Keyboarding compared with handwriting on a high-stakes writing assessment: Student choice of composing medium, raters' perceptions, and text quality

Assessing Writing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 4-25

  Whithaus, Carl ^a   Harrison, Scott B ^b   Midyette, Jeb ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exit examination; Handwriting; High stakes; Keyboarding; Raters; Writing assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 46049101994     PISSN: 10752935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asw.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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