Two Veterans on APWH Podcast 

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Two Veterans on AP World History has a goal to consistently present multiple perspectives of pedagogy for the class in order to help teachers. Over the course of the podcast, interviews will be conducted with APWH teacher gurus from different types of schools (urban, private, public, innercity, etc.), past students, APWH exam readers, college professors and more. Episodes will focus in on timeframes, different types of essays (DBQ and LEQ), historical thinking skills, etc.  Please note that any resources that are discussed or information that has value will be posted with all relevant links on the show notes page.

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  • Martellus 1489
  • Waldseemuller 1507
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Episode #13 Show Notes and Links

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The Two Veterans on APWH podcast costs a decent amount to run and takes a lot of time, energy, and effort.  You can use your amazon or credit card or google pay or paypal account to "buy us a cup of coffee" from that section of the website menu above.

00:00 Intro 

01:30 Introduction of Jake

04:18 How Jake became a teacher and the alternative credit recovery program

05:20 Adapting his teaching personality despite his shyness

09:00  Alternative credit recovery school and Tony’s Uncle that worked at a library in a county jail

12:13 Commending teachers that work in difficult environments

13:25 Jake’ current public high performing school and teaching to Freshmen

6:00 The logic of offering AP classes to Freshmen

17:15 The two studies about optimal number of AP classes a student can take

  1. Beard, J., Hsu, J., & Ewing, M. (2019). Studying the Relationships Between the Number of APs, AP Performance, and College Outcomes. (The College Board & Princeton University, Eds.).Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 38(4), 42–54. 
  2. Kretchmar, J., & Farmer, S. (2012, November 30). How Much is Enough? Rethinking the Role of High School Courses in College Admission. Journal of College Admission, n220 (SUm 2013),  28-33.

24:50 Contextualization of Multiple Choice Questions in APWH overtime and applying Bloom’s Taxonomy to the question types

26:40 Creating test questions for Freshmen World History and the discovery of “RTF” or “Rich Text Format.”

28:00 The limited amount of practice exams (2002, 2007, 2009 and 2011) before 2013

30:00 The importance of test security and protected integrity of certain posted APWH questions

31:00 Changes from 2017 to present on MCQ on APWH exam

35:30 Types of APWH MCQ and the Instructional Planning Report and the importance of the APWH themes SPICE

38:00 How we choose specific MCQ, “exam fatigue/hitting the wall,” and students using their time well

48:00 How some students can struggle on Image/Map based questions

51:46 Go to images in APWH MCQ - The Mosque of Timbuktu, the Taj Majal, Angkor Wat, the flying corners of temples in East Asia

54:50 MCQ Jake’s strategy of Source First, Question Second, Answer Third but allowing students to be individuals with their strategies and finding what works best for them.

58:50 Elements of the MCQ tips slideshow from Tony

  • How will you use your time wisely to maximize your score?
    • Do not just jump in and start the exam…….first look over the entire exam 
      • Do you see any questions that look easier than others?  
      • Now choose wisely and work fast/efficiently to finish the entire exam.
  • Now...that you must answer the difficult questions:
    • Rephrase the question in your own words
    • Try to eliminate at least two incorrect answers.
      • Smart guesses can increase your score - You now have it narrowed down to 2 options….take a 50/50 guess OR Skip it and move on again.

1:01 Jake’s interesting story of “cracking the code strategy”

01:06:00 The advantage of using paper MCQ tests at the beginning of the year and the issues of using AP Classroom

01:09:00 Jake’s version of curving the MCQ portion of his exams via The Square Root Curve 

Jake's Square Root Curve = Click HerePDF • 108KB

1:10 Tony’s curving of the MCQ Exam 

Curving and Scales that Two Veterans on APWH Uses = Click HerePDF • 515KB

01:14:00 How many MCQ Exams to give during the year

  • Timing per question and using MCQ to your advantage at struggling schools

01:18:30 Jake ends with a positive story