Structured Notetaking and Student Performance in Microeconomics Courses

Benjamin Artz, Denise Robson and Angel Camacho

The American Economist, 2022, vol. 67, issue 2, 211-225

Abstract: Notetaking is a vital component of student learning and perhaps even more critical in the recent emergence of e-learning settings. The conventional literature proposes notetaking increases student attention, provides students an external source of knowledge, and gives students the ability to encode learned material into a form most digestible to them. We utilize a framed field experiment to investigate whether training students in a structured notetaking method improves the quality of students’ notes and their performance on assessments in two Principles of Microeconomics courses in Spring 2019. We find in t-tests, ordinary least squares regressions, and fixed effects estimations that training in structured notetaking positively correlates with both the quality of student’s notes and their performance on course assessments.

Keywords: notetaking; Cornell method; student performance; principles of microeconomics; experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/05694345211072518

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