Education Week

If ChatGPT Can Write Virtually Anything, What Should a National Writing Exam Test?

For good or ill, people use ChatGPT now to write virtually any type of communication, from award acceptance speeches to business emails to book reports. Now the rapid ascendance of artificial ...
Austin American-Statesman

STAAR writing test a big step backward

I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as I read these words from the fifth or sixth page of instructions to seventh-graders taking the writing State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) ...
Houston Public Media

Almost half of Texas fourth graders scored a zero on the STAAR writing composition last year. Teachers and researchers worry, while the TEA projects confidence

Erika De La Rosa was excited when she heard about the sweeping changes to the STAAR exam. "When they initially announced it, as an English teacher, it sounded like a fantastic idea because writing ...
VietNamNet

Writing exam question raises controversy

VietNamNet Bridge – The question raised at the literature exams for 12th excellent graders in Hai Phong City was described by some educators as “abnormal.” VietNamNet Bridge – The question raised at ...