In 1977, long before most of today’s college students were born, Old Dominion University President Alfred Rollins declared in an address to the faculty that too many ODU graduates were unable to write ...

Writing exam questions is a big project, and it is not accomplished at one stroke. It requires time to prepare and polish this form of assessment but using a standardised process when writing exam ...

This may discredit my job as the coordinator of Hofstra University’s institutional writing assessment, but I’ll say it anyway: writing proficiency exams (WPEs) should be abolished. WPEs are often exit ...

The results of a national writing test released Friday show that only a quarter of eighth- and 12th-grade students have solid writing skills, a statistic that Lowcountry school officials say they have ...

It’s a feeling you’ve almost certainly experienced before – the fear of waiting for an exam to start, heart thumping, palms sweating and brow furrowing. You worry about whether you’ve prepared ...