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Peer reviewedEhrlich, Marie-France; Tardieu, Hubert – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1991
Discusses a study of fast and slow adult readers' textual organization subprocesses. Reveals that title and text type variables were manipulated in the study. Concludes that fast and slow readers processed textual organization similarly and showed identical comprehension performances. Calls for research into the characteristics of good…
Descriptors: Adults, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
Yeaman, Andrew R. J. – 1987
The effects on reading speed and comprehension of window proportions and page turning in electronic text were investigated in this study. Subjects--61 undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin--Whitewater--were administered a standardized reading text displayed as photocopied dot matrix print in simulation of electronic text. There…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Higher Education, Instructional Design, Intermode Differences
Peer reviewedLorch, Elizabeth P.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1987
Examines expository text processing abilities of fourth- and sixth-grade students and college students. Reports these major findings: topic sentence reading times were shorter if a transition question informed the reader of the next topic; topic sentence reading times were shorter if the new topic was directly related to the immediately preceding…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedJandreau, Steven M.; And Others – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1986
Describes two experiments which demonstrate improvement in reading speed as a result of an uncomplicated BASIC computer program which automatically assigns phrase structure to grammatical sentences to produce syntactically formatted text. Both experiments indicate poor readers are aided by this type of format. (MBR)
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Software, Higher Education, Layout (Publications)
Download full textThompson, David R. – 1994
Anticipating a possible future method of newspaper design (including multimedia content) and delivery, a study examined the interface among people, modality (paper, computer, multimedia), and three types of news story (news, sports, entertainment). The "primacy of print" theory (which predicts that information will be recalled better…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Man Machine Systems, Media Adaptation, Media Research
Wallace, William P. – 1983
To determine whether the impressive rates for speed reading (e.g., 500 words per minute) can be approximated in speed listening, two experiments compared the comprehension level of material heard at a normal speaking rate with that heard at accelerated rates. In the first experiment, the major demonstration experiment, three groups of college…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Training, Blindness, Cognitive Processes
Rustigan, Carol J. – 1996
In a study at California State University, Sacramento, the effects of color light and relaxation exercise therapy were investigated with 16 students (ages 23 to 48) with learning disabilities. Therapy consisted of either 20 sessions viewing color light through a Lumatron instrument or 20 sessions listening to relaxation exercise tapes. Diagnostic…
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Color, Higher Education
