The benefits of print particularly shine through when experimenters move from posing simple tasks — like identifying the main idea in a reading passage — to ones that require mental abstraction — such as drawing inferences from a text. And yet, they actually score higher when they have read the material in print before being tested. Educators need to be aware that the method used for standardized testing can affect results. Studies of Norwegian tenth graders and U. In the U.
My own research and that of colleagues approached the question differently. Rather than having students read and take a test, we asked how they perceived their overall learning when they used print or digital reading materials. Both high school and college students overwhelmingly judged reading on paper as better for concentration, learning and remembering than reading digitally. With paper, there is a literal laying on of hands, along with the visual geography of distinct pages.
Given increased use of flipped classrooms — where students listen to or view lecture content before coming to class — along with more publicly available podcasts and online video content, many school assignments that previously entailed reading have been replaced with listening or viewing.
These substitutions have accelerated during the pandemic and move to virtual learning. Surveying U. The numbers were somewhat lower in Norway. Spanish Catalog. Learn more about Book Fairs and Clubs. Literacy Solutions. Prime Mathematics. View All Resources.
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