AP® Reader – Onsite Scoring

Advanced Placement Readers evaluate and score AP students' free-responses ensuring that high school students receive AP grades that accurately reflect college-level achievement in a specified discipline.

Each year in June, faculty from around the world gather at sites across the United States to:

• exchange ideas among faculty and AP Development committee members
• establish friendships and a countrywide network of faculty members
• score the exam responses from AP high school students
• practice how to use a rubric consistently, which provides valuable knowledge for scoring their own students' essays
• earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and Professional Development Hours (PDHs)
  • ETS is an authorized provider of IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to AP Reading participants. For further information on IACET or CEUs, go to www.iacet.org

Keyword: AP® Reader – PAPER BASED SCORING
Required Experience:

AP Reader eligibility requirements:

College-Level Faculty
AP Readers from colleges and universities must be active faculty members and have taught at least one semester of a comparable AP course as described in the AP Course Description within the past three years.
High School Teachers
AP Readers from secondary schools must currently teach the AP course in a face-to-face classroom setting and have at least three years' experience teaching it unless:

• the AP course is new then teachers must demonstrate comparable expertise and teaching experience
• the AP course is an online AP course taught in a virtual classroom then teachers must have at least three years' experience in teaching the course in a face-to-face classroom setting.

Temporary Work Authorization
Persons who are not legally authorized to work in the U.S. may be eligible for temporary work authorization in an H-1B visa classification for "specialty occupations." For persons selected to receive an invitation to serve as a Reader, ETS may attempt to obtain H-1B work authorization. H-1B visas are employer-specific. In other words, you may not work for ETS with an H-1B Visa obtained for you by another U.S. employer. If you are currently working in the U.S. within an H-1B status obtained by another U.S. employer, ETS must obtain approval of a separate H-1B petition on your behalf in order for you to work for ETS. In addition, we must explore whether persons who are in the U.S. in another visa status can in fact obtain H-1B status with ETS' sponsorship without jeopardizing their current immigration status.

As part of the documentation required to support ETS' petition for H-1B status on your behalf, you are required to submit copies of your relevant degree(s). If your degree is not specific to the AP Exam you are applying to score, you will need to send a copy of your school transcripts. Please prepare to send this extra documentation along with your completed Reader application form.

For additional information, e-mail APReader@ets.org

Frequently Asked Questions about the AP Reading.