PROGRESS OF HANDWRITING RESEARCH IN THE 1980S AND FUTURE-PROSPECTS

In 1970 and 1980, The Journal of Educational Research published review s of handwriting research from the previous decades (Askov, Otto, & As kov, 1970; Peck, Askov, & Fairchild, 1980), using the directions for r esearch identified in an earlier article (Herrick & Okada, 1963). We n ow offer an update for the research conducted in the 1980s, with the a ddition of two categories of research efforts that have recently emerg ed. The use of computers has also become a tool in handwriting instruc tion and research, and more sophisticated research designs are being a pplied.