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Age differences in efficiency of reading comprehension from printed versus computer-displayed text
Author(s)	Bonnie J F Meyer, Leonard W Poon
Journal title	Educational Gerontology, vol 23, no 8, December 1997
Pages	pp 789-807
Keywords	Age groups [elderly] ; Reading ; Computers ; Cognitive processes ; Performance ; United States of America.
Annotation	Computer technology has become an important aid in examining the ageing process as it relates to reading, by allowing researchers to measure and control processing time. This study compared two types of computer presentations (investigator-paced, and self-paced by the reader) to reading from the printed page. Older adults were most efficient in their reading comprehension when reading from the printed page, while young adults were most efficient from computer-paced text. Although reading is a highly practised skill, computer presentation is much less familiar to older people. An overestimation of age differences with misleading findings may occur if computers are routinely used to study age differences in reading comprehension. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-980716004 A
Classmark	BB: HKM: 3O: DA: 5H: 7T
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