Johanna Sherman

This is the twitter account for our AP and Publication classes. Let's try 2 find ideas 2 keep informed & engaged. RTs do not mean agreement. Linked 2 @jmdstexas

[Johanna Sherman @ShermanpapersTX]

Joy Harjo Becomes The First Native American U.S. Poet Laureate https://t.co/W5K3NrylMb

[CommonLit @CommonLit]

Why CommonLit will always be free for teachers and students
https://t.co/0v7eoiEmtA
#edtech #literacy #nonprofit #free

[College Board @CollegeBoard]

Personal Progress checks that help AP teachers monitor student performance are coming soon. https://t.co/Q9qG0No8r4

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

The 2019 AP Human Geography scores: 5: 10.7%; 4: 18.3%; 3: 20.1%; 2: 16.9%; 1: 33.9%.

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

So when a question is tough for many AP students, it is usually tough for many college students as well, and AP students just need to earn the same points on such questions as college students who received Cs, Bs, As – those are the point requirements for 3s, 4s, 5s.

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

Overall, this year’s AP Physics 1 students demonstrated significantly stronger understanding and skills than prior groups; accordingly, there’s a significant increase in the percentage of students earning 3s, 4s, and 5s, the highest scores yet on this exam.

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

AP Physics 2 free-response: students triumphed over Q2 on circuits. Nearly 20% earned all 12/12 points possible on it. Nice work. The most difficult question was Q4 on optics/fluids/thermal; the mean score was 3.7 out of 10 pts possible. https://t.co/oxO8IZwufC

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

AP Physics 2 multiple-choice: students demonstrated solid work on “wave models and applications” and “conservation laws” and strong skills in “data analysis and understanding.” Lowest scores were on “interactions between objects” and “plans/implements data collection.”

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

This is the 5th year of the AP Physics 2 exam, & each year, student learning & achievement has increased, from ~8% scores of 5 in 2014 to ~12.6% scores of 5 this year. In other words: this year’s AP Physics 2 students have achieved the highest % of scores of 3+ yet for this exam.

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism performance is slightly less strong this year than in 2018, but is still very impressive, a higher percentage of 3+ scores than from any of the earlier years of the decade (2010-2017).

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

AP Computer Science A multiple-choice: students scored very well across every topic, but especially on programming fundamentals (of course) and on logic / software engineering / recursion questions.

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

Another record broken this year, this time by the AP Computer Science A teachers and students, achieving the highest scores yet in that subject. This is especially impressive since those teachers also provided access to ~5,000 more students this year.

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

For AP English Lit Q3, students overwhelmingly chose to write about The Great Gatsby. Other frequent choices: Brave New World; To Kill a Mockingbird; Frankenstein; The Awakening; 1984; Hamlet; Invisible Man.

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

For the first time I can remember, AP English Lit students scored about as well on the poetry analysis essay (Q1: Page’s “The Landlady”) as they did on the prose analysis (Q2: Howells - excerpt from The Rise of Silas Lapham). Nice job! https://t.co/EnVtMqwWfa

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

AP English Literature students demonstrated significantly stronger skills of literary analysis this year than in 2018, increasing the % of students scoring 3+ by several points. Kudos to AP teachers for reversing a multi-year decline in literary analysis. Keep up the good work.

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

AP Physics C: Mechanics free-response results: in both sets, question 3 was somewhat more challenging for students than 1 & 2. Set 2 was slightly easier than Set 1, so Set 2 students must earn 3 more points than Set 1 students to earn a score of 3+.

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

Yet another subject breaks a record this year: AP Physics C: Mechanics students have earned the highest scores this decade, ~36% (!) scoring a 5, compared to ~27% a decade ago. More than 80% scored 3+. Congrats and thanks. Our infrastructure, current and future, needs you.

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

Many AP World History students really struggled with the short answer questions: Q1 (34% scored 0); Q2 (15% scored 0); Q3 (27% scored 0); Q4 (39% scored 0). To boost the % of exams earning credit, more students will need to be able to answer these as college students do.

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

This year’s AP World History performance is very similar to last year’s. It’s remarkable that AP teachers maintained that level of performance while providing ~20,000 more students with the opportunity to take this college-level course.

[Trevor Packer @AP_Trevor]

AP English Language & Composition essays: students generally earned higher scores on Q1 (the synthesis essay), then on Q3 (the argument essay), with lowest performance, as usual, on Q2 (the analysis essay).