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For high school students with learning disabilities, essays dictated to speech recognition were better than handwritten ones, and essays dictated to a human scribe were better still; students without learning disabilities showed no difference.
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In the source's own words
“for students with LD, essays dictated using speech recognition were better than handwritten essays, and essays dictated to a scribe were even better. No differences in quality were found for students without LD.”
Dictation and Speech Recognition Technology as Test Accommodations, Charles A. MacArthur and Albert R. Cavalier, Exceptional Children, 2004, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- High school students wrote test essays three ways: handwriting, speech recognition software and dictation to a scribe.
- What it does not show
- Small sample and 2004 software.
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