Keyboarded scripts were up to 2 years behind handwritten scripts in development. Results showed that children’s compositional quality was superior in the handwritten scripts as opposed to the keyboarded scripts. Only a small minority of children in years 5 and 6 had faster keyboarding than handwriting speed. There was a high correlation between handwriting and keyboarding speed and handwriting speed was consistently faster than keyboarding speed across all ages. Year 5 and year 6 children completed a measure of compositional quality by hand and by keyboard. The handwriting fluency and keyboarding fluency of 300 children in primary school were measured. To extend the work of Christensen (2004) and Rogers and Case-Smith (2002) by examining the relationship between handwriting fluency and keyboarding fluency throughout the primary school and studying the link between word-processed compositional quality and keyboarding fluency.
Given a lack of touch-typing instruction in UK schools it was hypothesized that children’s written compositions produced via the keyboard would be worse than produced by hand. According to the ‘simple view of writing’ then slow keyboarding speed should hinder the quality of keyboarded essay compositions in the same way that slow handwriting hinders handwritten essay compositions. It is well established that handwriting fluency constrains writing quality by limiting resources for higher order processes such as planning and reviewing.
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