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The Effects of Color on Reading Comprehension
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Results
Method
- Student volunteers from 5th period study halls
- Reading comprehension test
- 10 students each run, given one of 5 colors of text
- Red, orange, yellow, green, blue
- 10 control participants
- White paper
Hypothesis
- 50 total participants
- Representative sample
- Color in the field of psychology
- Test questions on white paper
- Independent variable is color of reading text
- Many influences on brain
- Dependent variable is test score
- Studied frequently in the past
- “Red is the most effective at enhancing our attention to detail, while blue is best at boosting our ability to think creatively.”
- Can color influence performance on a reading comprehension test?
Previous Findings
- Mean: 2.5
- Standard deviation: 1.4
- Katzir, Helshko, and Halamish (2013)
- 2nd grade students perform better with big fonts
- 68-95-99.7 rule: 1-3
- 5th grader students perform better with smaller fonts
- Only female participants
- Rello (2012)
- Dyslexic participants perform better with certain color schemes, such as black on cream
Discussion
- Lower fixation rates
- Not representative
- Red yields highest average scores
- Suggests features of text can influence performance
- Tied with control
- Green yields lowest average scores
- Confounding Variables
- Age
- Class experiment was run in
The Effects of Color on Reading Comprehension
- Color can have influence reading comprehension skill
Nikki Horton
References
Effect of colors: Blue boosts creativity, while red enhances
attention to detail. (2009, February 6). Retrieved from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205142143.htm
Elliot, A. J. (2015, April 2). Color and psychological functioning: A
review of theoretical and empirical work. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4383146/
Katzir, T., Hershko, S., & Halamish, V. (2013, September 19). The
effect of font size on reading comprehension on second and fifth grade children: Bigger is not always better. Retrieved from http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.00741
Rello, L. (2012, November 19). Optimal colors to improve
readability for people with dyslexia. Retrieved from https://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2012/text-customization/r11