2016 AP Stats Overview Jared Derksen CMC AP

2016 AP Stats Overview Jared Derksen

CMC AP Stats Lunch Meeting Saturday Palm Canyon, Hilton 12: 15 -1: 00 Please grab your lunch and join us! *Q & A *AP Stats announcements *Guest Speaker: Roxy Peck!!!! *Former chief reader, Cal Poly SLO statistics professor, emeritus *Publisher give-aways

Today 6 questions 6 rubrics Statistical thinking Standing on the shoulders of giants!

The AP Stats Exam 40 Multiple Choice 50% MC + 50% FRQ 90 Minutes #6 is the Investigative Task 6 Free Response Questions #6 is worth 25% of the FRQ score 90 Minutes Formula sheet and calculator for all

You Don’t Need to Write This Down!

The Exam Average cut-scores 2012 -2015 5 = 68% 4 = 54% 3 = 41% 2 = 30%

Robin’s Tips

#1 Summaries, not data. Be thorough Be specific Mantras…useful to a point

Pick your major! #6 The Investigative Task aka The Star Trek problem

OK? P PEP = 2

Simpson’s Paradox Don’t wait! Look at the last 3 years. And ’ 98. Perseverance in problemsolving How routine are your tests?

#2 Apple/Choco-Zuties Name!? ! Careful Ho/Ha Conditions Experiments vs. surveys Say the obvious, with data!

#3 Alzheimer’s & Smoking Frappy’s galore! Avoid the pronouns A real world assessment?

#4 Super-Igniters Scramble!

#5 Think about it! Verb tense matters Teach procedures mrmathman. com/stuff Inference template Questions that are NOT procedures!

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