Writing skills are essential for your academic success at Brandeis. To give us a sense of where you currently are as a writer, we have created an Online Writing Assessment. All incoming students ...

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 ...

In a previous post - Surviving the semester: Assessments - Writing the Questions- I discussed the need for being able to rapidly and easily write questions for online assessment. As I said in the ...