Keyboarding Aids
Lois Mayer Nichols · Computers in the Schools · 2002
Elementary schools across the United States are striving to find the most effective method of teaching keyboarding to their students. A number of schools make use of sensor-key capson the Dand the Kkeys. These caps have eight elevated dots forming a circle in the center of the cap. Educators would benefit from knowing if, indeed, these key caps make a significant difference in students' abilities to keyboard with increased speed and accuracy when compared to standard keys. This study was conducted on two groups of third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students (N= 95) who completed a keyboarding unit. One group used the sensor-key caps and the other group did not. Results provided no evidence that the use of sensor-key caps improved keyboarding speed or accuracy over standard keys without the key caps.