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Strategy‐training related to children's text production
Author(s) -
Søvik Nils,
Heggberget Mette,
Samuelstuen Marit
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1996.tb01187.x
Subject(s) - psychology , mathematics education , control (management) , transfer of training , domain (mathematical analysis) , quality (philosophy) , production (economics) , data collection , applied psychology , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science , statistics , mathematics , mathematical analysis , philosophy , epistemology , economics , macroeconomics
The study dealt with the problem whether the effects of an experimental training programme would improve (1) children's strategies in writing and (2) the quality of their related text production. The study was organised as a pretest‐posttest control‐group design with an equal number of fourth grade students in the experimental and control group. Students in the experimental group were trained on a programme with writing‐related strategies during six sessions in a laboratory equipped with required instrumentation for data collection. The results indicated that some across‐domain strategies and most of the domain‐specific strategies were improved by the programme. Also a positive transfer effect was observed concerning students' writing attainments, particularly with regard to writing tasks based on series of pictures.