Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, Tampere, Finlandiya, 23 - 27 Haziran 2014, cilt.2014, ss.702-707
Digital native students, as opposed to digital immigrants, do more reading on digital
environments than on printed environments. The aim of this study was to learn whether reading
comprehension, the key factor for learning, would be affected by this change of environment, and
whether appropriate text formats for digital natives would give desired results. This study
examined whether the reading comprehension levels of sixth graders who read various kinds of
academic texts differed based on the text format. 113 students participated in the study whose
reading comprehension skills were determined by IOWA test. Four texts in three different
disciplines were prepared for the study. A part of the students read the texts on a linear design
while the others on a multimedia design. The results demonstrated that for all text types, the main
factor on students’ reading comprehension levels was not the type of environment but their
reading comprehension skills