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by Retric
6153 days ago
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Honestly, this is not my areas of research. My mother, who as a PHD in education was vary clear on the point. Going from 100 WPM vs 400-500 WPM increased average retention. Maximum retention for history textbooks where people who skimmed the topic, speed read the subject text, and then skimmed over it again. Slowing down was not useful for retention but re reading even if skimming was useful. If you are interested there was a fair amount of research into this in the 60's and 70's but, it's an outdated topic and I can't find anything on Google. PS: I only learned this when asking for advice on how to study history textbooks in collage. It's apparently a large and complex topic, but most of the research is fairly old. Edit:2 "Slow reading as a problem for learners has been defined by Brown & Hirst
(1983:140) as a "weakness independent of the purpose of reading", involving the processing of
information at such a slow rate that the reader is unable to hold enough detail in short-term memory
to permit decoding of the overall message of the text" http://www.readingmatrix.com/articles/bell/article.pdf. Background Studies on that link has an overview. |
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