Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

Abstract

Abstract - All readers have their own strategies while reading. They do face difficulties in using the appropriate strategy because they blend all the strategies to obtain or achieve specific criteria to achieve the desired comprehension, and in the end, they land up in significant confusion and inefficient reading. This paper aims to identify the vital reading strategies used mainly by the technical students while reading a text and further to classify the reading strategies under the designated criteria that are necessary to be practiced developing the reading efficiency among the technical students. Instead, if they try to find out the specific strategy to follow up for gaining the desired criterion, that will indeed help them better read any text. This paper is validated and illustrated mathematically using Multi-Criteria Decision- Making representation in assessing the data collected from students at different engineering colleges, including some central technical institutions. This paper provides technical students with an idea of using a specific and appropriate strategy which helps them in the application of precis strategy while facing challenges in different aspects while reading.

Key words - Reading skills, Strategies, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making, Vocabulary stock, Eye-fixation, Reread, Performance score.