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This study consists of 3 parts:
1). Number of letters written in a given time. (group-test.)
Children were asked to write a Japanese “Kana” (for instance) as fast as possible, during a time of half a minute. The results of two thousand children (boys and girls) were arranged in percentile tables according to the difference of sex and school-grades.
2). Analytical study of the peed of writing. Most of the Japamese letters (Katakana and Hirakana) Consist of 2 or 3 strokes, and to proceed from one stroke to the next, the pen is not in touch with the paper. So the time of writing a phrase or sentence may be divided into three parts: (1) the time when the pen is in contact with the paper.
(2) intervals between the strokes of a letter and (3) intervals between letters.
The time-measurements were made by means of a chronograph (unit,1/250 sec.), on some selected children of each a school-grade.
3). Progress with age.
The exact measurement of the time of writing was repeated for many years on a small number of children (five girls). Up to this year it has been continued for 8 years.
Parts of results of this study were reported at the 2nd Congress of Japanese Psychological Association held in kyoto in 1929, and at the 4th Congress held in Sendai in 1933.
Sonic conclusions:-The speed of children's handwriting increases rapidly in the lower grades and more slowly in the upper. The progress occurs chiefly in strokes and in intervals between letters. Intervals between strokes remain almost the same throughout all school-grades. in general girls write more rapidly than boys, but in the upper grades the latter lead the former.
