Zoom: Innovative Detailed Examination of Digital vs. Paper Reading

Amanda Goodwin, Sun-Joo Cho, Gautam Biswas

Abstract: Purpose: In the era of COVID-19 and digital learning, IES has identified areas of needed research including exploring how reading with digital devices relates to learning outcomes like reading comprehension. This project team address this need by building understandings of in-the-moment behaviors readers experience (explored via eye-gaze, emotional response, digital behaviors, and highlighting) when reading on a screen or reading on paper to answer questions, which is similar to many classroom and testing tasks. Researchers then consider differences related to different reading contexts (reading static pdfs vs. reading in an open learning environment). They will work with a substantially larger sample than existing studies and focus on an understudied population (grades 5-8). This study will make a significant contribution to understanding how students read digitally as well as suggest process differences between digital and paper reading.

External IDs:doi:10.17605/osf.io/f87sp