Educational stage significantly moderates the digital reading-comprehension association: negative at primary and middle school, positive at high school and university¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? Educational stage is a significant moderator of the association between leisure digital reading habits and reading comprehension (p = .047; R2 = .57). → Altamura 2023 q3 i? The effect size for high school students (r = .085) is positive and higher than that for middle school students (r = -.025), and primary differs significantly from university students. → Altamura 2023

Evidence¶

Altamura 2023¶

Altamura, L., Vargas, C., & Salmerón, L. (2023). Do New Forms of Reading Pay Off? A Meta-Analysis on the Relationship Between Leisure Digital Reading Habits and Text Comprehension. Review of Educational Research, 95(1), 53–88. doi:10.3102/00346543231216463

q3 · i? · quant-synthesis · r?

Multilevel meta-regression with robust variance estimation across the 39 effect sizes found educational stage significantly moderated the association; "the effect size for high school students was positive and higher (r = .085) than the effect size obtained in middle school students (r = -.025)". The relationship turns positive at later stages.

"educational stage was a significant moderator (p = .047; R2 = .57). We performed pairwise comparisons across the levels and two comparisons were significant: the difference between middle and high school students (p = .021) and between primary and university students (p = .030)."

Discussion¶

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