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Peer reviewedTimko, Henry G. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1983
Forty kindergarten children were randomly assigned to four conditions to investigate the influence of criterion level on the discrimination of highly confusable letters in beginning reading. Half the subjects were exposed to simultaneous, and half to successive discriminations. The groups were equally divided as to criterion level, i.e., four vs.…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Beginning Reading, Kindergarten, Letters (Alphabet)
Peer reviewedMeulenbroek, Ruud G. J.; Van Galen, Gerard P. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1990
Seventy-five Dutch elementary school students wrote letters of a cursive alphabet after presentation of printed and cursive letters. Analysis revealed that spatial ambiguity, allographic variability, contextual ambiguity, and letter frequency are determinants of the time needed by children for perceiving printed and producing corresponding cursive…
Descriptors: Children, Context Effect, Cursive Writing, Elementary Education
