The relationship of style difficulty, practice, and ability to efficiency of reading and to retention

Two groups of Ss, one of high and one of low mechanical ability, read a technical passage before an eye-movement camera. An "easy" style and a "hard" style passage were used, and Ss read the passage once or three times. Reading efficiency measures collected were words read per se...

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Published in:Journal of applied psychology 1957-08, Vol.41 (4), p.222-226
Main Authors: Klare, George R, Shuford, Emir H, Nichols, William H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cognitive Style
Human
Practice
Reading
Retention
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Summary:Two groups of Ss, one of high and one of low mechanical ability, read a technical passage before an eye-movement camera. An "easy" style and a "hard" style passage were used, and Ss read the passage once or three times. Reading efficiency measures collected were words read per second and per fixation; retention measures were scores on modified recall and word recognition tests. The high ability group scored better on all measures than the low ability group; three readings yielded superior scores on the retention measures; and the "easy" style gave higher scores on the reading efficiency and modified recall measures.
ISSN:0021-9010
1939-1854
DOI:10.1037/h0047962