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All rights reserved.\u003Cbr>Computer Science Principles is a pilot course and exam under development. It is not an Advanced Placement®(AP) course currently being offered by the College Board. The official AP Computer Science Principles (CSP) course is scheduled to launch in fall 2016. The first AP CSP exam is scheduled to be administered in May 2017. |  |  |  |  |\n|  |  | | This document is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation, grant CNS-0938336. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. |  |  |  |\n|  |  | |  |  |  |  |\n\nThe following pages provide updated versions of the through-course performance assessment made up of three separate performance tasks. These performance tasks were developed as part of the upcoming new Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles (AP CSP) course scheduled to launch in fall 2016. A first set of tasks was piloted in academic year 2012-13 at four high schools and two universities. The CSP project team then developed the following revised versions for piloting in 2013-14 based on explicit feedback from teachers who used the tasks in the classroom, discussions with experts well-versed in high-stakes assessments, and discussions with the CS Education community.  \nThese revised tasks are called \"Performance Tasks\" rather than \"Portfolio Tasks\" as they were called previously. This change better reflects the purpose of the through-course assessment, which is to use student performance on the tasks as part of determining an overall score on the AP assessment. This is not a portfolio in the sense of a student choosing her best work from a collection—rather, these items require students to complete specific tasks in three different areas.  \nMany of the changes in this version of the through-course performance assessment make clear the requirements and expectations for student work. We have worked to make the instructions clearer, to make it simple to determine what is expected in terms of length and format for each part of the performance tasks, and to facilitate collection of the artifacts and writing that students will do in completing the tasks.  \nPerformance Task-Data  \nTask  \nThere are two parts to this portfolio entry. The first part includes working in a group. The second part is done individually, but is related to the first part.  \n1. Collaborative portion: Working with your group, identify and describe a significant area in which you will collaborate to conduct an investigation to gain insight and knowledge from publicly available data. Develop a set of 3 to 5 questions that will be the focus of the investigation, find one or more large data sets that will allow you to obtain answers to your questions, and then apply computational tools and techniques to answer your questions, e.g., by finding patterns in the data, by transforming or translating the data, or by finding connections between the data and other sources of knowledge.  \nProduce an artifact and write-up that will allow someone else to understand your investigation, including the area you chose to explore, the set of questions you posed, the data set(s) used to explore the questions, the answers you obtained, and how those answers contributed to the development of insight and knowledge. Your artifact will include nontextual representations of any or all of these components, as appropriate.  \n2. Individual portion: Working on your own, create a document in which you describe your investigation in detail. You must describe the computational tools and techniques you used, explain why you chose them, and justify why they are appropriate for your investigation. The description of your investigation,","cbCainIoPDZ868Gf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainIoPDZ868Gf","pdf",425042,12,"English","# Performance Tasks Overview\n## Collaborative portion\n## Individual portion\n## Submission requirements\n## Task requirements","[{\"question\":\"What does the updated through-course performance assessment include?\",\"answer\":\"It provides updated versions of a through-course performance assessment made up of three separate performance tasks for the AP Computer Science Principles course.\"},{\"question\":\"What is required in the collaborative portion?\",\"answer\":\"Students work in a group to identify an investigation area, develop 3–5 research questions, find large publicly available datasets, use computational tools to answer the questions, and produce a shared artifact and write-up communicating the investigation and results.\"},{\"question\":\"What must the individual portion contain?\",\"answer\":\"Each student submits a detailed document explaining the computational tools and techniques used, why they were chosen, why they are appropriate, and how a skilled reader could verify and reproduce the results. 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