Blar i UiS Brage på forfatter "Torrance, Mark"
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Advances in the study of handwritten letters: Influential factors, measures and methods
Fitjar, Camilla Lausund (PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2024)ENGLISH ABSTRACT This thesis is an in-depth exploration of factors that influence penmovement fluency when beginning writers form single letters by hand. More specifically, the aim is to explore how factors within the ... -
Assessing handwriting: a method for detailed analysis of letter-formation accuracy and fluency
Fitjar, Camilla; Rønneberg, Vibeke; Torrance, Mark (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Educationally-oriented measures of handwriting fluency – tasks such as written alphabet recall and sentence copying – conflate graphomotor skill and various higher-level abilities. Direct measurement of pen control when ... -
Cognitive predictors of shallow-orthography spelling speed and accuracy in 6th grade children
Rønneberg, Vibeke; Torrance, Mark (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-05-31)Spelling accuracy and time course was investigated in a sample of 100 Norwegian 6th grade students completing a standardized spelling-to-dictation task. Students responded by keyboard with accurate recordings of response-onset ... -
Handwriting versus keyboarding: Does writing modality affect quality of narratives written by beginning writers?
Spilling, Eivor Finset; Rønneberg, Vibeke; Rogne, Wenke Mork; Roeser, Jens; Torrance, Mark (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06)To date, there is no clear evidence to support choosing handwriting over keyboarding or vice versa as the modality children should use when they first learn to write. 102 Norwegian first-grade children from classrooms that ... -
Learning Handwriting: Factors Affecting Pen-Movement Fluency in Beginning Writers
Fitjar, Camilla Lausund; Rønneberg, Vibeke; Nottbusch, Guido; Torrance, Mark (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)Skilled handwriting of single letters is associated not only with a neat final product but also with fluent pen-movement, characterized by a smooth pen-tip velocity profile. Our study explored fluency when writing single ... -
The process-disruption hypothesis: how spelling and typing skill affects written composition process and product.
Rønneberg, Vibeke; Torrance, Mark; Uppstad, Per Henning; Johansson, Christer (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-01)This study investigates the possibility that lack of fluency in spelling and/or typing disrupts writing processes in such a way as to cause damage to the substance (content and structure) of the resulting text. 101 children ...