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Baaijen, Veerle M.; Galbraith, David – Cognition and Instruction, 2018
This study compares a problem-solving account of discovery through writing, which attributes discovery to strategic rhetorical planning and assumes discovery is associated with better quality text, to a dual-process account, which attributes discovery to the combined effect of 2 conflicting processes with opposing relationships to text quality.…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Strategies, Metacognition, Correlation
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Woods-Groves, Suzanne; Hughes, Charles A.; Rodgers, Derek B.; Balint-Langel, Kinga; Alqahtani, Saeed S.; Neil, Katelyn M.; Hinzman, Michelle – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
The authors in this study used a pre-posttest experimental design with random assignment to treatment or control group to assess the use of an electronic editing cognitive strategy. The participants were 16 college students with intellectual and developmental disabilities enrolled in a 2-year postsecondary program at a Midwestern institute of…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Instructional Effectiveness
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Tosuncuoglu, Irfan; Kirmizi, Özkan – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2019
The present study was undertaken to measure the metacognitive writing awareness of university-Flevel learners. The participants of the study are 101 students of English Language and Literature, enrolled at a state university in Turkey. The grade level of the students ranges from the first grade to the fourth grade. In order to collect data, a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Advanced Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Dixon, Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study compares second-year Japanese university students' strategies to write kanji by hand with their strategies to produce the kanji characters on a computer, taking into account factors such as accuracy in writing, the amount of kanji used, the complexity of the kanji used, as well as how the characters used compare with the sequence…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Mogey, Nora; Paterson, Jessie; Burk, John; Purcell, Michael – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2010
Students at the University of Edinburgh do almost all their work on computers, but at the end of the semester they are examined by handwritten essays. Intuitively it would be appealing to allow students the choice of handwriting or typing, but this raises a concern that perhaps this might not be "fair"--that the choice a student makes,…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Essay Tests, Interrater Reliability, Grading
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Turner, Margaret – Journal of Learning Design, 2007
Many academics continue to approach the multi-path and multi-voiced capacity of the Internet's networked nodal structure as if it were a book with pages and paragraphs and sentences that flow together in one direction to make a whole. A different approach to that of traditional writing, is required to make effective use of the distinctive…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Sentences, Word Processing, Electronic Learning