{"id":25971,"date":"2018-02-12T22:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T04:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/?p=25971"},"modified":"2018-02-12T22:33:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T04:33:56","slug":"foia-question-ap-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2018\/foia-question-ap-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"FOIA Question &#038; AP exams."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a FOIA question.   <\/p>\n<p>As many of you know I&#8217;m tutoring high school physics. I have students from several different schools. Each school uses a somewhat different method of teaching physics, goes at different paces and so on. Naturally, I am curious to know the distribution of outcomes on the final AP Physics exams at each school. <\/p>\n<p>Motivated by curiosity, I wanted to see what sorts of reports schools get and found this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/apcentral.collegeboard.org\/score-reports-data\/score-reports\/report-descriptions\"> Report Descriptions<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Untitled-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Untitled-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"701\" height=\"934\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Untitled-2.png 701w, https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Untitled-2-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Untitled-2-375x500.png 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think the Five-Year School Summaries contain the information I would be curious about. (I&#8217;m only curious about AP Physics scores, though there may be other people curious about other courses.)<\/p>\n<p>Do you people think anonymized scores for AP Physics tests is something that would be accessible under FOIA? (This is assuming the school downloaded them from the college board and retained them, which I think most would.)  <\/p>\n<p>Real question btw.  Of course you are also free to discuss whether such a request would be useful, obnoxious and so on. ( I am <i>perfectly<\/i> aware that many teachers will consider it obnoxious.  How their students did on standardized tests in their classes is something teachers typically <i>don&#8217;t<\/i> want the public to access because they feel people rate teachers this way. Of course teachers aren&#8217;t wrong about this. That said: I&#8217;m still curious. My reasons are not really rating teachers, but more that I would like to know how students in Illinois really do do, especially those in my county. )<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, my main question right now is whether it&#8217;s something that I ought to be able to get with a sufficiently carefully worded request?<\/p>\n<p>Open thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a FOIA question. As many of you know I&#8217;m tutoring high school physics. I have students from several different schools. Each school uses a somewhat different method of teaching physics, goes at different paces and so on. Naturally, I am curious to know the distribution of outcomes on the final AP Physics exams &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/2018\/foia-question-ap-exams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FOIA Question &#038; AP exams.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rankexploits.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}