Influence of a Font Type on the Quality of Silent Reading by 2nd and 3rd Grade Primary School Pupils
Abstract
This article presents the results of research which was concerned with the potential influence of a font type on the quality of silent reading by 2nd and 3rd grade primary school pupils. Our research findings aimed to discover whether a font type that a pupil uses for learning writing skills has influence on his/her writing development.
The research sample comprised 271 pupils (2nd grade/cursive writing, n=77; 2nd grade/Comenia Script, n=59; 3rd grade/cursive writing, n=75; 3rd grade/Comenia Script, n=60). Using quantitative methodology, we describe data obtained from a diagnostic writing test (Volín & Caravolas, 2005) and an examination of silent reading (Kucharská et al., 2016).
The research results did not affirm a statistically signi- ficant difference in the silent reading test performance between pupils using Comenia Script and pupils using the traditional cursive writing.