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 ...

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 ...

Lindsay Hamm, lecturer, in the Department of Sociology, uses writing and automated peer review as a “Swiss Army knife” to engage students and improve learning in all her courses, from a 30-person ...

In our experience, peer-feedback or peer-review exercises offer a distinct opportunity in the classroom: students can benefit from both giving and receiving written input from others in all ...

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 focus in the classroom was primarily on delivering content and practicing skills through carefully crafted lessons in the earlier part of my career. More often than not, purposeful application of ...

Vol. 33, No. 1, Special Issue: Promoting learning by leveraging the collaborative nature of formative per assessment with instructional scaffolds (January 2018), pp. 165-184 (20 pages) The act of ...

Shaping Peer Writing Feedback in a Virtual World Amid a shifting university landscape, where hybrid and online courses are growing as common as omelette bars and smartboards, creating virtual spaces ...