Interpreting the AP Instructional Planning Report

AP Online Score Report System

Goals:

 To provide educators with AP Exam data in a dynamic and environmentally-friendly format  To provide authorized AP teachers with direct access to their students’ scores  To provide teachers with earlier access to their AP Instructional Planning Reports so they can plan curriculum adjustments in a more timely manner  To provide administrators with aggregate data, disaggregate data, usage reports, & options for updating student data

Steps to View Reports – 1. Login

Requires an Educational Professional account User ID and Password

Steps to View Reports – 2. Terms of Use

Reports are designed to provide information about the performance of your AP students to guide curricular/instructional planning

Reports are NOT to:  evaluate faculty   rank institutions share with other institutions, students, or families

*Will only appear once annually, the first time you wish to access the reports

AP Online Score Report System - Access

 AP Course Audit teachers will automatically be given access to the following reports as an Online Score Report teacher:  AP Instructional Planning Report  AP Instructional Planning Report – by section  Subject Score Report  AP Course Audit teachers may be restricted, by administrators, to receive only summary data in the AP Instructional Planning Report

New Online Score Reports & Features

Three new reports are now available for school administrators: – Five-Year School Score Summary – – AP Scholar Roster Student Datafile Additional enhancements: – Multiple years’ reports are now available. Your dashboard contains a dropdown to select the exam year (i.e., 2010, 2011, etc.).

– You can now search/filter the student score reports by student name or AP number .

AP Online Score Report System – Users

Report Name and Description AP Scholar Roster (new this year):

Roster showing all AP students who earned an AP Scholar Award, and their AP Exam scores.

Five-Year School Score Summary (new this year):

This report contains five years of data at the school, state and global levels. Also provides subject-specific summaries of total exams, scores and mean scores.

Student Datafile (new this year):

A downloadable .csv file containing student score report data for each AP student who tested this year. This information can be uploaded to other systems, or used for internal analysis and planning. This is the same data previously available in the CD that schools and districts could order for a fee.

District Summary Reports (new this year):

Similar to the paper summary reports districts have ordered for a fee in the past. Three separate summary reports are available: one by school, one with group comparisons (state, national, global), and one by student demographics.

School Administrator Who Can See It AP Teacher

Yes N/A Yes Yes N/A N/A N/A Yes

District Administrator

Yes Yes Yes Yes

AP Online Score Report System – Users

(cont.) Report Name and Description Current Year Score Summary:

Report listing the total numbers of each AP score (1 to 5) for each AP subject offered at a school.

School Score Roster:

Roster showing all AP students who tested during a specific exam year, and their AP scores. This report is customizable to display these students' scores from previous years.

AP Equity and Excellence Report:

Report displaying the percentages of a school's entire 10th, 11th and 12th grade classes who scored a 3 or higher on at least one AP Exam and the percentage of the senior class that scored a 3 or higher on at least one AP Exam during high school.

Subject Score Roster:

Roster for each AP subject listing all students and their AP scores.

AP Instructional Planning Report:

Subject-specific report showing the performance of students on the multiple-choice and free-response sections and on specific topics within that AP Exam, compared to all students.

School Administrator Who Can See It AP Teacher

Yes N/A Yes Yes Yes Yes N/A N/A Yes Yes

District Administrator

Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

AP Online Score Report System – Users

(cont.) Report Name and Description Student Score Report:

Individual, cumulative report for each AP student in a school, listing scores for each AP Exam taken by that student.

College and University Totals:

Report listing which colleges and universities received the AP scores of a school's students.

School Administrator Who Can See It AP Teacher District Administrator

Yes N/A N/A Yes N/A Yes http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/ap/scores/online-score-reporting

Steps to View Reports - 3a. Select Sections

 Schools with multiple teachers for a specific subject can use section codes to disaggregate student data by teacher – Benefit: teachers get a true view of their students’ performance  Will only appear – – once annually, the first time you access the reports if school designated section on Student Answer Sheet (only sections used on Answer sheet are displayed)  Teachers can only pick subjects for which they are authorized

Steps to View Reports - 3b. Select Organization / Role

Users with multiple organizations or multiple roles will need to select accordingly Users with multiple roles will initially be logged in as Administrators

Starting point to access all reports and system functions Personalized to the user’s role organization The same data as previous paper reports but with additional features offered by web media Choose to view or customize report Reports run real-time

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AP Scholar Roster (New in 2011)

Roster showing all AP students who earned an AP Scholar Award, and their AP Exam scores. Available for multiple exam years, starting with 2011.

Paper Scholar rosters will no longer be mailed to schools.

Five-Year School Score Summary (New in 2011)

This report contains five years of data at the school, state and global levels. Also provides subject-specific summaries of total exams, scores and mean scores.

your school your state global

Current Year Score Summary

Provides the total numbers of each AP score (1 to 5) for each AP subject offered at your school

School Score Roster

Cumulative roster displays all AP students who took AP Exams in 2010 and their AP scores.

The report can be customized to display these students’ scores from previous years.

AP Equity and Excellence

 Percentage of your school’s entire 10th, 11th and 12th grade classes who scored a 3 or higher on at least one AP Exam  Percentage of each school's senior class that scored a 3 or higher on at least one AP Exam during high school.

Subject Score Roster

Roster for each AP subject listing all students & their AP scores

AP Instructional Planning Report (Pg 1)

• The top bar graph and chart show how this group of students performed overall versus the global population. • Bottom two bar graphs and charts show student performance on multiple-choice and free response sections.

AP Instructional Planning Report (Pg 2)

Provides a detailed view of students’ performance on specific content categories on the multiple choice & free-response sections • Global Mean - the average scores of all AP students worldwide on specific content categories within the exam • Group Mean – the average scores of your students for specific content categories within the exam • Right-hand side shows how your students fall into global quartiles. Grouping of students in the higher/lower fourths indicates higher/lower performance than the total population.

Student Score Report

Individual, cumulative report for each AP student in your school, listing scores for each AP Exam taken by that student.

College and University Totals

Lists the colleges and universities that received your students' AP scores

Student Datafile (New in 2011)

• • • • A downloadable .csv file containing student score report data for each AP student. This information can be uploaded to other systems, or used for internal analysis and planning. Same as the data that were previously available in the CD that schools ordered for a fee. (Scores on CD are no longer available.) Instructions for using and formatting the file are available in the help text and at www.collegeboard.org/apdatafile .

Contact your Coordinator/Principal if:

   You see information that should be corrected: – – – – – Students missing from the report or erroneously on the report Student grade level Students names (AP Services can only correct nicknames or egregious mistakes) Same student is listed under two separate AP Numbers Student score is missing or incomplete You are switching schools or retiring You are a Department Head and would like to receive reports for subjects you do not teach

Should be helpful in a variety of situations Highly thorough with a wide array of technical support / Frequently Asked Questions

Help Section of Site

Interpreting the AP Instructional Planning Report:

Implications for Instruction “ We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.”

— John Dewey, 1857–1952

AP Instructional Planning Report (Pg 1)

• The top bar graph and chart show how this group of students performed overall versus the global population. • Bottom two bar graphs and charts show student performance on multiple-choice and free response sections.

AP Instructional Planning Report (Pg 2)

Provides a detailed view of students’ performance on specific content categories on the multiple choice & free-response sections • Global Mean - the average scores of all AP students worldwide on specific content categories within the exam • Group Mean – the average scores of your students for specific content categories within the exam • Right-hand side shows how your students fall into global quartiles. Grouping of students in the higher/lower fourths indicates higher/lower performance than the total population.

AP Instructional Planning Report…At A Glance

WOW’s!

WHOA’s!

 50% of my students scored a 5  My students’ FRQ scores   ?

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Performance on Multiple Choice

DATA

 Content Area: Molecules & Cells  Number of Questions: 26  Global Mean: 13.5

 Group Mean: 15.7

 # of Students in Each Group:  Highest Fourth: 8 students    Third Fourth: 1 student Second Fourth: 4 students Lowest Fourth: 3 students

ANALYSIS

 Based on the data, are students in your group successful in this content area?

 What is the evidence to support your assessment of success?

 Evidence from APIP report?

 Evidence other than APIP report?

 Classroom activities  Classroom assessments

Performance on Free Response

DATA

 Question/Problem (Topic): Roles of Bacteria Biological  Maximum # of Points Possible: 10  Global Mean: 4.3

 Group Mean: 4.1

 # of Students in Each Group:  Highest Fourth: 3 students    Third Fourth: 4 students Second Fourth: 4 students Lowest Fourth: 5 students

ANALYSIS

 Based on the data, are students in your group successful in this content area?

 What is the evidence to support your assessment of success?

 Evidence from APIP report?

 Evidence other than APIP report?

 Classroom activities  Classroom assessments

Instructional Planning & Practice

• What implications does analyzing your APIPR have for your instructional practice?

Instructional Planning & Practice

• What limitations, if any, do you foresee with analyzing AP Instructional Planning Report data?

Instructional Planning & Practice

• What could you do to overcome these limitations?

Forward Thinking…Short Term

 I want to revisit my unit/lessons/activities/assessments for the following concept:  Terms and definitions necessary for grasping this concept include:  Things I can do easily and quickly to tackle this concept include:  Skills my students already use in/out of the classroom  Resources that could be useful in incorporating this concept

Forward Thinking…Long Term

 Long-term plans to restructure my course to better address this concept include:  Skills my students already use in/out of the classroom  Resources that could be useful in incorporating this concept  I foresee these challenges….AND possible solutions:

Interpreting AP Scores

If you have observed…

Most scores in a subject are 1’s and 2’s:

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Review the course content against the published Course Description on AP Central to ensure that students are being taught what the exams measure. This is especially true if students whose classroom scores are high do not achieve at least average scores on AP Exams.

Consider the opportunities you have had for Professional Development and factor in student readiness (motivation, reading and writing skills, prior course work).

Most AP Scores in a subject are 4’s and 5’s:

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It could be possible that the selection criteria for the class are overly rigorous. Consider opening the class to more students.

Scores on the multiple-choice and free-response sections of the AP Exams are widely divergent:

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Implement practice sessions on test skills for multiple-choice exams, or more assignments during the school year that emphasize writing and organizational skills.

Questions?