The Role of Strategic Backtracking When Reading to Comprehend Digital Informational Text on Mobile Devices (Poster 2)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Eight
  In Poster Session: Literacy Poster Session Three

Abstract

We investigated direct and indirect relationships between strategic backtracking and integrated text understanding as reflected in students’ post-reading written reports when undergraduates read a digital informational text on a tablet or a smartphone. Backtracking during reading was a unique positive predictor of integrated text understanding when variance associated with working memory, reading comprehension skills, and processing time were controlled for. Further, the relationship between backtracking and integrated text understanding was mediated by students’ productivity in the form of the extent of their written reports. These findings are consistent with the notion that a deeper approach is beneficial when reading digital informational text for understanding and may, thus, form the basis of intervention work targeting adaptive processing in digital reading environments.

Authors

• Ymkje Elisabeth Haverkamp, University of Oslo
  Presenting Author

• Ivar Braten, University of Oslo
  Non-Presenting Author