Özet:
In this study, the effect of screen reading and reading from printed out material on student success and
permanency in Introduction to Computer Lesson is investigated. Study group of the research consists of 78
freshman students registered in Erzincan University Refahiye Vocational School Post Service department. Study
groups of research consist of an experiment group and a control group. With a random selection 38 students were
assigned as experiment group and 40 students were assigned as control group. In this manner, experiment group
with 38 students used screen reading, and control group with 40 students used printed out material for education.
Study was designed as control group model with pretest and posttest. Both experiment and control groups were
applied pretest and posttest within the research. In process of data analysing, ancova and multiple variance
analysis were used. It was found on success tests that there is not a significant difference between posttests
corrected according to pretests of control and experiment groups. But, a significant difference between Access
and permanency tests in favour of control group was found. Furthermore, dual effect of applied method and
gender on posttest success scores and delayed test scores was found to be insignificant. Results of the studies
show that reading from printed out material is more efficient than screen reading.
