Literature mining: Speed reading

Theories of reading should predict reading speed.

Reading speed matters in most real-world contexts, and it is a robust and easy aspect of reading to measure. Theories of reading should account for speed.

Speed does matter in reading

A s a director of a university diagnostic reading clinic, I see children of all ages who, for one reason or another, are making poor progress in learning to read. Our job in the reading clinic is to determine the nature and source of the child’s reading problem and suggest (and implement) instructional interventions for helping the child improve. Often the children we see in our clinic demonstr...

Mobile app reading speed test.

AIM To validate the accuracy and repeatability of a mobile app reading speed test compared with the traditional paper version. METHOD Twenty-one subjects wearing their full refractive correction glasses read 14 sentences of decreasing print size between 1.0 and -0.1 logMAR, each consisting of 14 words (Radner reading speed test) at 40 cm with a paper-based chart and twice on iPad charts. Time...

Reading Malaria Literature.

Guest Editorial: Reading literature and literature reviews

Most scholars would probably agree that literature reviews are key building blocks of good research articles in Library and Information science (LIS). Yet current practices in conducting these reviews may not necessarily be conducive to innovative research because they emphasize the science of the process rather than the art. At the beginning of the 21st century, the act of doing a literature r...