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Keywords
Penmanship--Study and teaching;
Abstract
It has been the policy in the Waterloo school system for the past sixteen years to make the transition from manuscript to cursive handwriting during the last six to eight weeks in second grade. The first part of third grade is spent in a review of the formation of the small and capital cursive letters. Cursive writing is taught throughout the remainder of third grade and used as the primary writing tool throughout the grades. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the quality and rate of cursive writing were affected by delaying the starting of instruction in this form of writing until the beginning of third grade instead of teaching it during the latter half of second grade as is customary in Waterloo. The writing of two groups of children, each group taught according to one of these two schedules, was compared after sixteen weeks of instruction and again when both reached the end of third grade .
Year of Submission
1959
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Education
Department
Department of Education and Psychology
First Advisor
Nellie D. Hampton
Second Advisor
Ross M. Jewell
Third Advisor
Dorothy Koehring
Date Original
1959
Object Description
1 PDF file (80 leaves)
Copyright
©1959 Mary Elizabeth Fredrikson
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Fredrikson, Mary Elizabeth, "The Effects on the Quality and Rate of Cursive Writing of a Seven Months Delay in Its Introduction in the Waterloo Schools" (1959). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2699.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2699
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