Reading and understanding digital text that is organized in a non-linear hypertext format can be challenging for students as it requires a more self-directed selection of text pieces compared to reading linear texts. This study aims at investigating how individual differences in students’ skills in comprehending digital text can be explained by their navigation behavior and various underlying s...

This study examines how the initially perceived product value affects a consumer’s purchase intention after he/she reads various tones of online reviews. It proposes that the associations among the initially perceived product value, the level of confirmation made by reading reviews and final purchase intention would differ across review tones that; 1) when the tone is extreme, the impact of con...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of literary reading program on students’ abilities. also focused improving skills in inferential and critical context aspects. An experimental design with a one-group pretest-posttest was used study. 100 student from fourth semester Extensive Reading Online Class as sample. The researchers purposeful sampling method choosing sample this research. resea...

Few studies have investigated the detailed procedure of systematically delivering and teaching metacognitive strategies in higher education. This study investigates whether explicit training could improve undergraduates’ online reading comprehension over pandemic. The results this contribute to teacher education programs teach apply regularly strategies. In a quasi-experimental design, experime...

In this paper, we describe ReadingCircle, a system designed to explore an alternative approach to encouraging reading among students. It is based on recent research on open student modeling, social comparison and social visualization. The idea of this approach is to develop social visualization of students’ reading progress. The visualization will reveal such reading progress through several le...

Current research supports the role of metacognitive strategies to enhance reading comprehension. This study measured the effectiveness of online versus face-to-face metacognitive and active reading skills lessons introduced by Biology faculty to college students in a nonmajors introductory biology course. These lessons were delivered in two lectures either online (Group 1: N = 154) or face to f...

In order to maximize online reading performance and comprehension, how should a designer choose typographical variables such as font size and font type? This paper presents an eye tracking study of how font size and font type affect online reading. In a between-subjects design, we collected data from 82 subjects reading stories formatted in a variety of point sizes, san serif, and serif fonts. ...