These Simple Writing Exercises Helped More Low-Income Students Pass Biology
“Participating in the writing tasks before the fall and spring tests had little effect on higher-income students, but for low-income students, the benefits were significant. For students who participated in the writing exercises, the test-score gap between students in poverty and higher-income students was 17 percentage points, 7 percentage points less than the performance gap between low- and higher-income students who had not participated in the writing tasks.”