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Students’ notetaking during lectures: an examination of resources, motivation, and learning styles.
Ellen Spender,
Richard Baylis 
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Lukas Helikum
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Lukas Helikum
BAFA Accounting Education SIG Annual Conference 2024
Swansea University Authors:
Ellen Spender, Richard Baylis , Lukas Helikum
Abstract
PurposeIn today’s learning environment, students can take notes in a wide range of ways from the traditional – longhand, to the modern – digital. A recent systematic review and meta-analysis of notetaking approaches concludes that there is no difference between traditional and modern notetaking appr...
| Published in: | BAFA Accounting Education SIG Annual Conference 2024 |
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2024
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66743 |
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PurposeIn today’s learning environment, students can take notes in a wide range of ways from the traditional – longhand, to the modern – digital. A recent systematic review and meta-analysis of notetaking approaches concludes that there is no difference between traditional and modern notetaking approaches by students on performance when all other things are kept constant (Voyer et al., 2022). However, students do not make decisions in a vacuum, so all things are unlikely to be constant. In this study, we investigate how a student’s access to resources, motivation to study, and learning strategy affect their notetaking behaviour and academic success.Design/methodology/approachA survey methodology with undergraduate students is used to collect the necessary data. We collect a mix of quantitative and qualitative data on student demographics, academic success, and notetaking activities as well as specific learning characteristics that may impact their engagement with notetaking. This includes well-established instruments such as the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (Pintrich et al., 1991) and the Abbreviated Technology Anxiety Scale (Wilson et al., 2023).Practical and social implicationsAssessing whether a student’s notetaking strategy is by choice and planned, or forced by modern societal norms and practices, will allow educators and students to question whether other methods of notetaking need to be explored to ensure they access optimal learning strategies. |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |