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Margolin, Sara J. – Educational Gerontology, 2015
The present research aimed to examine young and older adults' comprehension of negated text to determine the locus of older adults' difficulty in understanding this text construction. Participants were asked to read short passages at their own pace, complete a lexical decision task, and answer a comprehension question about what they had read.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Readability, Task Analysis, Reading Tests
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Robbins, Laura Pope; Esposito, Lisa; Kretz, Chris; Aloi, Michael – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2007
Web site usability concerns anyone with a Web site to maintain. Libraries, however, are often the biggest offenders in terms of usability. In our efforts to provide users with everything they need for research, we often overwhelm them with sites that are confusing in structure, difficult to navigate, and weighed down with jargon. Dowling College…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Web Sites, Navigation (Information Systems), Difficulty Level