UDL-Con International 2024
One Font Doesn’t Fit All: Text Personalization Significantly Impacts Comprehension
What if, just by reading with a different text format, your students’ comprehension improved? That is exactly what readability researchers have proven. Small typographical changes to text format can enhance an individual’s ability to read quickly and accurately and to comprehend more. Personalized reading formats are the next offering in personalized learning models with the promise, if implemented for students everywhere, to improve educational, career, and life opportunities. Insights from this emerging cross-disciplinary body of work can inform the design of better learning applications.
Presenters:
Kathy Crowley
Dr. Susanne Nobles
Dr. Shannon Sheppard
Asst Professor, Cognitive Neuroscientist
University of Washington
Presentation
Resources
- UDL Checkpoint 1.1 Offer ways of customizing the display of information
- ReadWorks.org Free online high-quality content, tools, and support for reading comprehension
- Readability Tech Tips
- Lightning Learning: Better Readability in Education with Susanne Nobles, ReadWorks
- Article: Reader Variability – Toward More Equitable Learning and Assessment
Research
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- One Font Doesn’t Fit All: The Influence of Digital Text Personalization on Comprehension in Child and Adolescent Readers (read more)
- NeuroLinguistics and Brain Lab (NeuroLAB) at the University of Washington
- Readability Matters’ Research Page (links to 30+ readability research papers)
- The Readability (research) Consortium, TRC Research Page
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Demos
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