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Head of AP Trevor Packer biography and Career

TFIGLOBAL News Desk by TFIGLOBAL News Desk
March 3, 2022
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Trevor Packer Biography

The College Board’s Senior Vice President of Advanced Placement and Instruction, Trevor Packer, is the current head of the Advanced Placement (AP) Program. In this article we are going to talk about biography, career, notable works and family of Trevor Packer so read the full article here.

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He is quite popular on Twitter and has been followed by over 80k people. He joined twitter in 2011 and can be reached at @AP_Trevor on twitter.

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Career Biography of Trevor Packer

While pursuing his PhD in English, Packer began his employment with the College Board as a temporary staffer for the AP office in New York City. Packer was promoted to Assistant Director of Operations in 1999.

Trevor Packer took over as the head of the AP programme after Lee Jones left in 2003.

Following recommendations from the National Research Council and the National Academy of Science, Packer implemented major changes to AP courses in the 2012-13 school year.

The amount of multiple-choice questions on the exams was reduced, and the exam weights for various courses switched to written responses, source and data analysis, projects, and portfolios.

In 2014, the revision of the AP US History course sparked a lot of debate.

Trevor Packer short biography

Trevor Packer was born in Provo, Utah, the first of Shirlee and Rand Packer’s nine children. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since he was a child. He served as a missionary in Milwaukee at the age of 19, before going on to Brigham Young University to study English for his undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Advanced Placement (AP) and Trevor Packer

Advanced Placement is a college-level curriculum and examination programme offered to high school students in the United States by the College Board. Students who perform well on the exams may be given placement and course credit by American colleges and institutions. A panel of specialists and college-level educators in that field of study creates the AP curriculum for each of the various topics for the College Board. To earn the designation, a high school course must be audited by the College Board to ensure that it meets the AP curriculum as outlined in the Board’s Course and Examination Descriptions (CED). The school may use the AP label if the course is authorized, and the course will be publicly published on the AP Course Ledger.

Over the last decade, the number of AP tests given each year has steadily increased. 175,860 English Language and Composition tests were given out in 2003. By 2013, the number had climbed to 476,277, a 171 percent increase. Nearly all AP examinations have shown an increase in popularity in the last decade, with the AP Psychology exam witnessing a 281 percent increase. The most popular AP exam in 2017 was English Language and Composition, with 579,426 students taking it, and the least popular was Japanese Language and Culture, with 2,429 students taking it.

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His achievements

Packer’s quick expansion of the programme sparked accusations that AP was profiting from students who were ill-prepared or disadvantaged.

To these critiques, Packer answered by stressing that average test results did not drop considerably when access to the courses was expanded.

Chester E. Finn Jr. and Andrew E. Scanlan, education policy experts, discovered that throughout Packer’s time of significant development, the average AP score “barely budged: 2.84 in 2017, down slightly from 2.88 in 2007,” and ascribe this to “Packer’s own hand [on the AP tiller] since 2003.” Packer’s growth of the AP programme, according to Nat Malkus of the conservative American Enterprise Institute, is the “rarest form of triumph in public education.”

We hope this biography article of Trevor Packer will be helpful for you to understand his journey and works.

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