The examination consists of two parts. One part is a multiple-choice examination. The second part is a portfolio submission of work. While they canceled the multiple-choice examination (all AP examinations were free-response only last year), they retained the portfolio submission.
This is analogous to what happened with AP CS A (the course that is equivalent to Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming at many universities). I teach that course, and the multiple-choice questions were eliminated, the st
Okay, I think I figured out what has happened. They cancelled the exam but gave out grades based on coursework instead. That's what it says here: https://blog.collegevine.com/h... [collegevine.com]
"Itâ(TM)s also worth noting that the AP Seminar and AP Computer Science Principles assessments will not include an end-of-course exam this yearâ"students will only be assessed by their portfolio submissions."
So they are exam equivalents and the confusion is just poor reporting... Or not even that, they are calling them ex
Slippery slope bullshit. Coursework is part of the assessment anyway on many courses, although I don't know about this one specifically. In any case it was an exceptional year, so due to the pandemic either they fail everyone and they have to repeat, meaning over-subscription next year and lawsuits flying over fees and costs, or they find some way to make it work and still give everyone a reasonably fair grade.
In the UK this year, and for some countries next year, exams were cancelled and only coursework us
They didn't cancel the it you fools. Can nobody read nowadays? I guess everyone on slashdot failed their basic reading AP exams, that would explain a lot.
From literally the first paragraph of the so-called cancelation link: "This year, there will be no end-of-year multiple-choice exam in Computer Science Principles—your AP score *WILL BE COMPUTED FROM THE Create and Explore PERFORMANCE TASKS* only. Access the 2020 scoring guidelines (.pdf/154 KB) for the performance tasks, which are the same as the 2019 scoring guidelines."
"This year, there will be no end-of-year multiple-choice exam in Computer Science Principles. There is usually an end of year test scheduled. Now there isn't. The test was therefore cancelled. They are still computing a final score, but you cannot say "record number of people take test" if there was no test to actually take.
Yes, reading ins fundamental. You should try it sometime.
The referenced press release clearly says (I read it, and not just the summary above)
"In 2020, more than 116,000 students took the AP CSP Exam—more than double the number of exam takers in the course's first year, and a 21% increase over the previous year. In 2020, 39,570 women took the AP CSP exam, nearly three times the number who tested in 2017."
TOOK THE EXAM...EXAM TAKERS...
But there were in fact no exams taken. Those may be the numbers for
The examination consists of two parts. One part is a multiple-choice examination. The second part is a portfolio submission of work. While they canceled the multiple-choice examination (all AP examinations were free-response only last year), they retained the portfolio submission.
This is analogous to what happened with AP CS A (the course that is equivalent to Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming at many universities). I teach that course, and the multiple-choice questions were eliminated, the st
Okay, I think I figured out what has happened. They cancelled the exam but gave out grades based on coursework instead. That's what it says here: https://blog.collegevine.com/h... [collegevine.com]
"Itâ(TM)s also worth noting that the AP Seminar and AP Computer Science Principles assessments will not include an end-of-course exam this yearâ"students will only be assessed by their portfolio submissions."
So they are exam equivalents and the confusion is just poor reporting... Or not even that, they are calling them ex
Slippery slope bullshit. Coursework is part of the assessment anyway on many courses, although I don't know about this one specifically. In any case it was an exceptional year, so due to the pandemic either they fail everyone and they have to repeat, meaning over-subscription next year and lawsuits flying over fees and costs, or they find some way to make it work and still give everyone a reasonably fair grade.
In the UK this year, and for some countries next year, exams were cancelled and only coursework us
They didn't cancel the it you fools. Can nobody read nowadays? I guess everyone on slashdot failed their basic reading AP exams, that would explain a lot.
From literally the first paragraph of the so-called cancelation link:
"This year, there will be no end-of-year multiple-choice exam in Computer Science Principles—your AP score *WILL BE COMPUTED FROM THE Create and Explore PERFORMANCE TASKS* only. Access the 2020 scoring guidelines (.pdf/154 KB) for the performance tasks, which are the same as the 2019 scoring guidelines."
"This year, there will be no end-of-year multiple-choice exam in Computer Science Principles. There is usually an end of year test scheduled. Now there isn't. The test was therefore cancelled. They are still computing a final score, but you cannot say "record number of people take test" if there was no test to actually take.
Yes, reading ins fundamental. You should try it sometime.
The referenced press release clearly says (I read it, and not just the summary above)
"In 2020, more than 116,000 students took the AP CSP Exam—more than double the number of exam takers in the course's first year, and a 21% increase over the previous year. In 2020, 39,570 women took the AP CSP exam, nearly three times the number who tested in 2017."
TOOK THE EXAM...EXAM TAKERS...
But there were in fact no exams taken. Those may be the numbers for