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An Empirical Study of Lecture Note Taking

among College Students
Edwin A. Locke
Pages 93-99 | Published online: 02 Mar 2015

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This is one of the few quantitative studies of actual practices of college students with respect
to lecture note taking. The notes on students in 12 di erent courses were compared with a
set of "ideal" notes for each class. It was found that: one lecture heard by 161 (a) virtually all
the errors in lecture note taking were errors of omission rather than errors of commission; (b)
the average student failed to record nearly half the material which the lecturer did not write
on the board, but missed only 12 percent of the material that was written on the board; (c)
there was some evidence that course policies a ected lecture note completeness; courses in
which the lectures presented a great deal of new material resulted in more complete student
notes than courses in which the lectures presented little new material; (d) there was a
signi cant, positive correlation between completeness of lecture notes and course grades, but

this relationship held only for the material not on die board; (e) there was a signi cant fatigue
e ect, with completeness dropping steadily as the lecture progressed.
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e ect, with completeness dropping steadily as the lecture progressed.

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