I am sure students can also come up with individual systems that work best for them. LECTURE NOTES Note-taking during classroom lectures is similar to taking notes while reading textbooks.

Get tips on how to take effective notes and find different strategies for taking notes, compiled by the Writing & Speaking Center at the University of Nevada, Reno.

The debate continues over whether students are better served by taking their class notes longhand or on a laptop. The research is in, but the jury is still out.

A 2024 meta-analysis of 24 international studies showed taking lecture notes by hand resulted in stronger overall test performance and course grades for undergraduate students.

Researchers Pam Mueller and Daniel M. Oppenheimer found that students remember more via taking notes longhand rather than on a laptop. It has to do with what happens when you're forced to slow down.

This is one of the few quantitative studies of actual practices of college students with respect to lecture note taking. The notes on one lecture heard by 161 students in 12 different courses were ...

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