INCLUDES Course framework Instructional information Portfolio exam information AP ® 2-D Art and Design 3-D Art and Design Drawing COURSE AND EXAM DESCRIPTION Effective Fall 2022 AP Art and ® Design COURSE AND EXAM DESCRIPTION Effective Fall 2022 AP COURSE AND EXAM DESCRIPTIONS ARE UPDATED PERIODICALLY Please visit AP Central (apcentral.org) to determine whether a more recent course and exam description is available. About College Board College Board is a mission-driven not-for-profit organization that connects students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, College Board was created to expand access to higher education. Today, the membership association is made up of over 6,000 of the world’s leading educational institutions and is dedicated to promoting excellence and equity in education.
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Contents v Acknowledgments 1 About AP 4 About the AP Art and Design Program 4 College Course Equivalent 4 Prerequisites COURSE FRAMEWORK 9 Introduction 11 Course Framework Overview 11 Course Skills 14 Course Framework PORTFOLIO EXAM INFORMATION 31 AP Art and Design Portfolio Exam Structure 32 Selected Works Section 32 Sustained Investigation Section 35 Types of AP Art and Design Portfolio Exams 35 AP 2-D Art and Design Portfolio Exam 36 AP Drawing Portfolio Exam 36 AP 3-D Art and Design Portfolio Exam 37 Overlap Among Portfolio Types 38 Artistic Integrity and Plagiarism 39 Preparing and Submitting AP Art and Design Portfolio Exams SCORING GUIDELINES 40 Sustained Investigation Rubric 44 Selected Works Rubric THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK. Acknowledgments College Board would like to acknowledge the following committee members, consultants, and reviewers for their assistance with and commitment to the development of this course. All individuals and their affiliations were current at the time of contribution. Jeffrey Baykal-Rollins, Greens Farms Academy, CT Katie Campbell, Alta High School, Sandy UT Dale Clifford, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA Jan Feldhausen, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI Colleen Harrigan, Clarkstown South High School, West Nyack, NY Ken Horii, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Lisa Kriner, Berea College, KY Paul Jeanes, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL Celestin Joseph, Dillard Center for the Arts, Ft.
Lauderdale, FL Amirra Malak, Hood River Valley High School, Hood River, OR Marilyn Proctor-Givens, Lincoln High School, Tallahassee, FL Libby Rowe, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX Dorsey Sammataro, Holy Innocents Episcopal School, Atlanta, GA Greg Skaggs, Troy State University, Troy, AL Connie Jimenez Zammett, Rockville High School, MD College Board Staff Rebecca Stone-Danahy, Director, AP Art and Design Content Development Sara Hunter, Associate Director, AP Curricular Publications SPECIAL THANKS John R. Williamson Wendy Free Liam Julian AP Art and Design Course and Exam Description V.1 | v Return to Table of Contents © 2022 College Board THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK. About AP College Board’s Advanced Placement® Program (AP®) We encourage the elimination of barriers that restrict enables willing and academically prepared students access to AP for students from ethnic, racial, and to pursue college-level studies—with the opportunity socioeconomic groups that have been traditionally to earn college credit, advanced placement, or underserved. College Board also believes that both—while still in high school.
Through AP courses all students should have access to academically in 38 subjects, each culminating in a challenging challenging coursework before they enroll in exam, students learn to think critically, construct solid AP classes, which can prepare them for AP success. It is arguments, and see many sides of an issue—skills only through a commitment to equitable preparation that prepare them for college and beyond. Taking and access that true equity and excellence can AP courses demonstrates to college admission officers be achieved. that students have sought the most challenging curriculum available to them, and research indicates Offering AP Courses: that students who score a 3 or higher on an AP Exam typically experience greater academic success in The AP Course Audit college and are more likely to earn a college degree The AP Program unequivocally supports the principle than non-AP students.
Each AP teacher’s syllabus that each school implements its own curriculum that will is evaluated and approved by faculty from some of enable students to develop the content understandings the nation’s leading colleges and universities, and and skills described in the course framework. AP Exams are developed and scored by college faculty The AP Program has a short list of curricular and and experienced AP teachers. Most four-year colleges resource requirements that must be fulfilled before and universities in the United States grant credit, a school can label a course “Advanced Placement” advanced placement, or both on the basis of successful or “AP.” Schools wishing to offer AP courses must AP Exam scores; more than 3,300 institutions worldwide participate in the AP Course Audit, a process through annually receive AP scores. which AP teachers’ course materials are reviewed by college faculty.
The AP Course Audit was created AP Course Development to provide teachers and administrators with clear In an ongoing effort to maintain alignment with best guidelines on curricular and resource requirements practices in college-level learning, AP courses and for AP courses and to help colleges and universities exams emphasize challenging, research-based validate courses marked “AP” on students’ transcripts. curricula aligned with higher education expectations. This process ensures that AP teachers’ courses meet or exceed the curricular and resource expectations that Individual teachers are responsible for designing their college and secondary school faculty have established own curriculum for AP courses, selecting appropriate for college-level courses. college-level readings, assignments, and resources.
This course and exam description presents the content The AP Course Audit form is submitted by the and skills that are the focus of the corresponding AP teacher and the school principal (or designated college course and that appear on the AP Exam. administrator) to confirm awareness and understanding of the curricular and resource requirements. A syllabus or course outline, detailing how course requirements Enrolling Students: are met, is submitted by the AP teacher for review by Equity and Access college faculty. College Board strongly encourages educators to Please visit collegeboard.org/apcourseaudit for more make equitable access a guiding principle for their information to support the preparation and submission AP programs by giving all willing and academically of materials for the AP Course Audit.
prepared students the opportunity to participate in AP. AP Art and Design Course and Exam Description V.1 | 1 Return to Table of Contents © 2022 College Board How the AP Program faculty member serves as Chief Faculty Consultant and, with the help of AP Readers in leadership positions, Is Developed maintains the accuracy of the scoring standards. Scores The scope of content for an AP course and exam is on the performance assessments are weighted and derived from an analysis of hundreds of syllabi and converted into a composite AP score on a 1–5 scale. course offerings of colleges and universities.
Using AP Exams are not norm-referenced or graded on a curve. this research and data, a committee of college faculty Instead, they are criterion-referenced, which means that and expert AP teachers work within the scope of every student who meets the criteria for an AP score of the corresponding college course to articulate what 2, 3, 4, or 5 will receive that score, no matter how many students should know and be able to do upon the students that is. The criteria for the number of points completion of the AP course. The resulting course students must earn on the AP Exam to receive scores framework is the heart of this course and exam of 3, 4, or 5—the scores that research consistently description and serves as a blueprint of the content and validates for credit and placement purposes—include: skills that can appear on an AP Exam.
§ The number of points successful college students The AP Test Development Committees are responsible earn when their professors administer AP Exam for developing each AP Exam, ensuring the exam tasks to them. questions and/or through-course performance assessments are aligned to the course framework. The § The number of points researchers have found to AP Exam development process is a multiyear endeavor; be predictive that an AP student will succeed when all AP Exams undergo extensive review, revision, placed into a subsequent, higher-level college course. piloting, and analysis to ensure that questions, tasks, § Achievement-level descriptions formulated by and rubrics are accurate, fair, and valid, and that there is college faculty who review each AP Exam task.
an appropriate spread of difficulty across the questions. Committee members are selected to represent a variety Using and Interpreting AP Scores of perspectives and institutions (public and private, The extensive work done by college faculty and small and large schools and colleges), and a range of AP teachers in the development of the course and gender, racial/ethnic, and regional groups. A list of each exam and throughout the scoring process ensures subject’s current AP Test Development Committee that AP Exam scores accurately represent students’ members is available on apcentral. achievement in the equivalent college course.
Frequent and regular research studies establish the validity of Throughout AP course and exam development, AP scores as follows: College Board gathers feedback from various stakeholders in both secondary schools and higher Credit College Grade education institutions. This feedback is carefully AP Score Recommendation Equivalent considered to ensure that AP courses and exams are able to provide students with a college-level learning 5 Extremely well qualified A experience and the opportunity to demonstrate their 4 Well qualified A-, B+, B qualifications for advanced placement or college credit. 3 Qualified B-, C+, C How AP Exams Are Scored 2 Possibly qualified n/a The exam scoring process, like the course and exam development process, relies on the expertise of both No recommendation n/a 1 AP teachers and college faculty. Through-course performance assessments, including AP Art and Design Portfolio Exams, are scored by college faculty While colleges and universities are responsible for and expert AP teachers.
Most are scored at the annual setting their own credit and placement policies, most AP Reading, while a small portion is scored online. All private colleges and universities award credit and/ AP Readers are thoroughly trained, and their work is or advanced placement for AP scores of 3 or higher. monitored throughout the Reading for fairness and Additionally, most states in the U. have adopted consistency.
For both sections of all three AP Art and statewide credit policies that ensure college credit for Design Portfolio Exams, multiple readers independently scores of 3 or higher at public colleges and universities. score student work. If scores are divergent, an To confirm a specific college’s AP credit/placement experienced reading leader adjudicates and assigns a policy, a search engine is available at apstudent.college final score.