AP Audit and AP Instructional Planning Report

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AP Audit and AP Instructional Planning Report

• Region XIII
• November 10, 2005

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APs Fiftieth AnniversaryHonoring the AP
Community

• Theme Higher Standards. Higher Learning.
• Publications highlighting powerful AP teaching
  and college faculty involvement in AP
• Free AP and Pre-AP workshops for teachers
• One voucher to each school with at least one 2005
  AP examinee
• Sent to principal in August 2005

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AP Course Audit Why

• In late 2004,
• College Board membership councils requested an
  AP Course Audit, effective for courses that will
  be labeled AP in the 2007-08 academic year.

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AP Course Audit

• Provide guidelines to schools for improving AP
  courses
• Clarify AP curricular and professional
  development expectations
• Encourage administrators to support teacher
  professional development
• Preserve the value of the AP name for colleges
  and universities

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Development Timeline

• Fall 2004 GAAC and AAC request AP Course Audit
• Spring 2005 Course Audit draft plan presented to
  GAAC and AAC.
• June 2005 Feb 2006 Course Audit draft
  circulated to members for feedback and revision

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Development Timeline

• June 2005 Focus groups gather feedback from
  10,000 AP teachers, principals, superintendents,
  school counselors, department chairs, and college
  faculty
• September 2005 Course Audit drafts circulated to
  20,000 principals and district officials
• November 2005 Course Audit drafts circulated to
  state officials and entities

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AP Course Audit How will it work?

• Schools submit a one-page AP Course Audit form
  and syllabus for each AP teacher, signed by the
  AP teacher and either the principal or department
  chair
• License is granted to label the course AP
• Ledger of schools with official, qualifying AP
  courses will be distributed with AP Exam grades
  to all colleges and universities
• Schools do not need to complete the Course Audit
  to order and administer AP Exams
• For more information, visit http//apcentral.colle
  geboard.com/courseaudit

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AP Course Audit Timeline

• July-December 2005
• Draft AP Course Audit forms circulated to raise
  awareness of requirements
• February 2006
• Final version of AP Course Audit forms for
  2007-08 academic year AP courses sent to schools
  and posted on AP Central
• June 1, 2006 - June 1, 2007
• AP Course Audit materials due for 2007-08 course
  authorizations
• Audit form and syllabus

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AP Course Audit Timeline

• September 1, 2006 - September 1, 2007
• Approximately three months after submitting AP
  Course Audit materials, schools receive a legal
  agreement authorizing use of the AP designation
  on qualifying courses for the 2007-08 academic
  year
• July 2008
• List of all schools authorized to use the AP
  course designation with names of the courses
  authorized at each school sent with AP Grade
  Reports

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AP Instructional Planning Report

• A powerful resource for AP teachers
• Replaces and improves upon the Report to AP
  Teachers
• Automatically sent to principals in September for
  distribution to teachers
• Separate report for each subject
• Compares the performance of a schools students
  to the total population of students taking the
  exam
• Helps teachers target areas for increased
  attention and focus in the curriculum
• Provides guidance in course planning and
  professional development

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AP Instructional Planning Report

• Front page provides big picture view of overall
  score distribution and performance on
  multiple-choice and free-response sections
• Bar graphs give teachers immediate picture of how
  their students scores are distributed vs. the
  global population
• Instructions for reading and interpreting the
  charts appear next to each chart

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New AP Instructional Planning Report

• Student performance on multiple-choice and
  free-response sections
• Gray bars represent the global group, divided
  evenly into fourths based on performance
• Black bars show the percentage of a schools
  students who fall into each fourth
• If the local score distribution is comparable to
  that of the global population, expect to see
  students distributed evenly across the fourths
• Grouping of students in the higher or lower
  fourths indicates higher or lower performance
  than the total population

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AP Instructional Planning Report

• Back page provides drilled-down view of
  students performance on specific content
  categories on the multiple-choice and
  free-response sections

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Debra CraigChief Educational Manager K-12
Services512 721-1806dcraig_at_collegeboard.org
Southwestern Regional Office College Board Contact