I took the new Science Practices from the College Board’s Draft Course and Exam Description for AP Physics 1 and 2, and turned them in to a draft of a rubric for assessing work in a Standards-Based Grading environment. The changes to AP Physics take place for the 2024-2025 school year. In the 2023-2024 school year, there are no changes to the AP Physics CEDs. I am just trying to get ahead!

This Draft CED has since been taken off of the CB website, so I can’t link to it. But look for emails and announcements with the final new CED, or at least a revised new CED to be released in the fall of 2024 for the 2025 first Exam date.

Previously I used content-based learning standards and created a rubric for each assignment, using a set scale, like “Mastery-Proficient-Developing-Beginning-No Evidence” or “Meets Standard-Approaches Standard-Doesn’t Meet Standard.” This meant that I was often using a mental checklist of what met the standard, since I didn’t always have time to write up a Google Doc with specific criteria for every assignment. I can see where this rubric might make things easier. The standards could be the same for every unit. The standards would be repeated every unit, and become familiar to the students, so the AP Skills will become familiar. I just need to tell the students when they will be assessed on each skill.

The new Rubric is below. The idea is to tell students the codes they would be working on during each assignment, and each assessment. I need to look to see what other teachers have done in a similar vein. Most of what I have seen is learning standards that is solely content-based. Maybe this won’t work? Please share your thoughts. If nothing else, I’m pretty sure I can use this for assessing lab skills.