Essay Quality of Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: Does the Medium Improve the Message?

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dc.contributor.authorJalbert, Rachel
dc.contributor.supervisorHarrison, Gina Louise
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-02T23:26:57Z
dc.date.available2014-01-02T23:26:57Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2014-01-02
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractDifferences between handwritten and typed essays were examined in high school adolescents with a learning disability (LD) who have writing difficulties. Despite being experienced at writing on the computer and possessing fluent typing skills, there were no differences found between the quality of handwritten and typed essays. Essays were scored against quality indices for lower-level transcription (i.e., mechanics), higher-level text generation (i.e., organization, theme development, vocabulary), spelling accuracy, word count, and grammar. No differences were found across any of these dimensions between conditions. Correlations were also examined to determine any similarities, or differences in relationship among the measures, between the handwritten and typed conditions. Similar associations were found across both conditions for total essay score, lower-level transcription, and handwriting/typing fluency. However, higher-level text generation for typed essays correlated with the measures of working memory, lexical access, and spelling, whereas none of these measures correlated with the higher-level text generation for handwritten essays.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0525en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0529en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0710en_US
dc.description.proquestemailrachel.jalbert@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5125
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectEssay Qualityen_US
dc.subjectAdolescentsen_US
dc.subjectLearning Disabilitiesen_US
dc.subjectHandwritingen_US
dc.subjectTypingen_US
dc.subjectWritingen_US
dc.subjectHigh School Studentsen_US
dc.titleEssay Quality of Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: Does the Medium Improve the Message?en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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