How AP CS A Matches College Courses

Session Outline

• The AP CS A course and examination — Diaz
  • Purpose: college credit and/or placement
  • Content overview
• Approaches and tools to help match AP CS A with introductory courses — Hunt
  • Overview, need for comparability
  • Make-up of the Development Committee (with inclusion of both high school and college faculty)
  • Pretesting — Walker
    • Approach
    • Need for involvement from college teachers
  • 2008 Faculty Colloquia — Walker
  • 2011 College Curriculum Survey — Diaz
  • 2012 Comparability Study — Hunt
    • Motivation
    • Some characteristics of college courses
    • Relationship between AP CS A and typical college courses
• Use of feedback results — Walker
  • Adjustments in AP CS A coverage
  • On-going elements for both colleges and AP CS A
• Long-term evolution of AP CS A — Ciezki
  • The past
  • The present
  • The future
• Questions, audience feedback, discussion — All

Session Abstract

Slides available at:

http://www.walker.cs.grinnell.edu/talks/apcs-2013-comparability/

created 18 January 2013 last revised 8 March 2013