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ERIC Number: EJ389959
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Encountering Misspellings and Spelling Performance: Why Wrong Isn't Right.
Brown, Alan S.
Journal of Educational Psychology, v80 n4 p488-94 Dec 1988
Three experiments with 220 undergraduates generating or exposed to misspellings between two successive spelling tests indicated that experience with misspellings can be detrimental to subsequent performance. People may store multiple spelling versions of some words. Techniques using incorrect spellings are questionable methods of teaching or testing spelling. (SLD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Recall (Psychology), Spelling, Spelling Instruction, Test Format, Undergraduate Students, Word Lists
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Misspelling