Fostering Research Article Reading Habits of Thai Graduate Students with an Intervention through Design Research

Abstract

Previous studies have primarily focused on improving research article reading skills, whereas reading habits are among the factors influencing students’ productive reading in higher education. This study aims to design an intervention to promote the research article reading habits of graduate students in Thailand. The study applies design research and uses the habit formation principle as a design theory. This research also applies user experience (UX) research to gather additional informative data to design the intervention in order to gain more effectiveness regarding an aspect of the participants’ effective behavior. The findings show that participants in the designed intervention can be divided into two groups: the novice and the experienced. The reading habits of both groups changed after participating in the intervention. Additional results provided important information for improving the design models so that they are appropriate for participants with varying characteristics.