Kindergarteners with a low initial handwriting level improved significantly in both conditions, with no detectable advantage of tablet-app training over traditional instruction¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2020 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person
Design limits · Nathalie Bonneton-Botté 2020: groups were assigned but students were analysed as independent (read from the study by two models, 2026-10-29)

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Students with a low initial score made significant progress whatever the experimental condition, so the tablet app's specific contribution could not be established for them. → Nathalie Bonneton-Botté 2020

Evidence¶

Nathalie Bonneton-Botté 2020¶

Nathalie Bonneton-Botté, Sylvain Fleury, Nathalie Girard, Maëlys Le Magadou, Anthony Cherbonnier, Mickaël Renault, Eric Anquetil, Eric Jamet. (2020). Can Tablet Apps Support the Learning of Handwriting? An Investigation of Learning Outcomes in Kindergarten Classroom. Computers and Education. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.103831

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Subgroup of the 12-week quasi-experiment (low initial band 0.28 < score ≤ .37, n = 68 per the printed segmentation, including 44 tablet-group students): significant pre-to-post progress in both tablet and traditional conditions. No between-group effect size or test statistic printed for this contrast.

"Students with a low initial score made significant progress between the two measures, whatever the experimental condition."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Writing Skills — moderator: an instructional effect differs with it

Related Claims¶

• Kindergarteners with a high initial handwriting level showed no learning effect on the transfer task in either the tablet-app or the traditional condition — related
• Kindergarteners with a medium initial handwriting level made significantly greater paper-based progress when handwriting training partially used the tablet app than when it was entirely traditional — related
• In a 12-week kindergarten trial, the benefit of tablet-app handwriting training over paper-and-pencil-only training depended on children's initial handwriting level, as shown by a three-way interaction between condition, initial level and time — a broader claim this one bears on
• Initial formation levels are predominantly low and medium in both experimental and control groups, with the high level absent in the experimental group — related