The relationship between keyboarding skills and self-regulated learning

Keyboardingas writing apparatus is an essential skill in the technological era and more self-regulated learners perform better in keyboarding than less self-regulated learners. In order to indicate this, students registered at the Faculty of Arts for a compulsory keyboarding and word-processing course completed a questionnaire to identify both more and less self-regulated learners. From the literature itis deduced that keyboarding has become a necessary skill for writing in a technological era. The results of the empirical study indicated that self-regulated learners performed better in keyboard skills tests than less self-regulated learners. Elsie Lubbe is Lecturer in the School of Teacher Education (Nature-oriented school subjects) in the Faculty of Education Sci ences, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus). Her research interests are keyboarding and learning. She has 20 years tertiary teaching experience in the fields of typewriting, computyping and computer application technology. Elsa Mentz is Director of the School of Teacher Education (Nature-oriented school subjects) in the Faculty of Education Sci ences, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus). She is an award-winning researcher focusing on computer science education, acquisition ofcomputer skills, and effective application of computers in teaching, learning and administration. She has 11 years tertiary teaching experience. Jan Monteith is Professor at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus). His research interest is self-regulated learning. He has 30 years tertiary teaching experience and has supervised 38 masters' and doctoral students.