Acquisition of the handwriting technique - a challenge in the age of computers? The way of holding the writing instrument by primary school students
Acquisition of the handwriting technique - a challenge in the age of computers? The way of holding the writing instrument by primary school students

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the problem of the holding the writing instrument in children aged 7-13. For the purpose of this paper, the results of studies carried out using the author's two diagnostic tools were used: "The Profile of Graphomotor Skills" (PGS) and The Chart of Assessment of Graphomotor Skills (CAGS). Empirical studies using the PGS were carried out by the authors of the paper in a group of 300 primary school students of grades 1-6. Studies using CAGS were conducted in a group of 975 primary school students of grade 1-6 by trained diagnostic analysts in the framework of the normalization of the tool in the Laboratory of Psychological and Pedagogical Tests in Gdansk. At particular levels of education the percentage of students who learned to properly hold the implement varied - from 51% do 66%, the percentage of students maintaining a proper distance from the writing tip totalled from 54% to 80 %.

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