Peer-reviewed research
Underlying functions associated with keyboarding performance of elementary-school students
N. Gahshan-Haddad and N. Weintraub, Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2023 · DOI 10.1080/11038128.2023.2188254
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- What it is
- A study of fourth-grade students from two elementary schools. It tested reading speed, attention shifting, fine-motor skill and kinesthetic awareness, and asked which of these predicted keyboarding in copying and dictation tasks.
- How much weight it carries
- Peer-reviewed, but the sample is small and the design is correlational. It shows which abilities go with keyboarding, not which one causes the other, and it is a single study.
Facts taken from this source
- In a 2023 study of fourth-grade students, reading speed was the main underlying ability that predicted keyboarding performance in both copying and dictation tasks.
“Reading speed was the major underlying function predicting keyboarding performance in both tasks” (Abstract, Results)