The effectiveness of educational structural factors and text design on students’ reading comprehension

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate and compare the effectiveness of educational variables in the scientific text on the reading comprehension of Islamic Azad University students. The sample group consisted of students studying in the East Tehran branch, 360 of whom were selected by random sampling. To make the text, a raw text unfamiliar and unrelated to the subjects of the students was used, and then, according to the objectives of the project, educational variables were used for each project. One-way analysis of variance was used to analyze the data. The findings of this study did not confirm the effectiveness of text type on students' reading comprehension. The result was not in line with previous findings and research. The study recommends that people dealing with psychology and education should have a clear understanding of the learning process
 Keywords: Text, educational variable, reading comprehension, text organization, university students