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Kurth, Ruth J. – 1986
A study examined whether the use of word processors would enhance the amount and quality of students' revisions. Subjects, 28 high school sophomores and juniors enrolled in a special class for interested writers, met twice a week for 60 minutes in either a computer laboratory (experimental group) or in a regular classroom (control group). Findings…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, High Schools, Peer Evaluation, Revision (Written Composition)
Kurth, Ruth J.; Stromberg, Linda J. – 1984
A study was conducted to see if the use of word processing programs during composition instruction for basic writers would result in a larger quantity of writing and more global revision while writing. Subjects were 18 fifth, sixth, or seventh grade students who had been referred for remedial reading and writing instruction. They were assigned to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Remedial Instruction, Remedial Programs
Stromberg, Linda; Kurth, Ruth J. – 1983
Recently a number of writers and researchers have praised the editing and text moving capabilities of word processing programs, proposing that they can be useful in helping students revise more readily and skillfully. With this premise, 16 eighth grade students participated in a program in which they used a text editor or word processing system to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 8, Microcomputers
Kurth, Ruth J.; Kurth, Lila M. – 1987
A study was conducted in which word processing and voice synthesis were used to teach beginning writing skills to kindergarten and first grade students. Subjects, 46 children from two elementary schools enrolled in an early education summer school class in writing, were randomly divided into three groups. One group was taught writing using a…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperation
