The primary goal of this institute is to familiarize participants with the entire AP Statistics curriculum.  To achieve that goal, topics will be covered under the following tentative schedule.

To help insure student success on the exam, a secondary goal of this institute is to provide participants with a basis to evaluate the progress of their students in terms of the exam expectations, especially for free response questions.  

I believe the best means of conveying exam expectations is by analyzing previous exams.  Therefore, I will provide a detailed description of the expectations from the 2017 and 2018 constructed response questions which will be embedded appropriately in sections of the PowerPoint presentations.  All participants will receive a thumb drive containing all PowerPoint presentations, electronic versions of all handouts, and many other documents as well.  

DAY 1

• Displaying and Exploring Data
• Probability and Simulation

DAY 2

• Linear Regression
• The Basics if Inference Procedures
• Inference for Categorical Data: One Proportion

DAY 3

• Inference for Quantitative Data: One Mean or One Slope
• Inference for Differences and Paired Differences

DAY 4/5

• Inference for Multiple Comparisons: The Chi-Square Tests

It is my sincere hope that participants will not only become fluent in use of statistical techniques but gain an understanding of the underlying principles of those techniques.

My name is Kenn Pendleton, and I will be conducting the AP Statistics Summer Institute at Cape Henlopen HS in Lewes, DE, during the week of July 17 – 20, 2018. I began teaching Statistics in 1995, and in the spring of 1997 my students took the very first AP Statistics exam. A seminal event in the development of my ability to teach AP Statistics was my attendance at an AP Statistics Institute in the summer of 1997. With the encouragement of the leader of that institute, I applied to become a reader of the exam and completed the typical six-year high school rotation, serving in the summers of 2000 through 2005. During that time the College Board invited me to apply to become a leader of AP Statistics workshops. I have conducted workshops and summer institutes for the last fifteen years, and I managed to find time to complete my Master’s Degree in Measurement and Statistics at the University of Maryland in May of 2006. That degree enables me to teach Statistics as an adjunct faculty member at the Germantown branch of Montgomery College, which I have done for the past eleven years, and serve as a college reader of the exam, which I have done for the past seven years. In all, I have read more than half of all AP Statistics exams given.