Recommends journalistic notes be taken carefully in a Reporter's Notebook, organized, catalogued, and dated. (RS)

This mixed-methods study examined cognitive correlates and learning outcomes related to the use of copy and paste (CP). Quantitative results indicated that college students whose CP capability was restricted to a small amount of text as they entered information into a matrix-like tool recalled more facts, recognized more concepts, and inferred…

We examined how first year students (10th grade) of Greek Senior High School could conceptualize the influence of the molecular weight of saturated fatty acids on the melting and the freezing point, during the "change of phase" phenomenon using the Microcomputer-Based Laboratory (MBL) system. Students had to freeze a melted substance,…

This study is aimed at investigating students' annotation behaviors and their effects on learning achievement with pre-reading (reading before class) exercises and Web-based sharing mechanisms. An 8-week quasi-experiment was conducted with 125 sixth-grade elementary school students. The study shows the following results. First, a significant…

This study investigated high school students' notetaking practices and compared them with expert notetakers. Reseaarchers found crucial differences between experts and adolescents. Induced prereading brings adolescent notetakers closer to the experts. (MD)

Discusses McPhee's interviewing techniques, how he handles the mass of notes he generates in preparing and researching a book, how he translates those notes into a first draft, his relationships with editors, and the course on "The Literature of Fact" he teaches at Princeton. (RS)

In an ethnographic interview study, a theory of self-regulated notetaking emerged after 4 phases of study with 252 undergraduates. How a student takes notes is determined by a long history of experience with courses, as well as student perceptions. (SLD)

Examines whether research into students' conceptualizations can contribute to an understanding of taking notes in lectures. Describes an illustrative investigation into student conceptualizations based on a series of structured interviews that examined how students think about the purposes of taking notes in lectures, the content of the notes,…

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to talk to students about their experiences taking introductory statistics. The author met with eleven students individually for four interviews throughout the semester, followed by a member-checking focus group during the last week of classes. One of the most salient themes to emerge was the…

Takes a discourse-analytic approach to study the research that two managers carried out in an educational institution to produce and legitimate knowledge used for decision making. Shows that the writing and reading of notes taken during interviews conducted as part of the research was a crucial step in the construction of the knowledge in which…

A composite theory of college science student note-taking strategies was derived from a periodic series of five interviews with 23 students and with other variables, including original and final versions of notes analyzed during a semester-long genetics course. This evolving composite theory was later compared with Van Meter, Yokoi, and Pressley's…

Designed for adult basic education students at a fifth- to eighth-grade level, these materials explain the use of oral history as a means of learning about the past as well as improving student motivation, communication skills, and attitudes toward learning. Each of the eight chapters in the teacher's guide contains a vocabulary list, objectives,…

This study investigated how teachers help children participate in and contribute to group discussion on problematic moral situations in their kindergarten classrooms and what meaning the group discussion has in a Korean cultural context. Participants were students (N=90) in three kindergarten classes located in Seoul, Korea, and their teachers.…

Investigated how francophone nurses, newly hired in an English-speaking hospital in Quebec, Canada, developed skill in writing nursing notes in English. Data from interviews and observations indicated that social context and mediation were an important part of nurses' ability to appropriate competence in a subgenre of nursing notes in English. (SM)

As readers, children with dyslexia are vulnerable to becoming academically, socially, and emotionally detached from education. Traditional educational practices tend to use quantitative measures to diagnose children to better serve their needs and researchers, who study students with special needs often focus on a deficit model that quantify just…