This is going to sound strange coming from someone who spent his career teaching writing and now spends his time trying to help others teach writing better, but it is entirely possible that, with the ...

When it comes to assessing student writing, AI is getting a passing grade. At least that’s what two recent studies comparing robot (AI)-generated assessments to human ones suggested. In one study, ...

Writing skills are essential for your academic success at Brandeis. To give us a sense of where you currently are as a writer, we have created an Online Writing Assessment. All incoming students ...

The Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), an AI language processing tool that can interpret and translate text,[1] is pretty amazing. It’s so amazing that thinking about how it performed on an ...

Student writing skills can be improved in the classroom by having teachers provide students regular feedback, track their progress, and encourage them to evaluate their own skills, finds a new report ...

Many of my conversations with faculty focus on the challenges they have with doing good learning assessment in large classes. The best learner-centered assessment approaches are no match for ...

Formative assessments are tools used during instruction to provide real-time feedback, helping both students and educators make immediate improvements. Unlike summative assessments, which evaluate ...

A recent study by researchers at Vanderbilt University finds that formative assessment—that is, ongoing, classroom-based assessment done by the teacher—can help improve students’ writing. Examples of ...

The Undergraduate GWAR is a CSU-wide requirement that should be completed by undergraduate students in their junior year. All undergraduate students must satisfy the Graduation Writing Assessment ...

According to the most recent data from the National Assessment of Educational Performance (NAEP), two-thirds of K-12 students are not writing at levels expected for their grade level. Even before the ...