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 ...

Shame around writing ability can be a real problem for new students, so let’s make sure feedback encourages their development. Find out how here We know emotions and learning are closely linked.

Teaching students to write is no easy feat, and it’s a topic that has often been discussed on this blog. Penny Kittle teaches first-year writers at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was ...

A Stanford study found that AI writing tools give different feedback depending on perceived student identity, offering more praise and less criticism to some groups. The findings raise concerns that ...

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.

In the second installment of our Hands-on AI Pedagogy Showcase series, we turn to the pressing question of developing students’ AI literacy. As mentioned in our February teaching tip, students are ...

A colleague of ours recently attended an AI training where the opening slide featured a list of all the ways AI can revolutionize our classrooms. Grading was listed at the top. Sure, AI can grade ...

A Stanford University study has found that AI models give different writing feedback depending on perceived student identity, such as race, gender, or motivation level. The analysis of 600 middle ...