Table 1.
Representative institutions and country sample sizes.
Fig 1.
Reported usage of various e-reading devices among respondents (n = 10293).
Table 2.
Ranges of country responses to device usage.
Fig 2.
Format preferences by country, scale total, n = 10,293.
Table 3.
Homogenous subsets by country, n = 10,293.
Fig 3.
Responses to the statement “I remember information from my course readings best when I read them from printed pages” reported by country.
[n = 10293; Agree/Strongly Agree n = 7450, 72.37%; Neither Agree nor Disagree n = 1687, 16.3%; Disagree/Strongly Disagree n = 1156, 11.23%].
Fig 4.
Responses to the statement “I can focus on the material better when I read it in print” reported by country.
[n = 10293; Agree/Strongly Agree n = 8442, 82.02%; Neither Agree nor Disagree n = 1084, 10.53%; Disagree/Strongly Disagree n = 767, 7.45%].
Table 4.
Responses to the statement “I remember information from my course readings best when I read them from printed pages” in percentages by country.
Table 5.
Responses by country to the statement “I can focus on the material better when I read it in print”.
Fig 5.
Responses to the statement “I prefer to have all my course materials in print format” reported by country.
[n = 10293; Agree/Strongly Agree n = 6687, 64.97%; Neither Agree nor Disagree n = 1550, 15.05%; Disagree/Strongly Disagree n = 2056, 19.97%].
Table 6.
Responses by country to the statement “I prefer to have all my course materials in print format”.
Fig 6.
Responses to the statement “I prefer to read my course readings electronically” reported by country.
[n = 10293; Agree/Strongly Agree n = 1320, 12.82%; Neither Agree nor Disagree n = 2039, 19.8%; Disagree/Strongly Disagree n = 6934, 67.37%].
Table 7.
Responses by country to the statement “I prefer to read my course readings electronically”.
Fig 7.
Responses to the statements “I usually highlight and notate my printed course readings” plotted against overall format preference.
Relationship is significant with a small effect size (Kruskal-Wallis H = 2,362.222, p < .0005, n = 10,293, η2 = 0.23).
Fig 8.
Responses to the statement “I usually highlight and annotate my electronic course readings” plotted against overall format preference.
Relationship is significant with a small effect size (Kruskal-Wallis H = 2,067.093, p < .0005, n = 10,293, η2 = 0.20).
Fig 9.
Responses to the statement “If an assigned reading is 7 pages or more, I prefer to read it in print” reported by country.
[n = 10293; Agree/Strongly Agree n = 7496, 72.83%; Neither Agree nor Disagree n = 1197, 11.63%; Disagree/Strongly Disagree n = 1600, 15.54%].
Fig 10.
Responses to the statement “If an assigned reading is less than 7 pages, I prefer to read it electronically” reported by country.
[n = 10293; Agree/Strongly Agree n = 2960, 28.76%; Neither Agree nor Disagree n = 3160, 30.70%; Disagree/Strongly Disagree n = 4173, 40.54%].
Table 8.
Responses to the statement “If an assigned reading is 7 pages or more, I prefer to read it in print” reported by country.
Table 9.
Responses by country to the statement “If an assigned reading is less than 7 pages, I prefer to read it electronically”.
Fig 11.
Responses to the statement “I prefer to print out my course readings rather than read them electronically” reported by country.
[n = 10293; Agree/Strongly Agree n = 7087, 68.85%; Neither Agree nor Disagree n = 1354, 13.15%; Disagree/Strongly Disagree n = 1852, 17.99%].
Table 10.
Responses to the statement “I prefer to print out my course readings rather than read them electronically” reported by country.
Table 11.
Country origin of e-preferrers and all respondents, n = 805, 10,293.
Table 12.
Device usage by format preference.
Table 13.
Homogenous subsets by year level, n = 10,293.
Table 14.
Homogenous subsets by age, n = 10,293.