Throughout the school year, they are given the opportunity to absorb the material through the help of teachers, classmates, assignments, projects, labs and textbooks. Students taking the rough/final draft versions of the tests may have higher grades than those taking closed-book tests, even if they don’t understand the material as well. This contrast becomes more pronounced when the same course is taught by a teacher who uses the rough/final draft test format and another one who doesn’t. In addition, they may feel discouraged after putting in hours of effort only to see their peers easily achieve equal or higher scores.
These students are forced to work much harder in order to achieve the same or lower scores as students in classes that use the rough/final draft format. This line of thinking, however, raises an important question: How long will the era of remote testing continue to affect in-person education? In particular, are we never going to have proper, closed-book in-person examinations as we did before the pandemic?Ĭlearly, this is unfair to the students in other AP-level classes who are under stricter test policies. The rough/final draft policy intends to help level the playing field between hybrid and remote students. Last year in remote learning, it was common knowledge that cheating was extremely prevalent. While such a system may appear to be helpful to students already stressed out with other classes and extracurriculars, it diminishes the primary objective of academic classes: to teach students to absorb the knowledge taught in class and independently apply that content in a testing environment. Students complete a “rough draft” of their test in class for participation credit, and have the opportunity to revise this version at home in an open-book, open-note system and later turn in that “final draft” for test credit. Several math teachers in AP Calculus AB and AP Statistics, however, are now adopting a rough/final draft system for tests in order to ease the transition between remote and in-person learning. With in-person learning beginning to resemble what school looked like before the pandemic, it would be expected that testing would revert to normal, closed-book testing. Get feedback before you spend time editing.ĭark Mode, Word Count Goals, & Settings - Fit Rough Draft to your liking with simple settings, whether you want to start with a blank white sheet, or get lost in the dark.This new system would not only worsen existing grade inflation but also disincentivize proper learning habits - a skill required for standardized testing. Publishing - Want some feedback on your rough draft? Test your ideas in their rawest form with a community of writers and editors who understand your work is still a rough draft. (But we recommend Clean Export to get your rough ideas polished and ready to publish!)
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