Lezen en antwoorden bij teksten met vragen: Een cross-sectionele eye-trackstudie onder 52 vwo-leerlingen

Abstract

In Dutch education one often uses 'texts with questions' to train reading skills: students study a text in advance and then answer questions, while the text is still available. In this eye-tracking study reading processes of eighth grade (n = 17), tenth grade (n = 16) and twelfth grade (n = 19) preacademic students within this task were observed. It was investigated how younger and older preacademic students (N = 52) differ in their reading and answering processes and how initial text reading influences answering. Results: twelfth graders read texts initially faster than eighth graders, but not faster than tenth graders. Participants generally showed few signs of strategic reading. In the answering process older students knew better where to locate answers in the text and answered more questions correctly than younger students.