The academic reading format international study (ARFIS): Investigating students around the world

Diane Mizrachi; Joumana Boustany; Serap Kurbanoğlu; Güleda Doğan; Tania Todorova; Polona Vilar

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_21

The academic reading format international study (ARFIS): Investigating students around the world

Diane Mizrachi
, Joumana Boustany
, Serap Kurbanoğlu
, Güleda Doğan
, Tania Todorova
, Polona Vilar

Department of Information and Records Management

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Abstract

This paper presents results from the Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS), the largest investigation of university students’ behaviors and attitudes towards reading their academic texts on electronic screens and print. These questions are examined: ‘When engaging with their academic material, do students’ format preferences and behaviors vary across cultures?; How do their behaviors and attitudes compare among an international sample?; And how does the language of the reading impact format preferences?’ Amalgamated results from nearly 10,000 students in 19 countries show a consistently strong preference for print format, and most respondents do not feel the language of the text impacts their format preference, but an examination of country responses helps illustrate the subtle differences between them. This topic has special relevance to librarians and educators as we search for the correct balance of print and electronic resources in our collections and syllabi.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Literacy
Subtitle of host publication	Key to an Inclusive Society - 4th European Conference, ECIL 2016, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Loriene Roy, Joumana Boustany, Serap Kurbanoglu, Tolga Cakmak, Esther Grassian, Diane Mizrachi, Sonja Spiranec
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	215-227
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	9783319521619
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_21
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	4th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2016 - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 10 Oct 2016 → 13 Oct 2016

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	676
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929

Conference

Conference	4th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2016
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	10/10/16 → 13/10/16

Keywords

Academic reading
College students’ readings
Electronic reading
International studies
Print reading

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Mizrachi, D., Boustany, J., Kurbanoğlu, S., Doğan, G., Todorova, T., & Vilar, P. (2016). The academic reading format international study (ARFIS): Investigating students around the world. In L. Roy, J. Boustany, S. Kurbanoglu, T. Cakmak, E. Grassian, D. Mizrachi, & S. Spiranec (Eds.), Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society - 4th European Conference, ECIL 2016, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 215-227). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 676). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_21

Mizrachi, Diane ; Boustany, Joumana ; Kurbanoğlu, Serap et al. / The academic reading format international study (ARFIS) : Investigating students around the world. Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society - 4th European Conference, ECIL 2016, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Loriene Roy ; Joumana Boustany ; Serap Kurbanoglu ; Tolga Cakmak ; Esther Grassian ; Diane Mizrachi ; Sonja Spiranec. Springer Verlag, 2016. pp. 215-227 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Mizrachi, D, Boustany, J, Kurbanoğlu, S , Doğan, G, Todorova, T & Vilar, P 2016, The academic reading format international study (ARFIS): Investigating students around the world. in L Roy, J Boustany, S Kurbanoglu, T Cakmak, E Grassian, D Mizrachi & S Spiranec (eds), Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society - 4th European Conference, ECIL 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 676, Springer Verlag, pp. 215-227, 4th European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2016, Prague, Czech Republic, 10/10/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_21

The academic reading format international study (ARFIS): Investigating students around the world. / Mizrachi, Diane; Boustany, Joumana; Kurbanoğlu, Serap et al.
Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society - 4th European Conference, ECIL 2016, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Loriene Roy; Joumana Boustany; Serap Kurbanoglu; Tolga Cakmak; Esther Grassian; Diane Mizrachi; Sonja Spiranec. Springer Verlag, 2016. p. 215-227 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 676).

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Mizrachi D, Boustany J, Kurbanoğlu S , Doğan G, Todorova T, Vilar P. The academic reading format international study (ARFIS): Investigating students around the world. In Roy L, Boustany J, Kurbanoglu S, Cakmak T, Grassian E, Mizrachi D, Spiranec S, editors, Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society - 4th European Conference, ECIL 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Verlag. 2016. p. 215-227. (Communications in Computer and Information Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-52162-6_21

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