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 ...

Even before complications wrought by AI, faculty members and students alike have often dreaded college writing assignments—students because of painful past histories with the process and faculty ...

As AI cements itself firmly into classrooms, one large and lingering question concerns when and how students can use it appropriately. It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative ...

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 learning outcomes (SLOs) allow us to determine whether students are reaching the goals and objectives that we want them to achieve. They are expressed as specific statements describing the ...

A group of students begins an in-class writing test. According to new data analysis, half of U.S. eighth graders have difficulty with long-form writing on tests and classwork that involves reading.

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Researchers from ...

Is not voting a responsible option in a presidential election? Weigh in with your argument. Students will read and respond to the YES! Magazine article, “5 Reasons to Vote Even When You Hate ...

Writing practice and instruction fosters higher order thinking and cultivates critical intellectual processes such as analyzing ideas, solving problems, and evaluating claims. Writing is a complex ...

(This is the third post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part Two, Eugenia Mora-Flores, Julia G. Thompson, Karen Sher, Bret Gosselin, Dr. Vicky Giouroukakis, and ...