Table 5.
Mean and SD values of the frequencies of using three online reading strategies.
| Strategy | Task type | High reading ability | Low reading ability | Post-hoc comparison | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linear texts | Hypertexts | Linear texts | Hypertexts | |||||||
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |||
| Searching | w/o goals | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Non-significant |
| w/ goals | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.26 | 1.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.22 | 1.02 | ||
| Free browsing | w/o goals | 22.26 | 8.13 | 7.44 | 7.81 | 16.91 | 7.16 | 6.44 | 4.66 | Interaction |
| w/ goals | 18.74 | 7.47 | 12.70 | 6.83 | 17.26 | 7.15 | 10.09 | 6.21 | ||
| Comprehension monitoring | w/o goals | 0.22 | 0.51 | 0.04 | 0.20 | 0.04 | 0.20 | 0.04 | 0.20 | |
| w/ goals | 0.22 | 0.51 | 0.13 | 0.45 | 0.26 | 0.67 | 0.00 | 0.00 | Linear text > hypertext | |
w/o goals, without goals; w/ goals, with goals.