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AbuSeileek, A. F. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2013
This study investigated the effect of computer-mediated corrective feedback types in an English as a foreign language (EFL) intact class over time. The participants were 64 English majors who were assigned randomly into three treatment conditions that gave and received computer-mediated corrective feedback while writing (track changes, word…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Error Correction, Feedback (Response), English (Second Language)
Graham, Steve; Harris, Karen; Hebert, Michael – Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2011
During this decade there have been numerous efforts to identify instructional practices that improve students' writing. These include "Reading Next" (Biancarosa and Snow, 2004), which provided a set of instructional recommendations for improving writing, and "Writing Next" (Graham and Perin, 2007) and "Writing to Read" (Graham and Hebert, 2010),…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Writing Improvement, Writing Instruction

Goldfine, Ruth – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2001
Outlines detrimental effects of word processing in the composition classroom on planning, reading, organizing, revising, error detection, and spelling and vocabulary skill development. Discusses strategies instructors can use to teach students to use the computer at each stage of the writing process in ways that encourage and develop the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Thinking Skills, Word Processing
Priest, Nancy B. – 1995
A program was developed and implemented to improve fourth graders' writing skills in conjunction with the State Writing Assessment Test. The objectives for the program were for 80% of the students to improve their writing scores by a minimum of 0.5 point using the State Writing rubric as the guideline; to increase students' understanding of the…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Intervention
Hart, Robert L. – 1992
A study examined whether students who underwent training and gained experience in the use of computer word processing techniques would score significantly higher on a writing test than students who received no such training. Students in two randomly selected English Composition II classes at Gloucester County College (New Jersey) were randomly…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Freshman Composition, Instructional Effectiveness
Liechty, Anna L. – 1989
This study addresses two questions: how can computers be effectively employed in the composition classroom, and to what extent does instruction in writing complement the use of the word processor in developing writing skills? Thirty-eight current research studies on the effects of using word processing to teach composition are reviewed. The…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Process Approach (Writing)
Mullen, Michael P. – 2003
This study explores ways of helping fifth grade students edit their work appropriately for their grade level. The use of Daily Oral Language, grammar worksheets, or the reliance on the teacher to edit were eliminated. Instead, more direction for students was provided through the use of checklists, peer editing, and word processing on a computer.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Audience Awareness, Editing, Instructional Effectiveness
Padgett, Ann L. – 2000
The purpose of this study was to examine the quantity of words written by an intermediate elementary student when paper and pencil are used and compare it with the quantity of words written with a computer. One fifth-grade magnet homeroom consisting of 16 students was involved in this study. The participants were randomly placed into two groups.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Grade 5, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades

MacArthur, Charles A.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1995
A model of writing instruction integrating word processing, strategy instruction, and a process approach, within a social context for writing as a meaningful task, was tested with 113 elementary students with learning disabilities. Students in experimental classes made greater gains in quality of their narrative and informative writing than did…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Philips, David – 1995
An 18-month study examined the impact of word processors on the teaching and learning of writing in an area school on the South Island of New Zealand, with a special focus upon the writing development of 9 primary school children ranging in age from 8 years 11 months to 11 years 8 months. A wide range of data was collected on each pupil, including…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness
DeFoe, Marguerite Corbitt – 2000
This practicum was designed to use directed writing strategies to teach writing skills to middle grades language arts students who frequently failed to make average or above scores in essay writing assignments. The program included three specific strategies. The first strategy was to teach higher-order thinking and metacognitive strategies related…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Arts
Yau, Maria; And Others – 1990
Fifty-six Toronto (Ontario, Canada) seventh-grade and eighth-grade learning-disabled students whose handwriting was very difficult to read were randomly assigned to either an experimental or comparison group. Experimental group students were loaned a portable computer to use freely at school and at home during the course of the experiment.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Handwriting, Instructional Effectiveness