As a student, but also in the rest of your life, you will read a lot to gain new knowledge and skills, to be able to develop good solutions and to stay up-to-date with recent developments. ICT is a fast changing field! You are going to read a lot of emails, forums, blogs, professional literature, books and scientific articles in your life, both professionally and personally. The amount of information available is growing every day!
You only know whether the text you have found is of importance to you after you have looked at it. But looking is not the same as reading. If you are going to read everything you find, you will spend a lot of time on texts that you are not going to use at all. A good reading strategy can make this process a lot more efficient.
In this HBO-IT building block for Research in Education, you will learn a suitable reading strategy consisting of five steps: predict, skim, scan, understand and review. With this, you have the skills to spend no more time on a piece of text than absolutely necessary and still get what you need out of it.
If you have any comments or questions about this building block, please contact Danny Plass (Saxion). Translation into English by Jenny Oude Bos.