March 3, 2023. 12:00h. On-site session. Language: Spanish.
Stress, new technologies and reading habits in the university population: influence on reading comprehension and academic performance
Carmen Ferrer-Pérez
University of Valencia (Spain)
Reading is present in key moments of university life: from reading bureaucratic information for the formalization of enrollment to reading exam instructions. It is also key for students' learning, since it is one of the main ways to broaden their knowledge of the different subjects. At all these times, students are expected to have sufficient reading comprehension skills to successfully perform these tasks; however, many studies show that university students have deficiencies when it comes to understanding written texts. These problems in reading comprehension have been related to skills not acquired in previous basic training.
As the authors of this study are university teachers, this area would be outside their scope of intervention. However, there are certain factors, such as stress or the use of new technologies, which could be affecting reading comprehension and which could have the potential to influence. In the project "Stress, new technologies and reading habits in university population: influence on reading comprehension and academic performance (2021/B004)" four researchers from the University of Zaragoza and the University of Valencia characterized different variables of the university context and their impact on reading comprehension and academic performance. The main results of this project will be presented in this talk.
Bio
Carmen Ferrer-Pérez, Ph.D. in Psychology, holds a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Valencia. Her research career began with a predoctoral fellowship that allowed her to train in the study of stress from a psychophysiological perspective. Currently her line of research focuses on the study of personal and contextual factors of university students that are relevant to understand their academic performance, highlighting the stress and digitization of teaching. She is currently PI of two autonomic projects: "Stress, new technologies and reading habits in university population: influence on reading comprehension and academic performance (2021/B004)" and "Social stress in evaluation situations in university students (2022/B008)".
