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Washington, March 9, 2021 A comprehensive meta-analysis of prior research has found, overall, that children ages 1 to 8 were less likely to understand picture books when they read the digital, versus print, version. However, when digital picture books contain the right enhancements that reinforce the story content, they outperform their print counterparts. The results were published today in
Review of Educational Research, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.
Authors Natalia Kucirkova at the University of Stavanger in Norway and The Open University in the United Kingdom, and May Irene Furenes and Adriana G. Bus at the University of Stavanger, analyzed the results of 39 studies that included a total 1,812 children between the ages of 1 and 8. For their analysis, the authors compared children s story comprehension and vocabulary learning when they read a book on paper versus on screen, and assessed the effects of story-related enhanceme
Most e-books harm children learning to read, research finds, as technology distracts from stories
Digital books including games at the end of chapters were found to have particularly negative effects on young children s learning
9 March 2021 • 3:00pm
Print books outperformed their technological alternatives when children between one and eight were assessed on their comprehension of what they had read
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Most ebooks actually harm children in their efforts to learn to read because the added use of technology can be distracting, research has found.
In a comprehensive review of 39 different studies, researchers found that children aged one to eight-years-old were less likely to understand picture books when they read the digital version compared to the print.
Children ages 1 to 8 are less likely to understand picture books when they read them in digital formats as opposed to print, an analysis published Tuesday by the Review of Educational Research found.
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