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New Findings Inform the Laptop versus Longhand Note-Taking Debate
The Learning Scientists, The Learning Scientists blog, 2019
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- What it is
- A 2019 post by the Learning Scientists that summarizes the direct replication by Morehead, Dunlosky and Rawson of Mueller and Oppenheimer's 2014 study of laptop and longhand note-taking. It gives the full citation of the replication in Educational Psychology Review.
- How much weight it carries
- A secondary summary written by researchers in the field, not the paper itself. The quotes are the post's account of the replication; check the original article (Educational Psychology Review, 2019) before relying on the exact conditions.
Facts taken from this source
- 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.
“performed better on factual questions than participants in the laptop note-taking condition” (Post on the Morehead, Dunlosky and Rawson replication)
- In the same 2019 replication, longhand and laptop note-takers did not differ on conceptual questions.
“There was no difference in performance between the two note-taking conditions on conceptual questions” (Post on the Morehead, Dunlosky and Rawson replication)