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Direct linkLo, Lusa – Preventing School Failure, 2014
An individualized education program is a legal document that details information regarding the special education program of a student with a disability. For parents to determine whether they agree with the individualized education program that is proposed by the school, they must first be able to read and comprehend the document. This study aimed…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Special Education, Readability, Parent Materials
Peer reviewedJones, Ithel – Computers in the Schools, 1994
In response to national concern over declining standards in students' writing abilities, an increasing number of schools have adopted the use of word processors in an effort to increase literacy skills. The instructional effectiveness of word processors in 20 second-grade students was analyzed and it was found that computers facilitate improvement…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Futures (of Society), Grade 2
Download full textCameron, C. A.; And Others – 1987
In order to evaluate an experimental writing program involving word processors as tools, a study examined the use of cloze techniques as a method for indicating reading progress as it relates to writing. Subjects, 87 Canadian primary school children, were involved in a three-year longitudinal study of the effects of this experimental writing…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Lewis, Rena B. – 1998
This final report discusses the outcomes of a 3-year project that studied the effectiveness of word processing tools in improving the literacy skills of students with learning disabilities in grades 4-12. In Year 1 (1994-95), four text entry strategies were compared in 132 students with learning disabilities: keyboarding instruction, alternative…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Editing, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMumtaz, Shazia; Hammond, Michael – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2002
Discusses a study that investigated the use of word processing for literacy teaching in primary schools in Great Britain. Considers the use of word processing and the attempts to integrate other information and communication technologies into schools; enhancing the curriculum; and shifting focus away from technology and toward the development of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Guddemi, Marcy; Mills, Heidi – Dimensions, 1991
Observations of children's writing on the computer include an anecdote concerning a five-year-old's use of a word processor to write a story at the University of South Carolina's Children's Center. Also discussed are general literacy growth and four patterns of risk taking with computer writing. (BB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Technology
Norton, Priscilla; Heiman, Brenda – Educational Technology, 1988
Describes study that examined the effects of computer use in the literacy program for communication disordered elementary school students, and determined which literacy effects could be attributed to problem-solving software and which to word processing software. Treatments for the experimental and control groups are described, and results are…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Communication Disorders, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
