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Mayo Beltrán, Alba Mª; Fernández Sánchez, María Jesús; Montanero Fernández, Manuel; Martín Parejo, David – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2022
This study compares the effects of two resources, a paper rubric (CR) or the comment bubbles from a word processor (CCB), to support peer co-evaluation of expository texts in primary education. A total of 57 students wrote a text which, after a peer co-evaluation process, was rewritten. To analyze the improvements in the texts, we used a rubric…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Evaluation Methods, Word Processing, Computer Software
Brown, Sally; Allmond, Alexandra – Reading Teacher, 2021
Composing is an essential part of literacy development in early childhood classrooms, and writing experiences are continually changing through advances in technology. Writing in a new language can be particularly challenging for emergent bilinguals as they navigate learning how to spell in English as part of the writing process. New pedagogical…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition), Computer Software
Foxworth, Lauren L.; Hashey, Andrew; Sukhram, Diana P. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2019
In an age when students are increasingly expected to demonstrate technology-based writing proficiency, fluency challenges with word processing programs can pose a barrier to successful writing when students are asked to compose using these tools. The current study was designed to determine whether differences existed in typing fluency and digital…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Word Processing
White, Sheida; Kim, Young Yee; Chen, Jing; Liu, Fei – National Center for Education Statistics, 2015
This study examined whether or not fourth-graders could fully demonstrate their writing skills on the computer and factors associated with their performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) computer-based writing assessment. The results suggest that high-performing fourth-graders (those who scored in the upper 20 percent…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Writing Tests, Grade 4
Cunningham, Robert – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of the combination of word prediction and text-to-speech software on the writing process of translating. Participants for this study included 10 elementary and middle school students who had a diagnosis of disorder of written expression. A modified multiple case series was used to collect data…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Writing (Composition), Visual Aids, Prompting
Fisher, Ashley; Lazaros, Edward J. – Tech Directions, 2009
This article details the many benefits of educators' use of digital camera technology and provides an activity in which students practice taking portrait shots of classmates, manipulate the resulting images, and add language arts practice by interviewing their subjects to produce a photo-illustrated Word document. This activity gives…
Descriptors: Photography, Communication Skills, Educational Technology, Interviews
Chana, Urmi; Edwards, Viv; Walker, Sue – Multicultural Teaching, 1997
Explores the educational applications and potential of using multilingual word-processing in primary schools and offers solutions to technical difficulties. It provides tips on software selection, training, and introducing the program to parents and pupils. (GR)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
Dickson, W. Patrick – 1986
Focusing on the application of new technologies to the creation of rich environments for writing, this project entailed the assembling of a low-cost microcomputer system that included a microcomputer, speech synthesis, voice recognition, and videodisk player. A variety of alternative input devices were explored, and software that permitted the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Burke, Janet – 1998
This paper is a series of lesson plans designed to assist teachers with the instruction of the exceptional learner. The focus is on identifying what the exceptional learner needs, and provides specific lesson plans that met those needs. Exceptional learners experience difficulty with spelling, organization, and metacognition. Detailed directions…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Disabilities
Gnach, Aleksandra; Wiesner, Esther; Bertschi-Kaufmann, Andrea; Perrin, Daniel – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2007
Children and young people are increasingly performing a variety of writing tasks using computers, with word processing programs thus becoming their natural writing environment. The development of keystroke logging programs enables us to track the process of writing, without changing the writing environment for the writers. In the myMoment schools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Writing, Writing Processes, Writing Instruction