Typing Speed Checker

Children with spelling difficulties are limited in their participation in all written school activities. Our aim is to investigate the effect of word prediction as a tool on spelling accuracy and typing speed. For this purpose, students in grades 4-6 who study in private schools and need to participate in a design research project. We selected 80 children with writing difficulties in the classrooms. The learning task consists of typing 30 words on the on-screen keyboard, with or without the use of word prediction software. The Orthographic Graded Test was designed to investigate whether there is a relationship between the child’s current orthographic knowledge and word prediction performance. The results show that using word prediction increases the accuracy of time and tendency to use word prediction, there is no relationship between spelling knowledge and word prediction