Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2019 in the subject Pedagogy – Class Preparation General, grade: keine, , language: English, abstract: This study examines wether a well designed text aids pupils or students to read and understand the text and increase or ease the information intake. It is aimed to offer a guideline on how a text should be designed to enhance the learning effect and to offer the easiest and most efficient design for a student to work with.
The study was conducted in several classrooms of a vocational school in Austria. Given the age bracket which is centered roughly around 17 and 18 year old students, the results could have a relevance for adult students as well.
The study showed that a well designed text led to 18.8 % increase in reading speed, a 13.5% increase in remembered information as well as an 32.1 % increase in testing time. The biggest difference however was the time needed to retrieve information from the text with a 36.9 % In general, wh working with the text, the reader friendly designed texts proved to be easier to read, faster to use and helped in remembering the information.
Herbert Schmidt
Easy to Read Equals Easy to Learn. Text-Design and the Intake and Memorization of Information in a Classroom Setting [PDF ebook]
Easy to Read Equals Easy to Learn. Text-Design and the Intake and Memorization of Information in a Classroom Setting [PDF ebook]
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