What is AP Seminar?
AP Seminar is a year-long course in which students analyze a variety of academic and real-world topics from diverse perspectives. Students will analyze original sources and synthesize them to contribute their own, new understanding of the materials.
Basically, students will examine the arguments of others in order to improve their own argumentation.
Basically, students will examine the arguments of others in order to improve their own argumentation.
What makes up my AP Seminar score?
There are two separate answers to this. First, let's look at your AP score. There are three components that will add up to your AP score. A team multi-media research presentation and defense will count for 20% of your AP score. An individual research project and oral presentation and defense will make up 35% of the AP score. Finally, an end-of-course AP exam will contribute the final 45% of the AP score.
Since the performance outcomes are the AP score and the instructor is the primary AP grader for those tasks, the school grade CANNOT include any sort of qualitative grade directly related to those two tasks. The course grade, then, will consist of graded progress and reflections connected to those two tasks as well as class activities and projects that will build the skills needed to excel on the performance tasks.
Since the performance outcomes are the AP score and the instructor is the primary AP grader for those tasks, the school grade CANNOT include any sort of qualitative grade directly related to those two tasks. The course grade, then, will consist of graded progress and reflections connected to those two tasks as well as class activities and projects that will build the skills needed to excel on the performance tasks.
Okay, I really like to know EVERYTHING. Where can I find more information?
Here is the AP Seminar Course and Exam Description. It is the tool that guides everything.
| ap-seminar-course-and-exam-description__1_.pdf |
What if I still have questions?
See Mr. Teverbaugh in room 11G or email him at rteverbaugh@perryschools.org.