Miswriting (Especially Mirror Writing) of the Digits: An Ecological Assessment Using ELFE Data

Autor/inn/en	Fischer, Jean-Paul; Thierry, Xavier
Titel	Miswriting (Especially Mirror Writing) of the Digits: An Ecological Assessment Using ELFE Data
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 20 (2021) 1, S.3-17 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Fischer, Jean-Paul)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1945-8959
DOI	10.1891/JCEP-D-19-00053
Schlagwörter	Writing Difficulties; Foreign Countries; Numeracy; Mathematics Skills; Reading Skills; Preschool Children; Handedness; Handheld Devices; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schreibstörung; Ausland; Rechenkompetenz; Mathmatics achievement; Mathematics ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Linkshändigkeit; Frankreich
Abstract	The French National Cohort of Children Study ("Etude Longitudinale Française depuis l'Enfance"--ELFE) tested the literacy and numeracy skills of 4- to 5-year-old typically developing children in the second year of "école maternelle." Tasks were administered by more than 4,000 teachers at schools across France. One of the study's numeracy tasks required participants to write the number of ducks (up to 5) they had counted. Analyzing the digits written by 14,904 children showed that miswritings were much more common for the digit 3 than for the digit 4. This result is consistent with the right-orienting rule, which young children in Western cultures apply when they do not know a digit's orientation, and which leads them to write, for example, [backwards "3"] instead of 3. The nature and frequency of miswritten digits did not differ significantly between the 466 children presumed to have written with their left hand and the 3,531 children presumed to have written with their right hand. However, a logistic mixed-effects regression showed that two other factors--age of entry to "école maternelle" and very early smartphone use--had a (modest) influence on the percentage of digits that were miswritten. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01