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Peer reviewedFrank, Bernard M. – American Educational Research Journal, 1984
Fifty-two field-dependent and 52 field-independent female undergraduates were studied under four study technique conditions using a taped lecture. Analyses of test performance and notes taken by students revealed a significant interaction of cognitive style and study technique. Performance differences and relevance for future notetaking research…
Descriptors: Females, Field Dependence Independence, Higher Education, Learning Processes
Hult, Richard E., Jr.; And Others – 1984
The study examined the encoding function in student note taking in relationship to learning from a university lecture. It was expected that note taking effectiveness would be positively related to learning; and, that the notes of high and low effective note takers would differ significantly. After pretesting, a 551-word lecture on research methods…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis
Download full textDenner, Peter R. – 1992
This study examined the effects of episodic-mapping, traditional notetaking, and rereading on eighth-grade students' recall of historical text. Episodic-maps are a kind of notetaking procedure that requires students to represent ideas from a text in the form of a graphic diagram. As predicted, both episodic-mapping and traditional notetaking…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Grade 8
Taylor, William; And Others – 1985
The impact on learning performance of a notetaking strategy called the Directed Overt Activity Strategy (DOA) was evaluated on three types of instructional tasks: spatial learning, simple concept learning, and complex concept learning. One hundred volunteer freshman psychology students from Ohio State University used either the DOA or their own…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, College Freshmen, Concept Formation, Higher Education
Peer reviewedKreiner, David S. – Teaching of Psychology, 1997
Reviews results of an experiment comparing the comprehension and recall of four groups: those who watched a videotape without taking notes; those who took notes while watching; those who took notes on questions in advance; those who orally replied to questions while watching. Comprehension was higher in the interactive groups. (MJP)
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Comprehension
Peer reviewedCohn, Elchanan; And Others – Journal of Economic Education, 1995
Investigates the impact and relationship of notetaking techniques, notetaking functions, and measures of working memory on learning in an introductory college economics course. Compares conventional (taking notes in the customary fashion) with the outline method (recording notes in spaces on an instructor-provided outline). Includes suggestions…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Encoding (Psychology), Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Materials
