2019-2020 Changes to AP:

A Path to Success for All Students New processes & resources to help more students earn college credit

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

ABOUT AP 2019

Starting with the 2019-20 school year, AP students and teachers will benefit from

the following resources throughout the year: an AP question bank, subject specific

unit guides, personal progress checks, and a performance dashboard. These

resources are designed to help AP teachers provide students with focused

instruction and actionable feedback throughout the year.

In order to gain access to these materials and to improve the registration and

ordering system, AP coordinators will place exam orders in the fall, using a new

online registration and ordering system. They will receive personalized student

registration labels that will greatly reduce time-consuming bubbling of student

information before the exam. All resources are free.

We’ve seen the benefits of fall registration in our pilot program:

Scores of 3+ increased across student groups

■ In the 2017-18 school year, we piloted fall exam registration with 40,000

students. We saw an increase in scores of 3 or higher across multiple

groups. Moving the time of registration made a difference across the board,

but it had the strongest effect for students who are traditionally

underrepresented in AP.

SIX CRITICAL STEPS TO ORDER AP EXAMS (and to

avoid additional fees):

1 Enable Teacher Access

■ Teachers cannot access the APRO or AP

Classroom without participating in the AP

Course Audit. Ensure all AP teachers at each

school have done what they need to do in the

AP Course Audit to have access to APRO and

AP Classroom. New teachers must begin the

AP Course Audit process by registering in the

system. Returning teachers are renewed by the

AP administrator as in the past.

2 Complete APRO Setup

■ The AP Coordinator enters the access code

and completes initial setup steps in AP

Registration and Ordering (APRO) system,

including enabling/disabling student exam

commitment button.

3 Sign and Submit AP Participation Form

■ The AP Coordinator completes and signs theAP Participation Form. This is a digital form and

is submitted online.

4 Create Class Sections

■ AP Coordinator or teacher creates class

section (using consistent naming

conventions) in the system; only Coordinators can create exam only sections)

5 Complete Student Enrollment

■ AP Teachers give Join Codes to students.Student goes to myap.collegeboard.org and logs in using existing College Board account or signs up to create a new one if needed. Students enter join code(s) for each class to enroll; if Coordinator has enabled advanced exam indicator setting, student also indicates exam registration and completes registration information.

6 Place Exam orders

■ AP Coordinators verify student rosters and

students’ exam registration status in the system.

Once rosters are confirmed, exam orders can beplaced.

Created in collaboration with educators and based on best practices in schools across the country, these simple and effective resources will include:

Focused Practice and Feedback Throughout the Year

UNIT GUIDE

Planning guides that outline content and skills for commonly taught units within a course so teachers can focus and deepen instruction. Each unit guide suggests sequence and pacing of content, scaffolds skill instruction across units, organizes content into topics, and provides tips on taking the exam.

QUESTION BANK

A library of real AP® Exam questions, some of which have never been released to AP teachers before. Teachers can filter by course topics and skills; create customized tests and assign them online or on paper as in-class assignments or homework; create their own questions; and enable students to practice and get feedback on each question.

PERSONAL PROGRESS CHECKS

Made up of formative AP questions, personal progress checks are meant to measure student progress through each unit and throughout the year. They measure content and skills in each unit through multiple-choice questions that are scored automatically and include rationales to explain correct and incorrect answers and free-response questions with AP scoring guidelines teachers can use to evaluate student answers

PROGRESS DASHBOARD

Throughout the year, teachers can review class and individual student progress and know when students struggle on content and skills that will be assessed on the AP Exam. Students can view their own results and target additional practice. School and district leaders can review results across AP courses.

TRANSPARENCY & STABILITY

All content and skills assessed on the exam will be defined in a detailed course framework, helping AP teachers plan and focus their instruction. AP Exams will have clearly defined models for question types, tasks, and point values that will remain stable year to year. Instructional Planning Reports will reflect content and skills, giving teachers actionable, class-specific data on how their students did on the exam.

“The resources sound fantastic. I really like the idea of being able to make up our own tests from

a test bank ... And we use the previous exam questions all the time, which are really helpful.”

— SCOTT, AP U.S. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS TEACHER

Improved Exam Ordering and Administration

DIGITAL ACTIVATION

AP teachers and students sign into our classroom support system and complete a simple activation process at the start of the school year. Digital activation gives students and teachers access to the new resources and allows students to provide registration information before exam day.

FALL REGISTRATION

Fall exam registration reflects best practice policies in place at more than half of AP schools. Students are more likely to take an AP Exam and earn a 3 or higher when they make exam-taking decisions at the start of the school year. Fall registration also aligns with expectations from college and universities, who want to students to demonstrate sustained achievement in advanced courses like AP.

STREAMLINED EXAM ORDERING

AP coordinators have an improved AP Registration and Ordering system to place AP Exam orders in the fall. After teachers and students complete digital activation, AP coordinators can access rosters of AP students. Coordinators will then review, adjust, and submit that information as the school’s exam order by the fall ordering deadlines.

STUDENT REGISTRATION LABELS

For each student included in an exam order, schools will receive a set of personalized AP ID registration labels. The AP ID connects students’ exam materials with their registration information, which greatly reduces the time spent on bubbling student information before the exam.

EXAM DAY IMPROVEMENTS

AP coordinators have new tools to help organize their exam administration. Using the online rosters generated through the digital activation and ordering processes, coordinators can create and manage exam room assignments, proctors, and lists of examinees.

Fall Exam Ordering Overview There are three key deadlines for ordering 2020 AP Exams. See the complete calendar online.

Deadline Action

Preferred Deadline (October 4)

This is the recommended deadline to submit May 2020 exam orders.

Final Fall Deadline (November 15)

This is the deadline to order exams for all full-year and first-semester AP courses. Exams ordered after this deadline and by the spring course orders and fall order changes deadline will incur a late fee of $40 per exam in addition to the exam fee. This fee won’t apply to exams for courses that start after the final deadline and exams for students that transfer into the school.

Exams canceled after this deadline and by the spring course orders and fall order changes deadline will incur a cancellation fee of $40 per exam. The original exam fee will be removed from the invoice. This fee won’t apply to exams originally ordered for students who transfer out of the school.

Spring Course Orders and Fall Order Changes Deadline (March 13)

This is the deadline to order exams for second-semester courses, and to update the exam order with any late orders or canceled exams.

Exams canceled after this deadline will incur a cancellation fee of $40 per exam. The original exam fee will be removed from the invoice. This fee won’t apply to exams originally ordered for students who transfer out of the school.

Alternate exams taken on late-testing dates can be ordered after this deadline, if needed. A $40 per exam late-testing fee will apply in specific circumstances.

For more information, visit collegeboard.org/ap2019

© 2019 The College Board.

AP 2019 Materials by Audience Find updates and additional outreach supports by visiting us online.

All Audiences

1. The "why" behind fall registration (video)

2. Overview of changes (video from 2018 APAC conference)

3. Your New AP School Year (timeline of key dates and deadlines (web page)

Principals

1. Checklist of to-dos and best practices to prepare the school community (downloadable PDF)

2. Sample faculty meeting agenda (downloadable PDF)

3. Sample course catalog language (downloadable PDF)

4. Modular presentation to explain the changes to parents, students, and staff (downloadable PPT)

Teachers

1. Course-specific updates for the 2019-20 school year (landing page with links)

a. Each course specific-page contains a video and link to the CED order form

2. CED binder ordering information (downloadable handout)

3. What the 2019-20 changes mean for teachers (downloadable handout)

4. Introduction to unit guides (video)

5. Professional development opportunities overview (forthcoming; downloadable handout)

6. Self-guided tutorial (available Aug 1)

Coordinators

1. What the 2019-20 changes mean for coordinators (downloadable handout)

2. Operational Overview (webinar)

3. Introduction to AP registration and ordering (video)

4. Professional development opportunities overview (coming in late March; downloadable handout)

5. Face-to-Face Coordinator Training Workshops (web page with list of full- and half-day workshops

with links to register)

6. AP coordinators manual (forthcoming in May)

7. Self-guided tutorial (available Aug 1)

Parents/Students

1. What the 2019-20 changes mean for students (downloadable handout; Spanish version coming

in early April)

2. Newsletter and social media content for parents and students (coming in late March;

downloadable PDF)

3. Parent website updates (coming in early April)

Best Practices for AP 2019 District

Implementation: District Leaders

The following are suggested best practices for district implementation of this new

annual process:

■ Spring 2019: Connect AP teachers with overview videos on the new annual process (see the AP 2019 website for videos and other resources).

■ Spring 2019: Facilitate meeting with AP Coordinators to review new process and discuss timeline.

■ Early June: 2019 CED Binders (including unit guides) are mailed and become available on AP Central for AP Teachers

■ August 1: AP Registration and Ordering (APRO) system opens. AP Coordinators can begin to review the system and set up classroom sections for their schools.

o Use consistent class naming conventions when creating classes (ex: Smith – 1st Period APUSH).

o AP Coordinators can enable or disable student commitment to test button. If your district expectation is that all students will test, you can disable this student choice selection button.

■ Before school begins: Hold a meeting with the AP coordinators to complete

first three critical steps which allow students and teachers to access the new

tools (Teacher Access Enabled, APRO Setup Complete, and Participation

Form Signed – see the list on page one).

■ Beginning of the school year: District leaders and champions hold meetings

with the AP teacher teams at each school to provide technical assistance in

accessing tools and class rosters.

■ First days of school: Either the AP Coordinator or teachers create classroom

sections in the new system.

o Create class sections for all AP teachers.

o Provide join codes for all AP teachers to give to their students.

o Provide opportunities for students to use join codes to enroll in the AP classes in the system. Note that students must create a College Board account if they don’t already have one.

o Make sure that students and parents understand the deadline you set for committing to take the exam (unless choice button disabled).

■ Set deadline for the teachers to have students on their rosters by end of September (in order to meet Oct. 4 priority ordering deadline).

■ By late October: Schools submit their exam orders (set early internal deadline in order to make Nov. 15 deadline for district).

■ Before exam ordering deadline: Confirm rosters in the system match official

class rosters.

Note - Because AP Exam orders can be modified up until the ordering deadline, it is a best practice for AP Coordinators to submit orders throughout the window rather than wait until the final order deadline.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

ABOUT AP 2019

collegeboard.org/AP2019

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