digitread

Assessing digital reading skills across ages

Description

In the midst of a pandemic radically transforming our societies, reading literacy in digital settings has become far relevant than ever. Given this context, describing young and adolescent students’ digital reading skills (main goal of this project), which includes the use of textual information from single and multiple documents, is of most interest for both practitioners and policy makers. This is in clear alignment with challenge 7 (National research plan. Society, Economy and Digital Culture), as it specifically deals with the goal of assessing how learners of different ages (from primary school learners to young adolescents) deal with different types of textual documents (single and multiple) and corresponding learning tasks. Over the last months, the digitalization of reading and learning has significantly accelerated due to the growing need to teach and learn from home. Students from different educational levels (from primary school to secondary education) have been moved to digital platforms where they could access the learning materials. It very frequently includes, at least in literacy domains and content-area learning, reading texts and solving learning tasks based on those documents. The challenge of describing the demands of these learning scenarios (using textual information from different types of digital texts), for students of different ages, is more relevant than ever. This is precisely the main purpose of this project. Project goal: to gain knowledge on how young students cope with the demands of today's reading contexts. Specifically, we raise three specific subgoals and their corresponding studies, to be conducted across three years: 1) the analysis of task-oriented reading skills with digital single texts in primary school children, 2) the study of integration and sourcing skills from multiple texts in primary school children, and 3) the study of advanced integration and sourcing skills with on-line tools in secondary and undergraduate students

Developers of the project

Interdisciplinary Research Management for Reading Research

www.uv.es/lectura

lectura@uv.es

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