Technology's impact on student writing at the middle school level.(Statistical Data Included)

From: Journal of Instructional Psychology | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: Cramer, Susan; Smith, Annette | Copyright information

How does student writing in the areas of organization, voice, and/or ideas improve with involvement in technology rich instruction? Beginning and end of year middle school student writing samples from two matched schools in the same district were collected and analyzed for changes in organization, voice, and ideas. One school was believed to offer technology rich language arts instruction because of a special project called "The Movie Project" in which all students were involved. T...

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