====== Week 13: Assessment, AP CS Case Study, and AP CS Exam ======

===== Objectives =====


===== Readings for Class Discussion =====

==== Readings to Skim ====

  * Assessment Training Institute.  Pearson [[http://ati.pearson.com/|website]].
  * Chappuis (2011).  //Classroom Assessment: Every Student a Learner//, book chapter.  See Blackboard Learn site (Week 13).
  * College Board "Computer Science A" [[http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_compscia.html|website]].
    * Course Description (PDF document) is available at the Blackboard Learn site (Week 13).
    * AP CS [[http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/compsci_a/exam.html|exam information]].
    * AP CS [[http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/student/testing/ap/compsci_a/ap07_gridworld_studmanual_appends_v3.pdf|GridWorld Case Study]].

==== Extra/Optional Readings ====

  * Ormrod, J. E. (2011). [[http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Essentials-of-Educational-Psychology-Big-Ideas-to-Guide-Effective-Teaching-3E/9780131367272.page|Assessment Strategies]]
  * Bloom's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_Taxonomy|Taxonomy]]
  * Nørmark (2008). [[http://www.springerlink.com/content/2267261T17202K77|Mini Project Programming Exam]]. (Already discussed in Team Projects.)

===== Topics =====

  * General assessment techniques (API and the Chappuis chapter).
  * College Board AP assessment (the compsci subject exam and case study).

===== Lab ======

  * AP CS: GridWorld
  * AP CS: Exam