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Engineering for Better Reading | Applied Learning Engineering

Conference Proceedings Published Engineering for Better Reading Performance Improves Educational Outcomes: Applied Learning Engineering Practices Kathy Crowley, Susanne Nobles, Rick Treitman, & Marjorie Jordan   At the 2024 IEEE ICICLE Learning Engineering Conference, a powerful idea took center stage: what if simply changing the appearance of text could dramatically improve how students read and learn? Kathy Crowley (Readability Matters),…

Research Highlight: One Font Doesn’t Fit All

Text Format Impacts Reading Comprehension   Personalizing text formats can improve reading outcomes for school-aged children. Reading comprehension, the ability to successfully extract information from text, is a critical skill, yet many students struggle to learn to read across many countries. In the United States, only 35% of 4th graders and 34% of 8th graders…

SSSR | Research Results: Improved Student Reading Speed and Comprehension

Personalized Reading Formats Studied in K-8 Students   Updated: August 30, 2022 Cross-disciplinary research teams delivered posters summarizing their readability research at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR) annual meeting. The prestigious reading conference reports on all aspects of reading and its related areas, including issues related to word recognition, comprehension, writing,…