How Much Mightier Is the Pen than the Keyboard for Note-Taking? A Replication and Extension of Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014)
Many students use laptops to take notes in classes, but does using them impact later test performance? In a high-profile investigation comparing note-taking writing on paper versus typing on a laptop...
Greg Ashman
80d ago
The study showing handwritten notes are superior to typed notes fails to replicate
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ICYMI, there's a new study out about whether laptops harm student learning.
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Now that the latest incarnation of the R vs. Stata debate on Twitter has exceeded its half life, it must be time to resurrect the laptop wars. The latest salvo: one of the key "longhand notetaking is better" studies failed to replicate.
Study on superiority of taking notes by hand does not replicate. Just an idea, but how about we give students the agency to take notes in the way that they feel works best for them?
Great thoughts by @MDMillerPHD on the new replication study of Mueller and Oppenheimer's Pen Mightier Than the Keyboard study (replication: link.springer.com/article/10.100…)
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