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Evans, Bradley P.; Shively, Chris T. – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2019
A large group of eighth-grade social studies students (N=101) received instruction and practice using the Cornell note-taking system and were assigned to one of three note-taking groups or one non-note-taking group. Students were asked to read an article about persuasion and use their assigned note-taking system to take notes at home. A…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Middle School Students, Notetaking, Study Skills
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Aboagye, Godwin Kwame; Amponsah, Kwaku Darko; Johnson, Eugene Adjei – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2020
This study was motivated by the desire to explore the study skills employed by science students in senior high schools (SHS) in the Cape Coast metropolis across the Central Region of Ghana. A total of 600 SHS second-year science students, 354 males, and 244 females, took part in the investigation. The study adopted a cross-sectional survey design.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Skills, High School Students, Gender Differences
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Villarreal, Victor; Martinez, Anna – Journal of College Student Development, 2018
Interventions focused on bolstering college student study skills--that is, techniques and strategies necessary to prepare for and complete schoolwork and tests (Proctor, Prevatt, Adams, Reaser, & Petscher, 2006; Richardson, Robnolt, & Rhodes, 2010)--have been implemented in a variety of ways, including as part of summer bridge programs,…
Descriptors: Study Skills, Student Attitudes, Intervention, Notetaking
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Chang, Wan-Chen; Ku, Yu-Min – Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The authors investigated the effects of a 5-week note-taking skills instructional program on note-taking and reading comprehension performance of elementary students. The participants included 349 fourth-grade students from 2 elementary schools in Taiwan. The Note-Taking Instruction group received approximately 40 min of note-taking skills…
Descriptors: Notetaking, Elementary School Students, Skill Development, Reading Comprehension
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Kexin Li; Marilyn Lewis – rEFLections, 2016
Investigations into ways students learn to learn have been carried out for decades, with the results of interest to teachers and students as well as to researchers. The present case study aims to add to what we know about learner strategies by reporting the efforts of one student who had, at the time of her studies, no theoretical knowledge of the…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Higher Education, Student Attitudes
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Young, Mark R. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2016
The responsibility for knowledge acquisition is increasingly being shifted to students though the utilization of experiential learning, teamwork, online, and flipped classroom pedagogies. Students are expected to enter the classroom prepared to engage in thoughtful knowledge application activities; however, many students have not adequately…
Descriptors: Readiness, Testing, Study Skills, Learning Strategies
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Entress, Cole; Wagner, Aimee – Science Teacher, 2014
Scientists, science teachers, and serious students recognize that success in science classes requires consistent practice--including study at home. Whether balancing chemical equations, calculating angular momentum, or memorizing the steps of cell division, students must review material repeatedly to fully understand new ideas--and must practice…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Science Interests, Learning Strategies
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Bui, Dung C.; Myerson, Joel; Hale, Sandra – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Three experiments examined note-taking strategies and their relation to recall. In Experiment 1, participants were instructed either to take organized lecture notes or to try and transcribe the lecture, and they either took their notes by hand or typed them into a computer. Those instructed to transcribe the lecture using a computer showed the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Notetaking, Learning Strategies, Improvement
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Boyle, Joseph R. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
Students with learning disabilities lack effective note-taking skills for a variety of reasons. Despite the important role that notes play in helping students to understand lecture content information and serving as documents for later review, many students with learning disabilities are simply not effective note-takers. Many of these students…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Notetaking, Study Skills, Lecture Method
McCabe, Don – 1989
The deliberate rewriting of lecture notes into forms suitable for study and review is the key to successful learning. Using the outline technique helps students to think in terms of what the main points are and what are examples or secondary points. The divided page technique allows students to quiz themselves daily on the material they must…
Descriptors: Editing, Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Notetaking
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Aaronson, Shirley – Research & Teaching in Developmental Education, 1985
Reviews research on psychophysiological approaches to learning and memory, focusing on memory aids, levels of rehearsal, and visual mnemotechnics. Explains and illustrates the use of study mapping, a system of note taking and studying appropriate for developmental reading courses. (DMM)
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Literature Reviews, Memory, Notetaking
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Hughes, Charles A.; Suritsky, Sharon K. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1994
The notes of 30 university students with learning disabilities (LD) and 30 nondisabled university students were compared on the number of cued and noncued information units recorded and the number and type of abbreviations used. Results showed that the LD students performed significantly lower on all variables. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
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Rozalski, Michael E. – Beyond Behavior, 2008
Generally, teachers are good students. Most know how to successfully address a variety of academic tasks demands. Many know how to compensate for any personal weaknesses they have with specific skills. Sometimes teachers are such good students that they forgot what it was like to struggle to learn something. Unfortunately, students with emotional…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, Memory, Study Skills, Learning Strategies
Lazarus, Belinda Davis – Pointer, 1988
Learning-disabled students in mainstream settings can use guided notes to help them actively participate in notetaking, follow the sequence of lectures/discussions, and produce useful summaries of important information for future review. This article defines guided notes, describes how to develop guided notes, and offers tips to maximize their…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Mainstreaming, Notetaking
Wood, Judy W.; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1988
The article gives suggestions for teaching mainstreamed secondary level learning-disabled and other students notetaking skills. Adaptations to help the student when notes are taken from a lecture and when notes are taken from the chalkboard are offered and include giving the student a lecture outline on which to add notes. (DB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Notetaking
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