Psychologists at Princeton and Indiana University may have found a financially cheap and logistically simple way to improve student performance. Their thesis is as initially counterintuitive as it is eventually reasonable: presenting material in a hard-to-read font will result in greater learning than presenting the same material in an easy-to-read font. Such a claim certainly runs counter to conventional wisdom. After all, shouldn’t educational material be presented to students in a visually clear and easy manner so that they focus solely on content?
