View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Scholarship@Claremont Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Pitzer Senior Theses Pitzer Student Scholarship 2012 Effects of Method and Context of Note-taking on Memory: Handwriting versus Typing in Lecture and Textbook-Reading Contexts Ian Schoen Pitzer College Recommended Citation Schoen, Ian, "Effects of Method and Context of Note-taking on Memory: Handwriting versus Typing in Lecture and Textbook- Reading Contexts" (2012). Pitzer Senior Theses. Paper 20. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pitzer_theses/20 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Pitzer Student Scholarship at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pitzer Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Running head: NOTE-TAKING, CONTEXT, AND MEMORY 1 Effects of Method and Context of Note-taking on Memory: Handwriting versus Typing in Lecture and Textbook-Reading Contexts Ian Schoen Pitzer College Correspondence concerning this thesis should be addressed to Ian Schoen at 1050 N. Mills Ave. Box #920, Claremont, California, 91711. E-mail:
[email protected] NOTE-TAKING, CONTEXT, AND MEMORY 2 Abstract Both electronic note-taking (typing) and traditional note-taking (handwriting) are being utilized by college students to retain information. The effects of the method of note- taking and note-taking context were examined to determine if handwriting or typing notes and whether a lecture context or a textbook-reading context influenced retention. Pitzer College and Scripps College students were assigned to either handwrite or type notes on a piece of academic material presented in either a lecture or textbook context and were given a test to assess their retention.