My Pre-Exam Words to Students
We're now less than a week away from the AP Stats Exam. For your students, this may be the best of times: excitement, hope, and the culminating satisfaction of completing the year. In some ways, this may also be the worst of times: exhaustion, nerves, and the worry that this 180-minute testing session won't provide a truly accurate measure of all they've learned this year.
Each year, observing these sorts of mixed feelings in my classroom, I write a letter to my students. In the letter, I emphasize the importance of the exam. But I also emphasize that it's just that: an exam. It's not a measure of who they are or what they're capable of doing. It's a measure of what they know - and a good but still imperfect one at that. I've included this year's version below. Here’s the direct link. Feel free to steal it, use some parts, make it your own, and share with your students.
Whomever you are and wherever you're reading this from, good luck to your students on this year's exam. I hope you've found our materials useful in preparing your students. More importantly, I hope they've been helpful in preparing your students to think critically and compassionately about the world around them - now and in the years to come ... when the AP Exam is but a distant memory.
Let's skew it!