Q: Can a group of students submit the same video?
Q: Can students collaborate on the Written Responses?
Q: Can students build off of previous code/projects they may have done for other classes?
Q: Who can the student partner with, for the collaborative portion of the Create Task?
Q: May a group of 3 students work together?
Q: How should students address their partnership in their written response?
Q: For the create task, what do the students submit online to the digital portfolio?
Q: Are students allowed to choose programming topics that their teachers have discussed in class or used in practice performance tasks?
For the Create performance task: Students must be able to claim that the program code and the written response they are submitting is their own. Students can use code segments that are not originally developed by them provided they have included appropriate attributions for these code segments.
Students should not submit any written responses that were used in practice performance tasks in class.
For additional information, please see the FAQ: What should teachers do if they notice a student has neglected to cite their sources?
The College Board has provided samples of student work on the Performance Tasks. You may share these samples with your students. These will give you examples of how each of the students responded to the abstraction component of the task.
Q: Can a group of students submit the same video?
One of the requirements for students in the Create task states: “You are required to: create a video that displays the running of your program and demonstrates its functionality”.
Each student must create their own individual video that illustrates the program’s intended purpose. In addition, all written responses must be their own individual responses as well.
No.
Q: Can a group of students work on the same Algorithm/ Abstraction (as part of their response to prompts 2b and 2c) and each write about it individually?
No. Each must have a different Algorithm/ Abstraction for their response to prompts 2c and 2d.
Q: May students use code from other sources (such as another student, the Internet, API’s, or their teacher) in their program?
Yes, as long as it includes a citation in some way, such as a comment, that this code came from a student/the Internet/ the teacher/ etc.
Q: Can students build off of previous code/projects they may have done for other classes?
A: Yes, but they must write new code for the algorithm and abstraction that were not part of a previously graded assignment.
Q: Who can the student partner with, for the collaborative portion of the Create Task.
Q: May a group of 3 students work together?
Yes. Each student must provide a different algorithm / abstraction that they developed on their own for prompts 2c and 2d.
Note:
For prompt 2c: students must select an algorithm (that integrates 2 or more commonly used or new algorithms) that they developed on their own to use as part of their response to this prompt.
For prompt 2d: Students must select an abstraction that they developed on their own to use as part of their response to this prompt.
For more information about the requirements for these prompts, please refer to the instructions in the AP CSP Course and Exam Description and the Create Task rubric.
Q: How should students address their partnership in their written response? I've seen conflicting answers around on how students should address the partnership in their written response. I've seen some places say "Students shouldn't and can't say 'We did this' or 'We found this'" but other places have said that's fine and that not acknowledging the other partner can even be seen as disingenuous. Are students allowed to say "we did this and we solved the problem this way" or do they have to write the responses as if the partner doesn't exist
Collaboration in the development of the program is allowed and encouraged, but is not required. However, there are requirements that parts of the program must completed without a partner. For instance, the written response to 2b, scored in Row 2 of the Scoring Guidelines must "clearly identify at least one point in the development of the program that was completed independently."
Furthermore, the algorithm in 2c and abstraction in 2d must be developed independently.
Q: For the create task, what do the students submit online to the digital portfolio?
A: Questions 2a-2d are answered in one document (there is a template). Their program code will be submitted in a separate PDF.
Q: Will a student lose points if they narrate their video and also provide a written description? I see that it says "or" in the wording.
A: This should not be a problem.
Q: What programming language is recommended for students to use to complete the Create — Applications from Ideas performance task?
Students are allowed to develop any program they choose (e.g., an app, a game, art design, etc.) with their choice of programming language to meet all the criteria in the Create performance task.
A list of suggested programming languages that were used when piloting this course can be found in the instruction section of theAP CSP Course and Exam Description. Though this is not a comprehensive list, we suggest it as a point of reference to begin determining what will work best for a student.