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Measuring and assessing typing skills in writing research
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Author
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Abstract
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| In keyboard writing, typing skills are considered an important prerequisite of proficient text production. We describe the design, implementation, and application of a standardized copy-typing task in order to measure and assess individual typing fluency. A test-retest analysis indicates the instrument's reliability. While the task has been developed across eleven different languages and the related keyboard layouts, we here refer to a corpus of Dutch copy tasks (n = 1682). Analyses show that copying speed non-linearly varies with age. Bayesian analyses reveal differences in the typing performance and the underlying distributions of inter-key intervals between the different task components (e.g., lexical vs. non-lexical materials; high-frequent vs. low-frequent bigrams). Based on these findings it is strongly recommended to include copy-task measures in the analysis of keystroke logging data in writing studies. This supports a better comparability and interpretability of keystroke data from more complex or communicatively-embedded writing tasks across individuals. Further potential applications of the copy task for writing research are explained and discussed. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Journal of writing research. - -
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Publication
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2021
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ISSN
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2030-1006
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2294-3307
[Online]
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DOI
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10.17239/JOWR-2021.13.01.04
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Volume/pages
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13
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(2021)
, p. 107-153
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ISI
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000659987400004
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (open access)
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