Jay Matthews, education columnist for the Washington Post, offers his opinion on the new approach to the Advanced Placement program, which places more emphasis on conceptual knowledge than on memorizing facts. Beginning with AP Biology, the new multiple choice sections will test analytical skill, not memory. The co-chairman on the panel leading the AP Biology changes, Spencer A. Benson, associate professor of cell biology and molecular genetics at the University of Maryland, expects universities who teach the conceptual approach will welcome the changes.
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