AP Italian Language and Culture

AP Italian Language and Culture (or AP Italian) is a course offered by the American College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program. It is intended to give students a thorough background in the Italian language and Italian culture equivalent to a college-level course.

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Due to low numbers of students taking AP Italian, it was temporarily discontinued after the 2008-2009 year.[1] On July 3, 2008, The Italian Language Foundation was established to support Italian language education and the AP Italian program.[2] On November 10, 2010, the College Board announced that the program would be reinstated in the fall of 2011, with the first AP Italian Exam scheduled for May 2012.[3]

Course content

The AP Italian Language and Culture course focuses on developing students' reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills, all framed in order to reflect the richness of Italian language and culture. Teachers of the course will interweave the language structure with cultural content.

The exam

The examination tests students' abilities to successfully use three modes of communication: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational. The five ultimate goals of the exam are communication, culture, connections, comparisons, and community.

Grade distribution

In the 2012 administration, 1,806 students took the exam, with a mean score of 3.37. 1,300 students indicated themselves as non-native speakers who did not use Italian on a regular basis. The mean score for this group was 3.06.

Score 2007 2012 2013[4] 2014[5] 2015[6] 2016[7] 2017[8] 2018[9] 2020[10]
5 15.3% 22.6% 10.1% 19.7% 20.1% 21.8% 17.8% 16.1% 18.5%
4 12.7% 23.7% 21.6% 20.6% 20.3% 18.9% 19.1% 18.1% 16.9%
3 23.9% 28.1% 33.9% 28.3% 27.6% 31% 34.3% 33.3% 39.9%
2 20.0% 19.5% 27.4% 22.7% 22.9% 20.2% 22.8% 22.2% 19.6%
1 28.0% 6.1% 7% 8.7% 9.1% 8.1% 6% 10.3% 5.1%
% of scores 3 or higher 51.9% 74.4% 65.5% 68.6% 68.0% 71.7% 71.2% 67.5% 75.3%
Mean 2.67 3.37 3.00 3.20 3.19 3.26 3.20 3.08 3.24
Standard deviation 1.40 1.20 1.08 1.24 1.25 1.23 1.15 1.21 1.12

References
  1. Staff (9 January 2009). "College Board Says, 'Arrivederci, AP Italian'". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on 5 November 2010. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  2. "History of the AP Italian Program". Italian Language Foundation. Archived from the original on 24 December 2010. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  3. Lewin, Tamar (10 November 2010). "Italian Studies Regains Spot on the List of AP Courses". New York Times. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
  4. Total Registration. "2013 AP Exam Score Distributions". www.totalregistration.net. Retrieved 2016-07-01.
  5. Total Registration. "2014 AP Exam Score Distributions". www.totalregistration.net. Retrieved 2016-07-01.
  6. Total Registration. "2015 AP Exam Score Distributions". www.totalregistration.net. Retrieved 2016-07-01.
  7. Total Registration. "2016 AP Exam Score Distributions". www.totalregistration.net. Retrieved 2016-07-01.
  8. "2017 AP Exam Score Distributions".
  9. Total Registration. "2018 AP Exam Score Distributions". www.totalregistration.net. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  10. Total Registration (2020-07-09). "2020 AP Exam Score Distributions". www.totalregistration.net. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
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