Impact of Guided Notes on Graduate Student Retention of Facts

Abstract

Guided notes are an instructional strategy used to help students retain facts, concepts, and skills. Evidence for the effectiveness of guided notes with school-aged children diagnosed with high incidence disabilities is well documented, but research with postsecondary participants has had mixed results, and there has been little to no research on the effects of guided notes in online learning environments. The present study sought to examine the effects of guided notes on the retention of facts in high achieving online graduate students. Results indicate statistical significance (p < .01) in performance with a medium effect size, and students preferred guided notes to assist with note taking during lectures.

Keywords:

• Guided notes
• online instruction
• postsecondary intervention

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The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Ethical approval

All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

Informed consent

Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Funding

We declare we did not receive funding for this study.