Lonsdale, MDS orcid.org/0000-0003-0315-6169 (2007) Does typographic design of examination materials affect performance? Information Design Journal, 15 (2). pp. 114-138. ISSN 0142-5471
Abstract
The present paper reports three experiments investigating the effect typographic design of examination materials has on performance. Significant differences in performance were always found in all three experiments. These differences were always in favour of text and/or question and answer sheet layouts conforming to legibility guidelines. Participants also considered the questions with these layouts easy to answer. The main conclusion was that text and question and answer sheet layouts displaying a combination of typographic features intended to improve legibility facilitate efficient search reading and answering of questions at the perceptual level of reading. The effect of typographic layout on performance should therefore be considered in order to construct valid and reliable examination materials.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2007 John Benjamins Publishing Company. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Information Design Journal: Lonsdale, M (2007) Does typographic design of examination materials affect performance? Information Design Journal, 15 (2). pp. 114-138. ISSN 0142-5471. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/idj.15.2.04lon. This article is under copyright and that publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form. |
Keywords: | legibility; text layout; question and answer sheet layout; reading examinations; search reading |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Design (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Dec 2018 14:20 |
Last Modified: | 13 Dec 2018 14:21 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/idj.15.2.04lon |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing |
Identification Number: | 10.1075/idj.15.2.04lon |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:102494 |