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Faculty members selected as AP Readers
Mar 13, 2008 9:38 AM
By Tannika King - Faculty
Three Upper School teachers will serve as AP Readers for the College Board’s Advanced Placement Program in 2008. This June, Bob McGraw, David Powell and Craig Schmidt will join 11,000 college faculty and AP teachers from around the world in evaluating and scoring approximately 10 million free-response answers on AP exams.
“The careful evaluation of students’ work by qualified professionals is one of the most important aspects of the AP Program,” said Trevor Packer, vice president of the Advanced Placement Program. “The program’s acknowledged success is due to an evaluation and scoring process that reflects the high standards of faculty members who, by virtue of their experience and expertise, have appropriate student performance expectations within their respective disciplines.”
AP Readers must currently teach the AP course for which they are evaluating exams in a face-to-face classroom setting and have at least three years of experience teaching that course. Scoring will take place at five different locations around the country in June. McGraw and Powell will be stationed in Louisville, Ky. Schmidt will be in Ft. Collins, Colo.
“First, we will be trained in grading this year’s essays, then grade for seven days until all essays are completed,” said Powell, Thatcher Chair of English, who has served as an AP Reader five times previously. “Reading exams helps me to better teach the AP English course here at Darlington, and also allows me to keep up with a network of other professionals who share ideas about teaching.”
Schmidt has served as an AP Reader since 1992; McGraw, for the past three years.
“The careful evaluation of students’ work by qualified professionals is one of the most important aspects of the AP Program,” said Trevor Packer, vice president of the Advanced Placement Program. “The program’s acknowledged success is due to an evaluation and scoring process that reflects the high standards of faculty members who, by virtue of their experience and expertise, have appropriate student performance expectations within their respective disciplines.”
AP Readers must currently teach the AP course for which they are evaluating exams in a face-to-face classroom setting and have at least three years of experience teaching that course. Scoring will take place at five different locations around the country in June. McGraw and Powell will be stationed in Louisville, Ky. Schmidt will be in Ft. Collins, Colo.
“First, we will be trained in grading this year’s essays, then grade for seven days until all essays are completed,” said Powell, Thatcher Chair of English, who has served as an AP Reader five times previously. “Reading exams helps me to better teach the AP English course here at Darlington, and also allows me to keep up with a network of other professionals who share ideas about teaching.”
Schmidt has served as an AP Reader since 1992; McGraw, for the past three years.
