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Peer reviewedUtay, Carol; Utay, Joe – Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 1997
Examined effects of combining cross-age tutoring, peer tutoring, cooperative learning, and computer-mediated writing in a peer-assisted learning package on writing skills of second through sixth graders with learning disabilities. Found that the treatment group enjoyed working with partners, asked each other for help, had friendships extending…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Cooperative Learning, Cross Age Teaching
Download full textDeFoe, 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
Amodeo, Janis – 1987
This report describes the PlayWrite Program, which was developed in the Montville Township School District, New Jersey, to encourage children in grades K-6 to write. The primary objectives of the program are to increase students' motivation to write; to improve their writing skills through the process of brainstorming, composing, revising, and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials
Peer reviewedHine, Mary Sue; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1990
Eleven learning-handicapped students, ages 8-13, generated text at microcomputers both alone and as members of dyads. Examination of mechanical errors revealed a lower error rate in the dyad condition compared to working alone. The relationship between error monitoring and the social interaction needed for collaboration is discussed. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Error Patterns
Freitas, Candido Varela de; Ramos, Altina – 1998
This study was conducted during 2 school years, involving one teacher and one classroom from each of four elementary (grades 1-2) and secondary schools. The study included writing activities on the word processor, videoconferencing, and World Wide Web use. The main data source was a series of videotapes of the above mentioned activities.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning, Educational Environment, Educational Strategies
Franklin, Sharon, Ed. – 1988
Based on the conviction that word processing can be used to support the key elements in process writing, writing across the curriculum, cooperative learning, and literature-based instruction, this collection of 90 short articles offers a diversity of ideas to help build an enriched student-, language-, and world-centered curriculum. The book is…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education
Franklin, Sharon, Ed.; Madian, Jon, Ed. – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1986
Produced using a Macintosh Plus and LaserWriter Printer, these journals present articles relating to word processing in the classroom. Articles and their authors for the November/December 1986 issue include: "Computer Assisted Instruction: Western Europe" (Owen and Irene Thomas); "FrEd Writing" (B. Fleury); "Writing Up a…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Cooperative Learning, Creative Writing
