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, ...

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 ...

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT has forced educators to confront foundational questions about what we teach and why. One of the most important questions is: in the age of ...

This semester-long qualitative study explores the effects of a high-stakes, direct writing test on 3 teachers and their students in 1 rural Maryland high school. Out of the 23 students in both classes ...

Myra Kraft Achievers, Humanities Fellows and transfer students with preapproved university writing transfer credit do not participate in the writing assessment. All other first-year students admitted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Will Fitzhugh is the founder of The Concord Review, which publishes academic research papers by secondary students. March 10, 2014 As Euclid famously said to King Ptolemy I of Egypt, "There is no ...

Researchers explores the promise and peril of computer-based writing assessment software. "Can we write during recess?" Some students were asking that question at Anna P. Mote Elementary School, where ...