Section 1.13

Learning Goals

• Students will include the unique perspective of others and reflect on one's own perspective to examine digital artifacts from multiple viewpoints from a diverse audience.

• Students will iterate on documents to communicate information with increased relevancy to a target audience.

Objectives and General Descriptions

The objective of this section is to provide collaboration across teams in the form of feedback during a gallery walk. The purpose of receiving feedback from peers is to gather multiple perspectives apart aside from the student creators. This encourages students to think and design for a diverse audience in future projects.

Activities

Activity 1.13 (Budget 55 minutes)

A gallery walk is where students display their completed work and have an opportunity to see what their classmates have done on their projects.  They can view the websites, see the Innovation of Evolution artifacts and play the quiz apps.  Students gain ideas and learn from each other.  This can be an informal event or the teacher can supply feedback forms so that students are giving and receiving productive feedback from their peers.  It is suggested to host a bigger gallery walk at the end of the semester or year and invite parents, teachers and administrators.  Gallery walks are great opportunities to showcase computer science and drive interest in the program.

Assessment of ARC Challenge project

Teachers should implement a variety of formative and summative assessments that meet the criteria of their school and district.

One option for a summative assessment is to grade the ARC projects and incorporate an individual written assessment for each student. The rubric can be found here.  The website and the app  count for 40 points each.  The remaining 20 points will be earned by written responses from each student.  These written responses should be completed in the classroom without using any outside resources.  Students are not simply copying information from their websites.  They should recall the terminology and apply it to their selected innovation.

Team websites and apps can be scored by the teacher during the gallery walk or or the teacher can have teams formally present their projects and grade them during the presentations.  The teacher should keep a list of all team websites.  One recommendation is to make a folder in your browser bookmarks and save all URLs in this folder.

AP Classroom

Navigate to AP Classroom and choose Big Idea 1 - Creative Development.  Creative Development is divided into four sections:  1) collaboration 2) program function and purpose 3) program design and development 4) identifying and correcting errors.  You can view each question aligned with that particular section.  You can click on the plus sign to see more and/or hover over the question.  You can also, click on the light bulb that will allow you to view all of the Topic Questions.  Select the questions that you want to assign to the students.  You can assign dates and times that the assignment will be available.

These materials should be used as formative assessments, not as high-stakes grades.  From College Board, “Because the Topic Questions and Progress Checks are formative, the results of these assessments cannot be used to evaluate teacher effectiveness or assign letter grades to students, and any such misuses are grounds for losing school authorization to offer AP courses.” 

You can also assign full practice exams to the students in AP Classroom.

Resources

• 1.13.1: Feedback form (student worksheet)

• 1.13: Scoring rubric for ARC Challenge #1 summative (teacher resource)

• 1:13: Student written response for ARC Challenge #1 (student assessment)