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• September 13, 2009 Schools: Online Writing Tool Boosts Test Scores

  -Juan Antonio Lizama, Times-Dispatch Last school year, five Chesterfield County middle schools piloted an online essay-grading tool and saw as much as 21 percent gains on eighth-graders’ Standards of Learning writing test scores. Last week, the School Board authorized the school system to spend about $45,000 to buy licenses for all eighth-graders to use the […]

• September 13, 2009 Schools: Online Writing Tool Boosts Test Scores

  -Juan Antonio Lizama, Times-Dispatch Last school year, five Chesterfield County middle schools piloted an online essay-grading tool and saw as much as 21 percent gains on eighth-graders’ Standards of Learning writing test scores. Last week, the School Board authorized the school system to spend about $45,000 to buy licenses for all eighth-graders to use the […]