Students recall online course content better when taking notes as a team, research finds

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Students recall online course content better when taking notes as a team, research finds

2022, August 29

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Students who collaborate on note-taking perform better than individual note-takers, find research by Matthew Courtney, Assistant professor from NU Graduate School of Education.

Matthew Courtney, assistant professor from NU GSE, and colleagues compared individual and collaborative note-taking and how the completeness of students’ notes is associated with performance on quizzes and academic writing tasks. They focused on 186 students on a course learning how to compose a manuscript for an academic journal.