Decisions and Tensions: Summative Assessments in PBL Advanced Placement Classes

Autor/in	Cooper, Susan Elizabeth
Titel	Decisions and Tensions: Summative Assessments in PBL Advanced Placement Classes
Quelle	(2017), (42 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Advanced Placement; Summative Evaluation; Protocol Analysis; Grades (Scholastic); Poverty; Disadvantaged Schools; College Preparation; Urban Schools; High School Students; Learner Engagement; Decision Making; Science Instruction; Equal Education; Educational Opportunities; Environmental Education; Report Cards; Student Motivation; Teacher Attitudes; High School Teachers + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Notenspiegel; Armut; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Berichtszeugnis; Schulische Motivation; Lehrerverhalten; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende
Abstract	This study examines how teachers navigate tensions between communicating expectations for college level work and student motivation as they determined summative grades in an AP Environmental Science course. Semi-structured interviews and a think-aloud protocol were conducted while teachers in poverty-impacted urban high schools determined final semester grades. Analysis centered on the ways these teachers negotiate the tensions between college preparation (rigor) and keeping students engaged (rather than discouraged) as they determine report-card grades. Teachers in the study showed differences in how they negotiated these decisions and tensions as they grappled with delivering high level content to students choosing to take on the challenge of an AP Science course. This study also revealed the tensions and negotiations involved in the strategic decisions teachers must make while balancing the rigor of a college curriculum with providing equity of access to future learning opportunities in higher education for poverty impacted students. Implications for how to support teachers' summative assessment practices for those who have open access to their AP courses are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01