What is EAP?
EAP stands for Early Assessment Program. EAP is a result of collaboration between K-12 Educational systems and California State University (CSU). The program is designed to determine students’ readiness to do college-level work in English-language arts and/or mathematics. Readiness for college-level work is determined by the student’s score on 15 multiple-choice items for English-language arts as well as a writing prompt given in 11th grade English classes prior to STAR testing and 15 for math on the California Standards Test (CST) given during the spring of their junior year. The benefit for students answering these additional optional questions is earning an exemption from taking the CSU-required English and/or math placement tests.
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) [RFC 3748] is just the transport protocol optimized for authentication, not the authentication method itself: ” [EAP is] an authentication framework which supports multiple authentication methods. EAP typically runs directly over data link layers such as Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) or IEEE 802, without requiring IP. EAP provides its own support for duplicate elimination and retransmission, but is reliant on lower layer ordering guarantees. Fragmentation is not supported within EAP itself; however, individual EAP methods may support this.
