The Influence Of The Design Of Paper And Computer Screen On The Reading Effect Of Middle School Students

Reading is an important way to get information, and people have used paper as the traditional carrier of reading for thousands of years. With the rapid development of electronic information technology, more and more people began to select electronic reading, especially reading on computers. Now, with the popularity of large-size, high-resolution display screen, the rationality of column layout become another important factor affecting the reading performance except for reading carrier. We selected the topic under this background, with high school students as subjects, the number of columns and read carrier as the two variables, aimed at comparing middle school students’ reading effect when using different columns designing between paper and computer reading carriers.There were two parts in the search. The first part was using self-written "questionnaire for high school students’ reading behavior between paper and electronic carriers" to survey the high school sophomore. The results of this questionnaire showed us (1) high school students would choose different reading carriers for different reading purposes and contents.(2)They may change reading strategies for different reading carriers.(3)For different reading carriers, they may like different kinds of layout. The second part was experiment which used2*2complex design, it had discussed the reading effect between paper and computer reading carriers with different kinds of column layout emphatically. The results are as follows:(1)No matter using one-or two-column design, recognition performance of the group reading on computer carriers was significantly better than the group reading on paper carriers.(2) No matter using one-or two-column design, reading comprehension performance of the group reading on paper carriers was significantly better than the group reading on computer carriers.(3)When reading one-column texts, the subjects preferred reading on paper carriers to that on computer carriers; When reading two-column texts, the subjects preferred reading on computer carriers to that on paper carriers;(4) No matter using one-or two-column design, the group reading on computer carriers had a much higher degree of fatigue than the group reading on paper carriers.