{"title":"Back to basics: How reading the text and taking notes improves learning","authors":"Patrick Gourley","doi":"10.1016/j.iree.2021.100217","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Instructors regularly assign textbook readings and encourage students to take notes on those readings. Despite this being standard preparation for many courses, there has been little scholarship on how much this pre-lecture preparation helps students learn. Using a panel data set that leverages student fixed effects<span><span>, the impact that reading the text and taking notes has on quizzes and exams in an Introduction to Microeconomics course is quantified. I find that taking a page of pre-lecture notes and reading the text increases quiz grades by up to a </span>standard deviation. With regard to exams, when students take notes on the textbook their scores also increase, in some cases by a full letter grade. These results show even a small amount of preparation can have a significant impact on student achievement.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":1,"journal":{"name":"Accounts of Chemical Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":16.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.iree.2021.100217","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Accounts of Chemical Research","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477388021000098","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Instructors regularly assign textbook readings and encourage students to take notes on those readings. Despite this being standard preparation for many courses, there has been little scholarship on how much this pre-lecture preparation helps students learn. Using a panel data set that leverages student fixed effects, the impact that reading the text and taking notes has on quizzes and exams in an Introduction to Microeconomics course is quantified. I find that taking a page of pre-lecture notes and reading the text increases quiz grades by up to a standard deviation. With regard to exams, when students take notes on the textbook their scores also increase, in some cases by a full letter grade. These results show even a small amount of preparation can have a significant impact on student achievement.
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Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance.
Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.
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