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Don't Ditch the Laptop Just Yet: Replication Finds No Immediate Advantage to Writing Notes by Hand
Association for Psychological Science, APS Observer, 2021
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- What it is
- The society's summary of a 2021 direct replication of the well-known pen versus laptop note-taking study, with a meta-analysis.
- How much weight it carries
- The publisher is the society that published the paper in Psychological Science. It is a summary of the study by Urry and colleagues.
Facts taken from this source
- Both the original and the replication found that typed notes contained more words and more verbatim overlap with the lecture than handwritten notes.
“typed notes contained more words and exhibited a greater degree of verbatim overlap than” (Summary)
- A 2021 replication and meta-analysis concluded that the effect of typing versus writing notes by hand was not statistically significant.
“And their meta-analysis supported the conclusion that the effect of typing versus writing notes by hand was not statistically significant.” (Summary)