Fact · Typing and writing speed
In a 2019 replication of the laptop versus longhand note-taking study, students who took longhand notes did better on factual questions than students who took laptop notes.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“performed better on factual questions than participants in the laptop note-taking condition”
New Findings Inform the Laptop versus Longhand Note-Taking Debate, The Learning Scientists, The Learning Scientists blog, 2019, Post on the Morehead, Dunlosky and Rawson replication.
Open the original- What it measures
- The replication, by Morehead, Dunlosky and Rawson (2019) in Educational Psychology Review, reused the original lectures and tests and added a group that took no notes and a delayed test.
- What it does not show
- The replication did not match the original study's main finding. The authors concluded that the question of which method is better is still open.