Het effect van sociale media meldingen op leesbegrip

Within school environments many texts are read on screens. These screens are often multifunctional and used for multiple tasks. This opens up the possibility of distractions in the form of pop-up notifications. The current study looks at the effect of pop-up notifications on reading comprehension. It makes use of the contradiction paradigm, which uses reading times to comment on the storing of information in a reader’s working memory. The paradigm can be used when comparing consistent stories with contradicting stories. Target sentences in contradicting stories are read slower than the same sentences in consistent stories. In the current study twenty-one participants, read a total of 60 stories. Half of these stories are interrupted by pop-ups, making four conditions: uninterrupted consistent; uninterrupted contradicting; interrupted consistent stories and interrupted, contradicting stories. The reading times of the target sentences in different conditions are compared. The first...Show moreWithin school environments many texts are read on screens. These screens are often multifunctional and used for multiple tasks. This opens up the possibility of distractions in the form of pop-up notifications. The current study looks at the effect of pop-up notifications on reading comprehension. It makes use of the contradiction paradigm, which uses reading times to comment on the storing of information in a reader’s working memory. The paradigm can be used when comparing consistent stories with contradicting stories. Target sentences in contradicting stories are read slower than the same sentences in consistent stories. In the current study twenty-one participants, read a total of 60 stories. Half of these stories are interrupted by pop-ups, making four conditions: uninterrupted consistent; uninterrupted contradicting; interrupted consistent stories and interrupted, contradicting stories. The reading times of the target sentences in different conditions are compared. The first research question focuses on the overall effect of pop-ups on reading comprehension, by comparing the reading times in all four conditions. No significant difference in reading times was found. Therefore no evidence was found for an effect of pop-ups on reading comprehension. Research question two looked into a difference in response to the interruption, between people with lower and higher levels of reading skills. Participants were divided into two groups based on a Maze Task. The results show no significant difference in reading times between the groups. The last research question looked at the effect of interruptions on the answering of comprehension questions asked directly after reading the texts. There was no significant difference in the percentage of questions answered correctly between interrupted and uninterrupted texts. Therefore no evidence was found for an effect of pop-up notifications on reading comprehension. In total the current study found no evidence of a negative effect of pop-ups on reading comprehension.Show less

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