Learning to Use a Wordprocessor: Effects of the Leittext Method

Examines the application of the Leittext method (a training system designed to stimulate active learning by novices) to the domain of word processing. A pre-test post-test control group design was used to study effects of the method, learning performance, preferences for learning activities, learning processes, motivations and learning conceptions. Concludes that there may exist some interaction effects of learning style but the size of the group studied was too small to allow confirmation of this. Describes some ways in which the Leittext method can be made more effective for learning word processing.