Academic reading Format International study (ARFIS)
The ARFIS study has been taken up by 25 countries and is being led by Joumana Boustany and Serap Kurbanoglu, (one of the organiser of the ECIL conference). Many of members of the team that coordinated the international copyright literacy survey which we ran here in the UK, are now involved in this study.
ARFIS is the Academic Reading Format International Study to explore the reading preferences of students, originating from work by Information Literacy practitioner Diane Mizrachi at UCLA in the USA. The group have a community Facebook page and we attended a paper presented by the researchers at ECIL 2015 (European Conference on Information Literacy) held in October 2015 at Tallinn University.
Some members of the Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS) research team. Front row (left to right): Serap Kurbanoğlu (Turkey), Polona Vilar (Slovenia); back row: Vlasta Zabukovec (Slovenia), Elena Collina (Italy), Ane Landŏy (Norway), Diane Mizrachi (United States), Joumana Boustany (France), Almuth Gastinger (Norway), Ana Terra (Portugal), and Pan Yantao (China).
The UK ARFIS survey was launched in February 2016 and completed by 655 students from different universities around the country. The findings have been analysed by Juliana Rios-Amaya who is working as a research assistant at LSE. They suggest that most UK students still prefer to read in print format for academic purposes. You can read the full ARFIS UK report in LSE Research Online.
The results of the ARFIS UK study contribute to our understanding of students’ use of technology in the course of their studies. They also help to inform purchasing decisions being made in university libraries over the acquisition of textbooks, e-books and their digitisation policies. Given the requirements to report items digitised under the CLA HE Licence, and the costs associated with this licence, might it be that students in fact prefer a printed course pack?
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Beyond the Surveys: Qualitative Analysis from the Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS)
The Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS) collected data from more than 21,000 university students…
Academic reading format preferences and behaviors among university students worldwide: A comparative survey analysis
This study reports the descriptive and inferential statistical findings of a survey of academic reading…
Preferring Print in a Digital World: An International Study of Students’ Academic Reading Behaviors
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Erratum to ARFIS
Erratum to: Chapter “The Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS): Investigating Students Around the World”…
The Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS): Investigating Students Around the World
This paper presents results from the Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS), the largest investigation…
Undergraduates’ Academic Reading Format Preferences and Behaviors
This study of undergraduates’ academic reading format preferences and behaviors asks the questions: What are…
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The Academic Reading Format International Study (ARFIS): final results of a comparative survey analysis of 21,265 students in 33 countries – Author: Diane Mizrachi, Alicia M. Salaz, Serap Kurbanoglu, …Op-Ed: When reading to learn, what works best for students — printed books or digital texts?
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The pandemic hastened the rise of digital reading for school assignments. But for most students, print is the most effective way to learn.Op-Ed: When reading to learn, what works best for students — printed books or digital texts?
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The pandemic hastened the rise of digital reading for school assignments. But for most students, print is the most effective way to learn.