Research On Advanced Placement Reform Of American Universities

The AP Course is the abbreviation of the Advanced Placement Course, we also call it the Pre-university Courses. It is set up for the students who are capable in the high school stage, it amounts to the junior level courses in the university. Since the twentieth Century fifty, it has received warm response from all over the world and USA, and there are more than200countries have recognized and open the Advanced Placement Course so far. The AP courses are conducive to the connection between secondary education and higher education, It is also helpful for the establishment of model and the selection of diversified talent cultivation modes. In a word, it has made an indelible contribution to the rapid development of secondary education and higher education in the American. At the same time, there are also some inevitable problems in the process of development of USA AP course, To solve these problems the American college board and the relevant departments have devoted to reform and consummate the courses ceaselessly, and achieved remarkable results in the end.At the present stage, we are carrying on the new round of the curriculum reform of basic education like a raging fire. By other’s faults, wise men correct their own. We can learn from the curriculum reform and development. Take the essence, goes to its dregs, through the discussion and research of the Advanced Placement Course, we can learn from the successful experience of USA AP course, and suck up the failures and lessons meanwhile.This paper is divided into three parts. The first chapter introduces the Advanced Placement Course (AP courses) totally, including the origin and development of AP course, the set-up of AP courses, The features of AP programs, AP teaching and examination and evaluation; The second part introduces the reform of AP courses, including the reasons, measures and achievements of reform; The last part discusses the American AP curriculum for basic education curriculum reform in our country at the present stage of enlightenment and reference.