We fed ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new natural language tool, college essay questions for the 2022-2023 academic year. Here’s what it wrote. The new technology could pose a challenge for college admissions ...

Re “The Lobotomized Weasel School of Writing,” Commentary, May 20: I vehemently disagree with Crispin Sartwell’s characterization of the five-paragraph essay as “hoo-ha.” While he explains that ...

The world is changing faster than we can keep up with it. It's all happening in the digital age, and now artificial intelligence has become a part of our lives that's difficult to escape. AI is being ...

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Here's a little pop quiz. Multiple-choice tests are useful because: A: They're cheap to score. B: They can be scored quickly. C: They score without human bias. D: All of the above. It would take a ...

As a longtime admissions essay consultant and the founder of College Essay Advisors, anytime news is announced in the world of writing education or college admissions, I receive a flurry of text ...

Computers have taken the place of humans in grading student essays on Ohio's standardized tests, which the state says will save time and make scoring more equitable. But some school officials are ...

The high stakes tests for Common Core are supposed to emphasize thinking more than the tests for, say, AIMS. One way to do that is to emphasize written analysis as an important component of the tests.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Having just adapted to a newly reformatted state test, school leaders across Texas are now looking at a new change in how their ...

Can elementary-school children show off their best writing on a computer? The research arm of the U.S. Department of Education was curious to learn just that. In 2012 it handed out laptop ...

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