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Klaudia Krenca; Emily Taylor; S. Hélène Deacon – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: This study examined how children's ability to understand what they read on screens is impacted by two specific digital features: hovering hyperlinks and scrolling. Methods: The participants were 75 English-speaking children (M = 9.90 years, SD = 0.90 years) in Grades 3 to 5 who participated in an online research study. Using a…
Descriptors: Hypermedia, Reading Comprehension, Digital Literacy, Children
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Haverkamp, Ymkje E.; Bråten, Ivar; Latini, Natalia; Salmerón, Ladislao – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
This study focused on the potential effects of screen size (smartphone vs. tablet) and text movement (scrolling vs. paging) on integrated understanding of text information, strategic backtracking, and intrinsic reading motivation when Norwegian university students read an informational text on either a smartphone or a tablet by either scrolling or…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Handheld Devices, Laptop Computers, Computer System Design
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Christina Kyriakou; Agoritsa Gogoulou; Maria Grigoriadou – Informatics in Education, 2023
This paper presents an educational setting that attempts to enhance students' understanding and facilitate students' linking-inferencing skills. The proposed setting is structured in three stages. The first stage intends to explore students' prior knowledge. The second stage aims to help students tackle their difficulties and misconceptions and…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Inferences, Computer Science Education, Computer System Design