On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Fordham’s Checker Finn joins Mike and David to discuss the changes in how the College Board is scoring Advanced Placement exams. Then, on the Research Minute, Amber reports on a meta-analysis examining the effectiveness of robot-assisted foreign language learning.

Recommended content: 

•  “Are AP exams getting easier?” —Chester E. Finn, Jr.
•  “The Great Recalibration of AP exams” —John Moscatiello
• “The College Board’s new method for raising AP scores” —John Moscatiello
• Ali Derakhshan, Timothy Teo, Esmaeel Saeedy Robat, Mostafa Janebi Enayat, and Akbar A. Jahanbakhsh, “Robot-Assisted Language Learning: A Meta-Analysis,” Review of Educational Research (May 2024).

Feedback Welcome: Have ideas for improving our podcast? Send them to Stephanie Distler at [email protected].