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Structuring and Assessing The "Goalless" Inquiry Lab

A strategy for structuring open inquiry and authentically assessing lab skills at the same. How do we structure open inquiry? My mantra...

Standards Based Grading 2.0: Using Rubrics Based on The AP Science Practices

In this post I outline my new assessment strategy which uses rubrics tailored to the AP Physics 1 & 2 Science Practices within a...

Points Are Bad and You Should Stop Using Them

When discussing grading with other physics teachers, the one thing that I always emphasize the most is the value of getting rid of...

Implementing Standards Based Grading

UPDATE: Since writing this post two years ago, I have refined my assessment system quite a bit. To see some of the changes I've and my...

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About Me

I teach AP Physics 1 and AP Capstone Research at Korea International School. I also have extensive experience teaching AP Physics 2. In this blog, I hope to share the good ideas I've come across with other physics teachers.