The internal structure of university students' keyboard skills

verfasst von: Joachim Grabowski
Abstract: Nowadays, university students do not necessarily acquire their typing skills through systematic touch-typing training, like professional typists. How, then, are the resulting typing skills of university students structured To reveal the composition of today's typical typing skills, 32 university students were asked to perform three writing tasks: copying from memory, copying from text, and generating from memory. Variables of keyboard operation that presumably reflect typing abilities and strategies were recorded with ScriptLog, a keystroke logging software; these variables include typing speed, keyboard efficiency, and keyboard activity beyond keypresses that become visible in the final text. Factor analyses reveal three components of typing behavior per task. The clearest interpretations of these components concern keyboard activity efficiency and typing speed. Across tasks, typing speed is the strongest individually stable facet of keyboard operation. In summary, university students' keyboard behavior is a multi-faceted skill rather than the mere mastery of a touch-typing method.
Externe Organisation(en): Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg
Typ: Artikel
Journal: Journal of Writing Research
Band: 1
Seiten: 27-52
Anzahl der Seiten: 26
ISSN: 2030-1006
Publikationsdatum: 2008
Publikationsstatus: Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed: Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete: Ausbildung bzw. Denomination, Sprache und Linguistik, Linguistik und Sprache, Literatur und Literaturtheorie
Elektronische Version(en): https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2008.01.01.2 (Zugang: Offen)

BibTeX

@article{61e91e98fd0d4dbc8389743bd1a60ad8,
title = "The internal structure of university students' keyboard skills",
abstract = "Nowadays, university students do not necessarily acquire their typing skills through systematic touch-typing training, like professional typists. How, then, are the resulting typing skills of university students structured To reveal the composition of today's typical typing skills, 32 university students were asked to perform three writing tasks: copying from memory, copying from text, and generating from memory. Variables of keyboard operation that presumably reflect typing abilities and strategies were recorded with ScriptLog, a keystroke logging software; these variables include typing speed, keyboard efficiency, and keyboard activity beyond keypresses that become visible in the final text. Factor analyses reveal three components of typing behavior per task. The clearest interpretations of these components concern keyboard activity efficiency and typing speed. Across tasks, typing speed is the strongest individually stable facet of keyboard operation. In summary, university students' keyboard behavior is a multi-faceted skill rather than the mere mastery of a touch-typing method.",
keywords = "Academic writing, Keyboard efficiency, Keystroke logging, Typing",
author = "Joachim Grabowski",
note = "Copyright: Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.17239/jowr-2008.01.01.2",
language = "English",
volume = "1",
pages = "27--52",
journal = "Journal of Writing Research",
issn = "2030-1006",
publisher = "University of Antwerp",
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