Based on the analysis of 190 studies (18,573 participants), we estimate that the average
silent reading rate for adults in English is 238 words per minute (wpm) for non-fiction and …

In this commentary, the author explores the tension between almost 30 years of work that
has embraced increasingly complex conceptions of digital reading and recent studies that …

This meta-analysis examines the inconsistent findings across experimental studies that
compared children's learning outcomes with digital and paper books. We quantitatively …

A growing number of studies have examined the psychological corollaries of using social
networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter (often called social media) …

Recent meta-analyses (Delgado et al., 2018; Kong et al., 2018; Clinton, 2019) show that
reading comprehension on paper is better than on screen among (young) adults. Children's …

This study explored the influence of reading media and reading time-frame on readers' on-
task attention, metacognitive calibration, and reading comprehension. One hundred and …

Previous research has evidenced a strong positive relationship between leisure print
reading habits and reading comprehension across the lifespan. The rapid evolution of new …

Digital reading devices such as Kindle differ from paper books with respect to the kinesthetic
and tactile feedback provided to the reader, but the role of these features in reading is rarely …

As handheld devices, such as tablets, become a common tool in schools, a critical and
urgent question for the research community is to assess their potential impact on …

Wie lernen Menschen und wie kann man ihnen dabei helfen? In diesem Lehrbuch werden
Theorien und sie stützende empirische Befunde dargestellt, auf deren Grundlage …