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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Photo by Solen Feyissa on Unsplash When it comes to assessing student writing, AI is getting a passing grade. At least ...

Myra Kraft Achievers, Humanities Scholars and transfer students do not participate in the writing assessment. All other first-year students admitted for the fall or spring semester must participate in ...

When their first graders struggled with a writing assignment, a group of educators collaborated on a new, more effective plan ...

EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities (Rebroadcast) The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT has forced educators to confront ...

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 ...

Dan Melzer, associate director of first-year composition at the University of California, Davis, shook up the research on teaching college-level writing in 2014 with his book Assignments Across 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 ...

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 ...