One hundred four college students completed the Forty-Item Self-Disclosure Questionnaire (FISDQ) and neuroticism and social desirability subscales from the Comrey Personality Scales. Two weeks later, 76 of them volunteered for a study of handwriting analysis. The handwriting analysis was actually an attempt to obtain a behavioral measure of…

Reported are results of an evaluation of the handwriting skills of first, second, and third level students who were part of an urban early childhood education project for culturally disadvantaged children in Paterson, New Jersey. Provided is a summary of A. Gesell and F. Ilg's recommendations for handwriting instruction for kindergarten through…

After defining key terms, the article discusses options for the written language assessment of handicapped children in the areas of composition evaluation, and transcription evaluation. Types of evaluating include indirect measures, direct measures, process evaluation, product evaluation, holistic evaluation, and analytic evaluation. (DB)

Printing and writing skills and their interaction were studied to discover if teachers should not teach cursive writing to students with poor printing skills. Writing samples were analyzed using a diagnostic inventory that focused on major elements of form and neatness. Results are discussed. (Author/DF)

Discusses public library rule that requires young children to print their names legibly to qualify for a library card. The case of a scribbling kindergartener, reading and writing readiness, comments on requirement from several children's-services coordinators in public libraries, printing size, skinny pencils, and the parents' ultimate…

Page prompts and beginning handwriting legibility were examined in a study of handwriting and teacher ratings of writing legibility. The relation of letter prompting to legibility was found to be dependent on the measure of legibility used. (Author/DF)

The study reported here represents an attempt to obtain research-based information relevant to young children's learning to print. Treatment variables were selected which seemed to have high potential for improving the state of handwriting instruction. (Author)

Discusses the various aspects of writing instruction from teaching English script to teaching composition. (EKN)

Since junior high students frequently claim that they can't draw, the author suggests initiating visual expression activities through a skill they do have confidence in--their handwriting. She outlines several drawing exercises in which letters are used to express movement. (SJL)

The study focused on effects of electromyographic (EMG) muscle relaxation training on academic abilities of four learning disabled boys (8 to 13 years old). Ss learned to voluntarily control and decrease forearm muscular tension; and this apparently resulted in an increase in cognitive efficiency, at least as it relates to basic academic areas of…

Treat and cure 12 handwriting diseases to give new life to an old subject. (Editor)