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So despite containing cursive in the title, the first study appears to be comparing handwriting as a whole vs typing, not print vs cursive handwriting. The sec
by Macha 4y ago
So despite containing cursive in the title, the first study appears to be comparing handwriting as a whole vs typing, not print vs cursive handwriting.
The second study compares handwriting vs tracing vs typing, again no cursive vs print.
The third study compares drawing vs typing, it doesn't address handwriting.
Also all of them are using proxy measures like brain activity and not recall of the studied material.
I could actually accept the more laborious and slower process of handwriting may slow kids down and therefore spend more time thinking about a subject as a hypothesis, but that's not what was tested here. Such a hypothesis would however favour print handwriting more than the theoretically faster cursive.
- AlchemistCamp 4y agoHere’s one more narrowly focused on what you’re looking for. It compares students taught cursive writing, printing and a mix of both. The students who only printed lagged on every metric: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/langandlit/article/download/11028/13067 https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/langandlit/index.php/la...
- robocat 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_c... Does the paper have any relevance to whether teaching cursive helps (causes) learning more generally?
- titoCA321 4y agoEnough with "studies." I have multiple studies correlating that smokers survive COVID-19 hospitalization better than non-smokers. Should we adopt smoking as a health policy against COVID? I don't think it would be a wise recommendation when factoring in other health risks associated with smoking. There's a few studies showing how SAT scores declined once American studies stopped praying in school.