Reading Reactions for Varied Types of Subject Matter

Abstract

Statement of the problem.?The problem was a study of the eye-movements of 64 col lege freshmen while reading various types of material. The selections were academic mate rial of average freshman level. The respective vocabularies of the reading selections were equated. Purpose of the study.?The purposes of this study were two: (1) to determine the nature of the eye-movements of college freshmen while reading different types of subject material and to identify relationships that may exist between eye-movements and various types of subject matter during the reading process, and (2) to determine the effect that various parts of a selection have on eye-movements as subjects progress through a 300 word reading selection. Delimitation of the study.?This investi gation was confined to eye-movements while reading various types of material in the fol lowing fields: (A) arithmetic (mathematical concepts), (B) biological science, (C) Eng lish (expository prose), (D) educational psy chology, (E) physical science, and (F) social science.