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Vandermeulen, Nina; Van Steendam, Elke; De Maeyer, Sven; Rijlaarsdam, Gert – Written Communication, 2023
This intervention study aimed to test the effect of writing process feedback. Sixty-five Grade 10 students received a personal report based on keystroke logging data, including information on several writing process aspects. Participants compared their writing process to exemplar processes of equally scoring (position-setting condition) or…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Processes, Feedback (Response), Futures (of Society)
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Markel, Mike – Computers and Composition, 1994
Examines relationships among computer experience, attitudes, writing behaviors, and writing quality for advanced undergraduate students who have owned Macintosh computers for at least three years. Finds that writing attitudes and practices are fairly well ingrained for the less competent writers, and they need to become comfortable with the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Word Processing
Dwyer, Herbert J. – 1990
This study investigated student preferences for either teacher-written or computer-generated marking of written compositions. Ninety-seven high school students typed assigned compositions on a word processor. Three skills pre-selected by the teacher were checked on each composition. Students were randomly assigned to treatments so that, on the…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, High School Students, Microcomputers, Questionnaires
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Wolfe, Edward W.; And Others – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1996
Investigates how word processing experience influences tenth grade student performance on a writing assessment. Examines factors influencing a student's decision about using word processors for writing; relationship between experience with the technology and scores on word processed essays; and differences in length, neatness, mechanical…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Attitudes, Essays, Grade 10
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
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Dwyer, Herbert J.; Sullivan, Howard J. – Journal of Educational Research, 1993
High school students' preferences for teacher versus computer feedback on written compositions were studied. Three compositions composed at the terminal were evaluated by the teacher, a computer grammar checker, and the student's choice of teacher or computer. Questionnaires indicated that students strongly favored teacher evaluation because of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Feedback, Grade 11, Grade 12
Arnold, Voiza; And Others – 1990
In 1990, a study was conducted at Rio Hondo College (Whittier, California) to determine if readers exhibited any bias in scoring test papers that were composed on a word processor as opposed to being written by hand. The study began with the formulation of tentative pilot study questions and the development of procedures to address them. Three…
Descriptors: Bias, Community Colleges, Evaluators, Handwriting