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¶
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Evidence · 1 study · causalr2·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)
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q2 i? Tukey HSD post hoc tests on the paper-and-pencil transfer task revealed a significant effect of experimental condition only for children with a medium initial level. → 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
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Post hoc Tukey HSD tests (set at the .05 level) following the 2x3x2 ANOVA on pre/post paper-and-pencil writing scores of 233 children; the tablet-app condition outperformed traditional instruction "only for children with a medium initial level". Only p-level significance printed, no effect size.
"These revealed a significant effect of experimental condition, but only for children with a medium initial level. No learning effect was observed for students with a high initial level in either experimental group."
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 low initial handwriting level improved significantly in both conditions, with no detectable advantage of tablet-app training over traditional instruction — 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
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