As a high school history teacher, I’m committed to helping my students improve their writing. But, like many of us, I struggle to find time to provide meaningful, timely feedback and assessment. A few ...

The art of writing, invented roughly 5,000 years ago, represents a blip in human history. It’s younger than agriculture, music, and construction. And as recently as the Revolutionary War, a majority ...

Does thinking about spending hours grading student writing fill you with dread? It doesn’t have to! Writing is an essential activity for developing higher order thinking ability such as critical ...

Writing is critical for all students, but many students struggle to develop strong writing skills. New research suggests a technique called performance feedback could be a valuable tool for helping ...

This is a somewhat uncomfortable thing to admit, but for a good chunk of my teaching career, most of the feedback I gave students on their writing was not meaningful. How do I know this? Well, in many ...

I’m trying to understand where the notion that constantly monitoring students and subjecting them to real-time feedback is a benefit to learning came from, because I gotta[1] tell you, from my ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are the best ways to give students feedback on their writing? Teaching writing—and learning how to write—are not easy tasks for teachers or students. Educators ...

Feedback from faculty of all disciplines, as well as writing center professionals, remains an irreplaceable component of the university writing experience. But if students are only writing, and never ...

(This is the third post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part Two, Susan M. Brookhart, Cheryl Mizerny, Amy Benjamin, Kate Wolfe Maxlow, Karen Sanzo, Andrew ...