Effects of Pen Diameter And Pen Grip on Handwriting Speed In High-School Students.

Abstract

Writing is an essential skill required from early childhood and is needed in entire life. But writing performance is most important in student’s life,especially in highschool. Completing the papers in time with good handwriting is a task many students are worried for. Many studies have been performed regarding pressure point, writing instrument and surface. This study was conducted to find out the effects of pen diameter and pen grip on handwriting speed in high school students. 60 students were included in the study out of which 40 were females and 20 were males. All the students were given a paragraph in English language and they were instructed to copy the same first with their daily used pen within a minute. After this they were given a large diameter pen and asked to rewrite the paragraph again within a minute. For calculation of speed words written per minute were counted. Type of grip used by each student was noted down by observing.Average hand writing speed with large diameter pen was 25.76+/-3.264 and hand writing speed with regular diameter pen was 23.06+/-3.404. The results of this study suggests that pen diameter has an effect on handwriting speed. Writing with large diameter pen provides faster speed as compared to the regular diameter pen. The average hand writing speed with tripod grip was 25+/-3.10 and with quadropod grip was 22+/-2.7. The results show that grip type has an effect on hand writing speed. In this study Tripod grip provided faster hand writing speed than that of the quadropod grip.