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Peer reviewedBorgh, Karin; Dickson, W. Patrick – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1992
Synthesized speech was added to a word processor used by children in grades two and five. Each student wrote four stories on a microcomputer and received spoken feedback on two of them. It was found that students wrote longer stories, edited more, and enjoyed writing more with the spoken feedback. (24 references) (LAE)
Descriptors: Children, Communication Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction, Creative Writing
Peer reviewedOwston, Ronald D.; Wideman, Herbert H. – Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 1997
A three-year study (grades 3-5) of two groups of elementary school students determined that writing quality improved in a high-computer-access school, as indicated by holistic measures of writing message (meaning and content quality) and medium (quality of the form and surface features). In-class observation supported the contention that word…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Childrens Writing, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Environment
