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Students comprehend text better when they read it on paper than when they read it on screens.
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Is it true that students comprehend text better when they read it on paper than when they read it on screens?
Partly. A systematic review reports that paper reading outperformed screen reading for comprehension, especially with expository texts, while a 2025 quasi-experiment with Turkish middle-schoolers found no significant difference between print and screen. Both cover only parts of the picture, and neither settles the general claim about students.
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Digital versus Paper Reading: A Systematic Literature Review on Contemporary Gaps According to Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Rurality - PMC Lock. (n.d.). pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe13100142
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B, K. (2025). An investigation of the effects of different text formats on middle school students' reading comprehension performance.. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0331786
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