Appendix E

Explore Performance Task Checklist

This is a summary of the key requirements to maximize your score for the Explore Performance Task. It was created based on the June 2017 grading of this performance task.

Before using it, here are a few points to keep in mind:

•After the exam, your results for the Explore Performance Task will be given to you by “Reporting Category.”

– These categories are what graders will use to assign a score to your task.

– To line up with this, the following checklist also uses that language and explains the connection to the Performance Task in the second column.

– To make it easier for you to check your performance task, these requirements are organized by prompts.

•Remember that a computing innovation is an innovation that works because of a computer or a program code. The innovation may be:

– physical but with computational processes being called to make decisions (like a self-driving car)

– non-physical computer software (like a cell phone app)

–a computing concept (like social networking, since it requires use of the Internet)

Before starting the checklist, write down your COMPUTING INNOVATION here:

Then use this checklist to be sure you did all you could to maximize your score for your Explore Performance Task.

Reporting Category	Performance Task Connection	What you need to do to maximize your score for each category:
Using Development Processes and Tools	Computational Artifact		Your performance task is about a computing innovation (it works because of a computer and program).
			This computing innovation is identified clearly in the artifact
			You used a computer as a tool to create the computational artifact.
			Your artifact shows the purpose, function, and effect of this computing innovation.
Analyzing Impact of Computing, 1 of 2	Writing Prompt 2a		Your response here is about your computing innovation. Your response states a fact about the computing innovation’s purpose (why it was created) or function (how it works).
Analyzing Impact of Computing, 2 of 2	Writing Prompt 2c		Your response is about your computing innovation. Your response identifies a beneficial effect of the computing innovation working as intended.
			Your response explains how the beneficial effect impacts society, economy, or culture. (To do this, you have written about a way in which your innovation benefits all people, whether or not they own or use the innovation.)
			Your response is focused on a beneficial effect that happens as a result of the innovation working as it was intended.
			Your response identifies a harmful effect of the computing innovation working as intended.
			Your response explains how the harmful effect impacts society, economy, or culture. (To do this, you have written about a way in which your innovation harms all people, whether or not they own or use the innovation.)
			Your response argues how the harmful effect is connected to more than one person and identifies a significant result of this effect. The argument clearly connects the innovation to the effect.
			Your response is focused on a harmful effect that happens as a result of the innovation working as it was intended.
Analyzing Data and Information	Writing Prompt 2d		Your response here is about your computing innovation. You identify data that is processed by the computer or program code that makes the computing innovation work.
			You reduced the data to a type that shows a connection to the computer. The type might be a number (integer), Boolean, text, image, video, audio, or a signal.
			You explain how the data is consumed, produced, or transformed by the key computer or program code that makes your computing innovation work.
			You identify one data storage, privacy, or security concern and you explain how it is related to the data being processed by the computing innovation.
			You explain the consequence of the concern.
Finding and Evaluating Information	Writing Prompt 2e		You checked the dates on your sources. At least two of the sources were created after the end of last school year.
			For each online source, you included the permanent URL, identified the author, title, source, date retrieved and, if possible, the date posted.
			For each print source you included the author, title of excerpt/article and magazine or book, page number(s), publisher, and date of publication.
			If you used an interview source, you included the name of the person interviewed, the date of the interview, and the person’s position in the field.
			You used in-text citations to connect your paper to its source.
			Your sources are relevant, credible, and easily accessed.