Interpreting the
AP Instructional
Planning Report
AP Online Score Report System
Goals:
 To provide educators with AP Exam data in a dynamic and
environmentally-friendly format
 To provide authorized AP teachers with direct access to their students’
scores
 To provide teachers with earlier access to their AP Instructional Planning
Reports so they can plan curriculum adjustments in a more timely manner
 To provide administrators with aggregate data, disaggregate data, usage
reports, & options for updating student data
Steps to View Reports – 1. Login
Requires an Educational
Professional account User
ID and Password
Steps to View Reports – 2. Terms of Use
Reports are designed to provide information
about the performance of your AP students
to guide curricular/instructional planning
Reports are NOT to:
 evaluate faculty
 rank institutions
 share with other institutions, students, or
families
*Will only appear once annually, the first time you wish to
access the reports
AP Online Score Report System - Access
 AP Course Audit teachers will automatically be given access to
the following reports as an Online Score Report teacher:
 AP Instructional Planning Report
 AP Instructional Planning Report – by section
 Subject Score Report
 AP Course Audit teachers may be restricted, by administrators,
to receive only summary data in the AP Instructional Planning
Report
New Online Score Reports & Features
Three new reports are now available for school administrators:
– Five-Year School Score Summary
– AP Scholar Roster
– Student Datafile
Additional enhancements:
– Multiple years’ reports are now available. Your dashboard contains a
dropdown to select the exam year (i.e., 2010, 2011, etc.).
– You can now search/filter the student score reports by student name or
AP number.
AP Online Score Report System – Users
Report Name and Description
Who Can See It
School
Administrator
AP Teacher
District
Administrator
AP Scholar Roster (new this year):
Roster showing all AP students who earned an AP Scholar
Award, and their AP Exam scores.
Yes
N/A
Yes
Five-Year School Score Summary (new this year):
This report contains five years of data at the school, state
and global levels. Also provides subject-specific
summaries of total exams, scores and mean scores.
Yes
N/A
Yes
Student Datafile (new this year):
A downloadable .csv file containing student score report data
for each AP student who tested this year. This information
can be uploaded to other systems, or used for internal
analysis and planning. This is the same data previously
available in the CD that schools and districts could order for a
fee.
Yes
N/A
Yes
District Summary Reports (new this year):
Similar to the paper summary reports districts have ordered
for a fee in the past. Three separate summary reports are
available: one by school, one with group comparisons (state,
national, global), and one by student demographics.
N/A
Yes
Yes
AP Online Score Report System – Users (cont.)
Report Name and Description
Who Can See It
School
Administrator
AP Teacher
District
Administrator
Current Year Score Summary:
Report listing the total numbers of each AP score (1 to 5) for
each AP subject offered at a school.
Yes
N/A
Yes
School Score Roster:
Roster showing all AP students who tested during a specific
exam year, and their AP scores. This report is customizable
to display these students' scores from previous years.
Yes
N/A
Yes
AP Equity and Excellence Report:
Report displaying the percentages of a school's entire 10th,
11th and 12th grade classes who scored a 3 or higher on at
least one AP Exam and the percentage of the senior class
that scored a 3 or higher on at least one AP Exam during high
school.
Yes
N/A
Yes
Subject Score Roster:
Roster for each AP subject listing all students and their AP
scores.
Yes
Yes
Yes
AP Instructional Planning Report:
Subject-specific report showing the performance of students
on the multiple-choice and free-response sections and on
specific topics within that AP Exam, compared to all students.
Yes
Yes
Yes
AP Online Score Report System – Users (cont.)
Report Name and Description
Who Can See It
School
Administrator
AP Teacher
District
Administrator
Student Score Report:
Individual, cumulative report for each AP student in a school,
listing scores for each AP Exam taken by that student.
Yes
N/A
N/A
College and University Totals:
Report listing which colleges and universities received the AP
scores of a school's students.
Yes
N/A
Yes
http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/ap/scores/online-score-reporting
Steps to View Reports - 3a. Select Sections

Schools with multiple teachers for a specific
subject can use section codes to
disaggregate student data by teacher
– Benefit: teachers get a true view of
their students’ performance

Will only appear
– once annually, the first time you access
the reports
– if school designated section on Student
Answer Sheet (only sections used on
Answer sheet are displayed)

Teachers can only pick subjects for which
they are authorized
Steps to View Reports - 3b. Select
Organization / Role
Users with multiple
organizations or multiple
roles will need to select
accordingly
Users with multiple roles will
initially be logged in as
Administrators
Starting point to access all
reports and system functions
Personalized to the user’s role
organization
The same data as previous
paper reports but with additional
features offered by web media
Choose to view or customize
report
Reports run real-time
AP Scholar Roster (New in 2011)
•
•
Roster showing all AP students who earned an AP Scholar Award, and their AP
Exam scores. Available for multiple exam years, starting with 2011.
Paper Scholar rosters will no longer be mailed to schools.
Five-Year School Score Summary (New in 2011)
This report contains five years of data at the school, state and global levels.
Also provides subject-specific summaries of total exams, scores and mean scores.
your
school
your
state
global
Current Year Score Summary
Provides the total
numbers of each AP
score (1 to 5) for
each AP subject
offered at your school
School Score Roster
Cumulative roster displays all AP students who took AP Exams in
2010 and their AP scores.
The report can be customized to display these students’ scores from
previous years.
AP Equity and Excellence
Percentage of your school’s entire 10th, 11th and 12th grade
classes who scored a 3 or higher on at least one AP Exam
Percentage of each school's senior class that scored a 3 or
higher on at least one AP Exam during high school.
Subject Score Roster
Roster for each AP subject listing all students & their AP scores
AP Instructional Planning Report (Pg 1)
• The top bar graph and chart show how this group
of students performed overall versus the global
population.
• Bottom two bar graphs and charts show student
performance on multiple-choice and freeresponse sections.
AP Instructional Planning Report (Pg 2)
Provides a detailed view of
students’ performance on specific
content categories on the multiplechoice & free-response sections
•
Global Mean - the average scores of all AP students worldwide on specific
content categories within the exam
•
Group Mean – the average scores of your students for specific content
categories within the exam
•
Right-hand side shows how your students fall into global quartiles. Grouping of
students in the higher/lower fourths indicates higher/lower performance than
the total population.
Student Score Report
Individual, cumulative report for each AP student in your school, listing scores
for each AP Exam taken by that student.
College and University Totals
Lists the colleges
and universities that
received your
students' AP scores
Student Datafile (New in 2011)
• A downloadable .csv file containing student score report data
for each AP student.
• This information can be uploaded to other systems, or used for
internal analysis and planning.
• Same as the data that were previously available in the CD that
schools ordered for a fee. (Scores on CD are no longer
available.)
• Instructions for using and formatting the file are available in
the help text and at www.collegeboard.org/apdatafile.
Contact your Coordinator/Principal if:
 You see information that should be corrected:
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Students missing from the report or erroneously on the report
Student grade level
Students names (AP Services can only correct nicknames or egregious mistakes)
Same student is listed under two separate AP Numbers
Student score is missing or incomplete
 You are switching schools or retiring
 You are a Department Head and would like to receive reports for subjects
you do not teach
Help Section of Site
Should be helpful in a
variety of situations
Highly thorough with a
wide array of technical
support / Frequently
Asked Questions
Interpreting the AP
Instructional Planning
Report:
Implications for Instruction
“We can have facts without thinking
but we cannot have thinking without
facts.”
— John Dewey, 1857–1952
AP Instructional Planning Report (Pg 1)
• The top bar graph and chart show how this group
of students performed overall versus the global
population.
• Bottom two bar graphs and charts show student
performance on multiple-choice and freeresponse sections.
AP Instructional Planning Report (Pg 2)
Provides a detailed view of
students’ performance on specific
content categories on the multiplechoice & free-response sections
•
Global Mean - the average scores of all AP students worldwide on specific
content categories within the exam
•
Group Mean – the average scores of your students for specific content
categories within the exam
•
Right-hand side shows how your students fall into global quartiles. Grouping of
students in the higher/lower fourths indicates higher/lower performance than
the total population.
AP Instructional Planning Report…At A Glance
WOW’s!
WHOA’s!
 50% of my
students scored a 5
 My students’
FRQ scores
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Performance on Multiple Choice
DATA
 Content Area:
Molecules & Cells
ANALYSIS
 Based on the data, are students in your
group successful in this content area?
 Number of Questions:
 Global Mean:
13.5
 Group Mean:
15.7
26
 # of Students in Each Group:
8 students
 Third Fourth: 1 student
 Second Fourth: 4 students
 Lowest Fourth: 3 students
 Highest Fourth:
 What is the evidence to support your
assessment of success?
 Evidence from APIP report?
 Evidence other than APIP report?
 Classroom activities
 Classroom assessments
Performance on Free Response
DATA
 Question/Problem (Topic):
ANALYSIS
Biological
Roles of Bacteria
 Maximum # of Points Possible:
 Global Mean:
 Based on the data, are students in your
group successful in this content area?
10
4.3
 What is the evidence to support your
 Group Mean:
4.1
assessment of success?
 Evidence from APIP report?
 # of Students in Each Group:
3 students
 Third Fourth: 4 students
 Second Fourth: 4 students
 Lowest Fourth: 5 students
 Highest Fourth:
 Evidence other than APIP report?
 Classroom activities
 Classroom assessments
Instructional Planning & Practice
• What implications does analyzing your APIPR
have for your instructional practice?
Instructional Planning & Practice
• What limitations, if any, do you foresee with
analyzing AP Instructional Planning Report
data?
Instructional Planning & Practice
• What could you do to overcome these
limitations?
Forward Thinking…Short Term
 I want to revisit my unit/lessons/activities/assessments for the following
concept:
 Terms and definitions necessary for grasping this concept include:
 Things I can do easily and quickly to tackle this concept include:
 Skills my students already use in/out of the classroom
 Resources that could be useful in incorporating this concept
Forward Thinking…Long Term
 Long-term plans to restructure my course to better address this concept
include:
 Skills my students already use in/out of the classroom
 Resources that could be useful in incorporating this concept
 I foresee these challenges….AND possible solutions:
Interpreting AP Scores
If you have observed…
Most scores in a subject are 1’s and 2’s:
o Review the course content against the published Course Description on AP Central to ensure that
students are being taught what the exams measure. This is especially true if students whose
classroom scores are high do not achieve at least average scores on AP Exams.
o Consider the opportunities you have had for Professional Development and factor in student
readiness (motivation, reading and writing skills, prior course work).
Most AP Scores in a subject are 4’s and 5’s:
o It could be possible that the selection criteria for the class are overly rigorous. Consider opening the
class to more students.
Scores on the multiple-choice and free-response sections of the AP Exams are widely
divergent:
o Implement practice sessions on test skills for multiple-choice exams, or more assignments during the
school year that emphasize writing and organizational skills.
Questions?