity &

Transfer credit for PHYS 121

credits)

Magnetism

Spanish Language

Advanced standing in SPAN 303

Spanish Literature

Advanced standing in SPAN 240, 103

Course challenge (credit by examination) is also available in most disciplines.

* Consult Department of Mathematics & Statistics for topics which are missing from

Calculus AB, but are required prior to registering in MATH 152/155/158.

** Students should be aware that the following topics are not covered in APP Physics C

but are included in PHYS 120 and 121: heat, kinetic theory, thermodynamics, wave

motion, interference diffraction, geometric optics and some topics in modern physics and

special relativity.

June 1990

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Mesraadi•

To: Senate

From: N. Heath

Secretary, S.U.A.B.

Subject: SUAB 162

Date: 87/02/16

Action undertaken by the Senate Undergraduate Admissions Board at its

meeting of 29 January 1987 gives rise to the following motion:

MOTION:

That Senate approve the granting of transfer credit and/or

• advanced standing for eHeminations passed with a grade

of 4 or higher In the specified disciplines of the Advanced

Placement Program as given in

S. 87-4

and that this policg be effective immediately on a

3-year trial basis, subject to a review by SIIJ.LB. in 1988.

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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

Messrsili•

To: Senate ?

From: N. Heath

Secretary, S.U.A.B.

Subject: APP

Date: 87/02/16

Proposed rsIIcg:

For an interim 3-year period, from the present until December, 1989, Simon

Fraser University will grant transfer credit and/or advanced standing for

certain specified examinations in the College Entrance Examination Board's

Advanced Placement Program as follows;

The candidate must have achieved a minimum grade of 4 (where 5 is the

highest grade).

European History

Biology

Physics B

Calculus BC

Physics C

Chemistry

English (Lang. & Composition)

English (Lit. & Composition)

Advanced standing in History 106

Transfer credit for Biological Sciences

101,102(g)

Transfer credit for Physics 101,102(6)

Advanced standing in Mathematics 151,

152, subject to an individual assessment

Advanced standing in Physics 120, 121

Advanced standing in Chemistry 104, 105

No advanced standing

Further APP examinations may be added to this list following a review by

S.U.A.B. of the recommendation of the respective academic department.

Iutgr..md:

The Advanced Placement Program consists of a series of examinations in

various disciplines, given annually in May.to senior high school students.

The examinations are set by commmittees of instructors at both the high

school level and at the college and first-year university level. The

examinations are marked centrally, and the administration of the

examinations is handled by the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New

Jersey.

A.P.P. started In 1955, and since then, the numbers of students writing the

eliminations, and numbers of post-secondary Institutions giving recognition

to the examination results, have grown substantially. Approximately

150,000 candidates from about 5,800 high schools will write the

examinations this year. About 1,800 colleges and universities in the United

States will grant recognition In some fm to these examinations.

The program encourages college level coursework In the secondary school.

Typically, the Advanced Placement examinations are taken only by selected

students who are in enriched high school programs, and who would

otherwise find the high school curriculum lacking In Intellectual challenge.

However, APP does not replace the local high school curriculum, but is a

supplement to it. Students who are successful in the APP examinations

appear to be highly motivated and are likely to pursue their educations at

the university level with a high probability of success.

Until recently, there appears to have been little interest In the APP In

Canadian secondary schools. The only university in Canada which gives

recognition to APP examinations is McGill. In the past two years, a number

of B.C. secondary schools have begun to implement enrichment programs for

selected students, leading to APP examinations in some subjects, in addition

to regular secondary school graduation.

The program was started In B.C.

public schools

by Science teachers In the

Central Okanagan School District and has since been adopted by a number of

other schools in the greater Vancouver area. Interest now appears to be

province-wide. At the present time, it appears that about 30 B.C. secondary

schools will be presenting candidates for APP examinations in 1987 or 1988.

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Each examination is graded on a 5-point scale as follows:

5 - extremely well qualified

4- well qualified

3- qualified

2- possibly qualified

1- no recommendation

Many of the 1,800 universities and colleges in the United States accepting

APP results will give recognition to courses passed with a grade of 3 or

higher. However, a number of the more prestigious schools require a 4 o

higher for advanced standing or credit, since it is not in the student's best

interest to proceed to higher level courses without a thorough mastery of the

first-year courses in most disciplines.

The Senate Undergraduate Admissions Board considered that placement and

credit should only be considered for grades of 4 or higher.

[ipsuleace

We are aware of only a handful of students who have entered the University

having taken APP examinations. Of these, only one student has been given

transfer credit on an individual basis, for first-year Physics. Consequently,

inadequate data are available for making any statistical inferences about the

relative performance of students with and without APP. However, a number

of research reports based on APP students in U.S. institutions show that

these students tend to perform better than average In university programs.

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Simon Fraser University needs to remain responsive to initiatives taken in

the B.C. school system to improve the quality of education. The decision

taken in 1984 to give credit for certain partially completed International

Baccalaureate programs, has helped substantially in raising the profile of

Simon Fraser as a university which is interested in attracting the Province's

best academic students. Similarly, it will be in the interests of the University

and of its future students, to take the initiative on this issue, and to

recognize the Advanced Placement Program. This Is especially important In

view of the widespread distriubution of results of these examinations.

Universities across the continent will be focussing part of their recruitment

on British Columbia students who have

erformed well In APP

examinations.

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