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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...