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PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF THE TACTUS™ TOUCH TYPING KEYBOARD
IN AN AUSTRALIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
A. Sabato (1), S. Moodie (2)
1 Tactus Keyboard Corporation, Mosman, NSW
2 Middle Harbour Public School, Mosman, NSW
Presented at ACEC2002, July 2002, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Summary
This study involved 25 Year 8 students from Middle Harbour
Public School in NSW. One half of the students used computers
equipped with the TACTUS keyboard, the other half used computers
equipped with a standard IBM keyboard. The study ran for the
duration of one term (nine weeks). A timed test, which measured
typing speed, was administered to the students at the beginning
and at the end of the study. The increase in typing speed,
adjusted for accuracy, between the entrance test and the exit
test was calculated for each student. The results show that
the improvement in the touch typing skills of the test group,
who used the TACTUS keyboard, was greater than the improvement
in the control group and the difference was statistically
significant.
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