{"title":"Individual differences in learning from digital texts: What do we know and where do we go from here?","authors":"Kate Cain","doi":"10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102803","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital reading has become integral in our education, recreational reading, and professional lives. The papers in this special issue explore individual differences in how readers understand, process, and learn from digital texts across different age groups and tasks. This commentary summarises study findings about the similarities in processing information presented on paper and on screen, and the unique challenges that arise through the content and activities that are a focus of digital reading, such as internet-based search and learning. I conclude with recommendations for future research to elucidate how reader characteristics and experience interact with digital reading tasks and texts to influence comprehension and learning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48336,"journal":{"name":"Learning and Individual Differences","volume":"124 ","pages":"Article 102803"},"PeriodicalIF":9.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Learning and Individual Differences","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1041608025001797","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Digital reading has become integral in our education, recreational reading, and professional lives. The papers in this special issue explore individual differences in how readers understand, process, and learn from digital texts across different age groups and tasks. This commentary summarises study findings about the similarities in processing information presented on paper and on screen, and the unique challenges that arise through the content and activities that are a focus of digital reading, such as internet-based search and learning. I conclude with recommendations for future research to elucidate how reader characteristics and experience interact with digital reading tasks and texts to influence comprehension and learning.
期刊介绍:
Learning and Individual Differences is a research journal devoted to publishing articles of individual differences as they relate to learning within an educational context. The Journal focuses on original empirical studies of high theoretical and methodological rigor that that make a substantial scientific contribution. Learning and Individual Differences publishes original research. Manuscripts should be no longer than 7500 words of primary text (not including tables, figures, references).