University of Valencia, Avda. Blasco Ibáñez, 21, 46010, Valencia, Spain.
Behav Res Methods. 2011 Mar;43(1):179-92. doi: 10.3758/s13428-010-0032-1.
We present an application to study task-oriented reading processes called Read&Answer. The application mimics paper-and-pencil situations in which a reader interacts with one or more documents to perform a specific task, such as answering questions, writing an essay, or similar activities. Read&Answer presents documents and questions with a mask. The reader unmasks documents and questions so that only a piece of information is available at a time. This way the entire interaction between the reader and the documents on the task is recorded and can be analyzed. We describe Read&Answer and present its applications for research and assessment. Finally, we explain two studies that compare readers' performance on Read&Answer with students' reading times and comprehension levels on a paper-and-pencil task, and on a computer task recorded with eye-tracking. The use of Read&Answer produced similar comprehension scores, although it changed the pattern of reading times.
我们介绍了一个名为 Read&Answer 的应用程序，用于研究面向任务的阅读过程。该应用程序模拟了读者与一个或多个文档交互以执行特定任务（如回答问题、写论文或类似活动）的纸笔情况。Read&Answer 使用遮罩呈现文档和问题。读者揭开文档和问题的遮罩，以便一次仅显示一条信息。这样，读者与文档之间的整个交互过程都被记录下来，并可以进行分析。我们描述了 Read&Answer 及其在研究和评估中的应用。最后，我们解释了两项研究，这些研究将 Read&Answer 上的读者表现与纸笔任务和眼动追踪记录的计算机任务上的阅读时间和理解水平进行了比较。使用 Read&Answer 产生了相似的理解分数，尽管它改变了阅读时间的模式。
