A new policy has been implemented at CSUN that requires all students who now have 75 units or more to attempt the Upper Division Writing Proficiency Exam (UDWPE) prior to registration of Spring 2012 ...

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 ...

All CSUN students must take the Upper Division Writing Proficiency Exam in order to graduate. Students are eligible to take the exam after completing a total of 56 semester units and after completing ...

After decades of paper-and-pencil tests, the new results from the “nation’s report card” in writing come from a computer-based assessment for the first time, but only about one-quarter of the 8th and ...

The Graduate GWAR is a CSU wide requirement that should be completed by graduate students before advancing to candidacy. The purpose of the GWAR is for students to demonstrate their proficiency at ...

The World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment, or WIDA, consortium today released sample questions for the nation’s most popular English-language-proficiency test, ACCESS for ELLs. Virtually all ...