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Malie, Senian; Akir, Oriah – Research in Education, 2012
Learning approaches, learning methods and learning environments have different effects on students? academic performance. However, they are not the sole factors that impact students? academic achievement. The aims of this research are three-fold: to determine the learning approaches preferred by most students and the impact of the learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learning Strategies, Learning Processes, Social Sciences
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Isaacs, Geoff – Medical Teacher, 1989
Literature on the efficiency of student note taking from lectures and the extent to which students learn as a direct or indirect result of taking notes is reviewed. Attention is also given to the relevance of research in this area to modern lecturing practice and to the problems of such research. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Collingwood, Vaughan; Hughes, David C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1978
During a series of electronics lectures, college students used three kinds of notes: (1) duplicates of lecturer's notes; (2) headings, key points, diagram outlines, tables and references with spaces for additional information; and (3) students' own notes taken during lectures. Student preferences for type of notes, and achievement using the three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Kiewra, Kenneth A. – Instructional Science, 1987
Reviews the literature on student notetaking and review behaviors and the effects of these behaviors on academic achievement. Ten factors that may constrain notetaking and review are presented, and their implications for improving study skills and conducting further research are discussed. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Lecture Method
Annis, Linda – 1980
Note-taking at college lectures is believed to provide an external memory device for review and to require the student to encode the learning material into a personally meaningful form. A closer examination of the kinds of notes made and used by students may help to explain the relationship between the note-taking process and individual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Cues, Higher Education