Who should teacher computer keyboarding?
A knowledgeable teacher is needed to help students develop appropriate techniques, as well as provide motivation and reinforcement (Nieman, 1996). However, business teachers must understand the methodology of teaching elementary students, and elementary teachers must understand psychomotor skill development (Prigge and Braathen, 1993; Davidson and Kochmann, 1996). When first learning to touch type, students need about 30 hours of keyboarding instruction to acquire the ability to use the correct fingers (McLean, 1994).Oftentimes, elementary keyboarding instruction is limited to 10 or fewer hours and the result is poor or no keying skills (Sormunen, 1991).
