Stepwise handwriting instruction produced transfer of shape-analysis to new tasks such as Arabic writing, blueprints, and drawings¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2005 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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Reading the evidence codes

q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q2 i? Children taught to identify indices of letter shapes transferred the acquired analysis method to a variety of new tasks. → Arievitch 2005

Evidence¶

Arievitch 2005¶

Arievitch, I.M., & Haenen, J.P.P. (2005). Connecting Sociocultural Theory and Educational Practice: Galperin's Approach. Educational Psychologist, 40(3), 155-165. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326985ep4003_2

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Handwriting teaching experiment by Pantina (1957) based on Galperin's method of identifying basic units of letter contour via indices placed where lines begin, end, or change direction. The article reports students established the inventory of indices themselves and, per the post-test, "were able to transfer the acquired method of analyzing shapes."

"In the post-test series it was established that the students were able to transfer the acquired method of analyzing shapes to a variety of tasks, such as reproducing Arabic writing, blueprints, and drawings."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

Writing Skills — outcome: instruction changes it

Learning varied tasks of the same type enables transfer to unencountered tasks of that type — a broader claim this one bears on

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`title`	`Stepwise handwriting instruction produced transfer of shape-analysis to new tasks such as Arabic writing, blueprints, and drawings`
`description`	`Stepwise handwriting instruction produced transfer of shape-analysis to new tasks such as Arabic writing, blueprints, and drawings`
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