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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Graduate GWAR is a CSU wide requirement that should be completed by graduate students before advancing to candidacy.The purpose of the GWAR is for students to demonstrate their proficiency at ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. It’s a daunting job for two big groups of states to design multilayered assessment systems by 2014, and a panel of experts has made it even more daunting, composing ...

State education officials will streamline the state’s writing-assessment test. The State Board of Education, following a recommendation from Michael Flanagan, state superintendent, announced recently ...

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 ...

SALEM — Oregon students taking a state writing assessment test will be allowed to use a computer spell checker this year. KTVZ-TV in Bend reported that, beginning with the new school year, the Oregon ...

After decades of paper-and-pencil tests, the new results from the “nation’s report card” in writing come from a computer-based assessment for the first time, but only about one-quarter of the 8th and ...

Which is the greater sin in writing: wandering away from the point of an argument, or forgetting that the word "won't" needs an apostrophe? When you've got a pile of 7,200 student essays awaiting ...