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 ...

Performance tests are increasingly used as alternatives to, or in connection with, standardized multiple-choice tests as a means of assessing student learning and school accountability. Besides their ...

I think I have a new mantra for how faculty should think about approaching student writing assignments and assessment in this new ChatGPT era. It’s a bit of a throwback idea, borrowed from MTV’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beginning Oct. 1, all soldiers and noncommissioned officers preparing to attend an NCO professional military education course will be required to take an English comprehension and 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 ...

At least 70 percent of learners in primary schools in Uganda cannot write adequately, a new report by Uwezo Uganda and the People’s Action for Learning (PAL) Network indicates. The report, titled ...