AP Capstone
AP Capstone
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What is Capstone?
What is Capstone?
Capstone is a program available to junior and senior high school students. It is a one to two year program in which students learn research techniques. It is composed of two sections. The first year of the program, AP Capstone Seminar, is an introduction to research, where students chose a topic to find academic sources on and analyze the sources. The second year, AP Capstone Research, gives students the opportunity to conduct a year-long research project, in which students present original data or designs. .
My AP Capstone Seminar Experience
My AP Capstone Seminar Experience
AP Capstone Seminar is composed of two performance tasks, each with two subtasks, with four assessments in total. One of these tasks is a collaborative task, where teams of students work together to develop a presentation.
The Individual Research Report (IRR) is a component of the collaborative portion of the project, although this portion is completely individual. I chose to do my IRR on the Scientific and Ethical perspectives of various methods of incarceration, which were combined with the other two IRRs in order to create the Team Multimedia Presentation (TMP).
The Team Multimedia Presentation combines the research of three Individual Research Reports to create a presentation that combines various perspectives on the same topic. Our TMP was on the topic of various methods of incarceration, and was created with the efforts of myself, Mai Dinh, and Stephen Stec.
The Individual Written Argument (IWA) is a task in which the student is given a series of documents and finds a connecting topic, and develops an argument based on this topic. My selected topic was using social technologies to enable people to solve global problems. We were also required to find external sources to complete the argument.
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