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Gillingham, Mark G. – 1992
A study examined what happened when a group of adult students read a hypertext for the goal of answering specific questions. Subjects, 30 students enrolled in an upper-division psychology course at a state university in the northwestern United States, read a binary tree-structured hypertext to answer three two-part questions on the topic of…
Descriptors: Adults, Higher Education, Hypermedia, Reading Comprehension
Peer reviewedVauras, Marja; And Others – Journal of Research in Reading, 1992
Examines effects of text structure on reading process and recall performance by monitoring the subjects' eye movements as they read coherently and incoherently structured texts. Finds that structurally incoherent texts are given more visual attention than coherent ones and lead to inferior recall. Finds no clear-cut correspondence between eye…
Descriptors: Adults, Eye Movements, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
Download full textLott, Pam – 1994
A study investigated whether informational graphics help attract the reader to a newspaper story, prolong reader interaction, and increase reader knowledge. Five versions of a small informational graphic and a related 10-inch non-lead story published on the bottom of a newspaper page were tested on 300 participants (a non-probability sample of…
Descriptors: Adults, Color, Higher Education, Illustrations
Peer reviewedStone, Deborah B.; Fisher, Sylvia K.; Eliot, John – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 1999
Investigates effects of variations in font, leading, and justification that account for differences in speed and accuracy between reading aloud from paper versus laptop computer. Finds that: (1) subjects' prior exposure to print significantly and positively related to predicting speed and miscue performance; (2) educational attainment…
Descriptors: Adults, Higher Education, Layout (Publications), Microcomputers
Peer reviewedAbramovici, Shimon – Journal of Research in Reading, 1990
Examines the "levels effect" (the theory that more important text elements are more likely to be remembered than less important elements) in children and adults when reading expository text. Finds differences between adults and children in the extent to which they engaged in the type of processing that resulted in levels effects. (MG)
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Marcinkiewicz, Henryk R.; Clariana, Roy B. – 1997
This study extends earlier research on headings use in undergraduate testing, and examined whether headings within multiple-choice tests positively impact test performance. Participants were employees (n=143) of a large manufacturing plant in the western United States. The experimental group received a multiple-choice recertification test with…
Descriptors: Adults, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
