Joshua Wilson, Ph.D.
Scholar of writing assessment, automated feedback, and the responsible integration of artificial intelligence into teaching, learning, and educational measurement.
Dr. Joshua Wilson's scholarship has helped shape the field's understanding of automated writing evaluation and the effective use of AI in writing instruction and assessment. His research shows that the value of these tools depends not only on what they can do technically, but on how they are taken up by teachers and students and whether classroom and school conditions allow them to support meaningful learning.
Focal Research Areas
Automated Writing Evaluation
Research on how automated feedback and scoring systems can support revision, strengthen instruction, and expand access to meaningful writing support.
Writing Assessment
Work focused on valid, usable, and instructionally meaningful approaches to understanding student writing and guiding next instructional steps.
AI In Education
Scholarship examining how AI can be used responsibly in educational measurement, classroom practice, and the design of writing support tools.
Scholarship Explorer
Explore Dr. Wilson's research
Browse publications across writing assessment, automated writing evaluation, and AI in education, with clear summaries and pathways that make the scholarship easy to explore.
Speaking & Training
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Book Companion
Generative AI and Writing Instruction Book Companion
A companion space is planned for Dr. Wilson's book, Generative AI and Writing Instruction for K-12, to be published by Guilford Press. Chapter resources will help readers connect the book's ideas with classroom practice as materials become available.
Apps / Tools
Explore apps and tools built by Dr. Wilson
This space will introduce apps and practical tools that extend Dr. Wilson's work in writing and assessment as they become available for public use.