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Peer reviewedMacArthur, Charles A.; Graham, Steve – Journal of Special Education, 1987
Eleven fifth- and sixth-grade learning-disabled students composed and revised stories using handwriting, dictation, and word processing. Dictated stories differed from other formats on product measures such as length, quality, and grammatical errors. Differences between handwritten and word-processed stories were found on the process measures of…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Dictation, Handwriting, Intermediate Grades
Heap, James L.; Moore, Shawn – 1986
A study investigating collaborative computer use for writing at the primary level was conducted at a Catholic school in Toronto through videotaping and observation in a first grade classroom over a period of 3 weeks. It was found that the differentiation of tasks by the computer into two types of acts--inputting signs and arranging text--was…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Computer Assisted Instruction, Creative Writing, Foreign Countries
Download full textSemmel, Melvyn, I.; And Others – 1989
This study investigated the collaborative interactions of junior high school boys (N=36) with learning disabilities while engaged in writing stories using a word processor. Half the subjects were of Anglo-American background and half of Mexican-American background. Each subject worked in two dyads, ethnically homogeneous and ethnically…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Cooperative Learning, Creative Writing, Ethnic Groups
