AP Research

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Welcome to AP Research.  Thinking about your research topic before school starts, greatly helps with getting started on your research.  Your summer homework has been designed keeping that in mind. This page has been created for communicating, the summer HW to students for next year. Please visit the summer homework 24-25, for instructions on completing the HW. Please contact me at anusarkar@gmail.com if you have any questions.  

Mrs Sarkar 

Welcome to AP Research!! 

The AP Capstone research course operates as a year two of the AP Capstone program. After teaching srtudent how to enter the academic conversation in Seminar, The AP Research year is designed to instruct students how to begin that conversation. AP Research is inquiry-based course that encourages students to locate a gap in their preferred discipline of study and to explore a topic of personal interest. Students are empowered to collect and analyze  information with accuracy and precision in order to craft , communicate and eventually defend their argument or position.The course culminates in an Academic Paper (AP) of approximately 4000–5000 words (accompanied by a performance or exhibition of product where applicable) and a Presentation with an Oral Defense (POD).

The goal of an AP Capstone program include:

• Engaging students with rigorous college-level curricula focus on the core  academic skills necessary for college completion.

• Extending students’ abilities to synthesize information form multiple perspectives and apply skills in cross-curricular contexts and in new situations.

• Empowering students’ to collect and analyze information with accuracy and precision.

• Cultivating students’ abilities to craft, communicate, and defend evidence-based arguments.

• Providing opportunities for students to practice disciplined and scholarly research skills applied to relevant topics of their interest and curiosity.