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Direct linkGrey House Publishing, 2018
"The Complete Learning Disabilities Resource Guide" (formerly "The Complete Learning Disabilities Directory") has been a comprehensive and sought-after resource for professionals, families and individuals with learning disabilities since 1992. This twenty-first edition is the most comprehensive and current source of resources…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Identification, Academic Achievement, Professional Associations
Beckner, Gary, Ed. – Association of American Educators Foundation, 2008
Education Matters" is the monthly newsletter of the Association of American Educators (AAE), an organization dedicated to advancing the American teaching profession through personal growth, professional development, teacher advocacy and protection. This issue of the newsletter includes: (1) Fixing D.C.'s Schools: How a 38-Year-Old Rookie…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement
Peer reviewedGiovannini, Mary; Miller, F. Milton – Journal of Studies in Technical Careers, 1984
This study set out to determine the effect of teaching business communications by a traditional writing and a word processing method upon the students' attitudes and cognitive achievement. There was no significant difference found in student attitude, but there was significance found between treatment groups on the combined mean scores of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Business Communication, Business Correspondence, Cognitive Processes
Peer reviewedMcNaughton, David; Hughes, Charles; Clark, Karen – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1997
This study investigated effects of five proofreading conditions on the spelling performance of 12 college students with learning disabilities. Conditions were handwriting with no additional assistance, with a print dictionary, and with a handheld spelling checker; and word processing with no additional assistance and with a spelling checker. All…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Handwriting, Higher Education
Peer reviewedGreenland, Leonard T.; Bartholome, Lloyd W. – Delta Pi Epsilon Journal, 1987
The study compared achievement and attitudes of Utah State University students who experienced two different methods of teaching business communication. The experimental group used microcomputers equipped with word processing, spelling, and grammar packages. Results show no difference in students' writing ability or attitude toward writing as a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Business Communication, Microcomputers, Postsecondary Education
Peer reviewedOliver, Ron; Kerr, Trevor – Higher Education, 1993
A study of 240 student teachers and teacher trainees found that students using word processing rather than typing or handwriting on essays received significantly higher grades on their writing assignments. Further analysis found that the extent of revision rather than method of presentation accounted for the difference. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Essays, Higher Education, Revision (Written Composition)
Jacobi, Christina – Educational Technology, 1986
Describes a research study on the effects of word processing use in teaching writing to four fifth-grade boys in a special education program, and reviews other studies on word processing use with learning disabled students. It was concluded that word processing offers great promise to the special needs student. (MBR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Instructional Improvement, Learning Disabilities
Cross, John A.; Curey, Bob J. – 1984
The effect of microcomputer word processing on college students' writing was investigated with three sections of a required freshman English course at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Half of the subjects were randomly selected to use the university microcomputer in a laboratory setting to write eight essays, while the other half worked in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College English, College Students, Computer Oriented Programs
Rohde, Renate I. – 1991
The impact of word processing on students' attitudes and grades was studied using 235 students in 15 sections of freshmen composition at a large midwestern university. Students in the word-processing sections wrote and revised their papers on the Macintosh Plus using the software MacWrite. Students in the traditional sections used paper, pencils,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
Download full textHerrmann, Andrea W. – 1985
In a high school writing class of eight students, a computer was used as a word processor to permit close observation of students as they learned. The class was studied using ethnographic techniques: videotape, audiotape, teacher/researcher journals, student writing, and interviews. Three types of learners emerged: marginal--those who had…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Classroom Observation Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction
Teichman, Milton – Perspectives in Computing: Applications in the Academic and Scientific Community, 1985
Describes students' reactions to and comments on an experimental writing course in which all essays were composed on computer terminals using XEDIT and WATERLOO SCRIPT. Students had favorable reactions to revision ease and enjoyability factor, but reacted unfavorably to learning word processing, equipment failure, and confinement to one writing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Computer Software, Computers
Dalton, David W.; Watson, James F. – 1986
This study examined the effects of a year-long word processing program on learners' holistic writing skills. Based on results of a writing pretest, 80 seventh grade students were designated as relatively high or low in prior writing achievement and assigned to one of two groups: a word processing treatment and a conventional writing process…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Factor Analysis, Grade 7
