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Writing for all: studying the development of handwriting and keyboarding skills in the Early Years

Team Members

Dr Anabela Abreu Malpique (Edith Cowan University)
Assoc Prof Deborah Pino-Pasternak (University of Canberra)
Prof Susan Ledger (University of Newcastle)
Adjunct Assoc Professor Margaret Merga (University of Newcastle)
Dr Debora Valcan (Murdoch University)

Partners

  • The Smith Family
  • State Library of Western Australia

This project investigates Year 2 students’ abilities, engagement and self-efficacy to write by hand and by keyboard, and also explores teaching practices which promote effective writing development, including practices for teaching transcription skills.

In addition to individual interviews, this project utilises a series of child-level measures of handwriting and keyboarding skills to understand children’s motivation and environmental affordances for writing. The project investigates teachers’ pedagogical practices of handwriting and keyboarding using internationally validated surveys.

Outcomes of this project will be disseminated through practical recommendations for targeted interventions supporting the development of these transcription skills in early education, conference presentations, peer-reviewed publications, news and/or radio.

For further information on this project, please contact Assoc Prof Deborah Pino-Pasternak.