A Comparison of Two Methods for Teaching Keyboarding in the Elementary School

Lois Mayer Nichols
Computers in the Schools, Vol. 11, No. 4, 1995, p. 15-25

Children as young as the first grade appear able to learn basic keyboarding. Two methods of teaching keyboarding are the focus in the paper. One method involves the use of a tutorial computer program, and the other method involves the teacher and his/her lesson plans. Results showed that tutorial students typed faster, but teacher-intensive students made fewer errors. The tutorial students required 21 weeks to complete their lessons, but the
teacher-intensive students required only 12 weeks and had better accuracy. On the average, female students typed faster than male students.

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