[Question] Study of note taking with Pens vs. Laptops
6mon 12d ago by feddit.online/u/Unattributed in fountainpens
I have heard several times some fountain pen enthusiasts reference a study that showed that taking notes with a pen and paper encouraged more active engagement, and better retention of material being presented in a class or a conference, than people using a laptop, tablet, etc. (ie, typing).
Does anyone know the exact reference for this study? Most of the time I only hear vague references like "a study found..." or "a study conducted at XYZ University", and I would like to find the actual study and read it for myself.
Thanks! I glanced over this article - looks very detailed, and quite interesting.
Quite a few first source references at the end too.
Yes, I noticed that with all the papers here -- there is quite the rabbit hole to explore.
@Unattributed Don't know which study you're talking about, here is a list of articles I quickly found
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-024-09914-w
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11251-018-9458-0
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8143381/
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1517235/full
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8222525/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797614524581
This is an excellent list of articles. Thank you very much!
It indeed appears the rabbit hole is deep on this topic...
@Unattributed
Pretty sure sbrebrown mentions a paper but I didn't listen carefully enough to go find it.
https://youtu.be/GgpOZcLoR5Y
Thanks. I think he is one of the people that I remember mentioning it (for some reason, I think Hemingway Jones was another person that mentioned it).
But, as I stated: I wanted the actual study articles, not a third party references. Third parties are often unreliable, either because they mis-interpreted the information, or because they got it from an unreliable source. Best to go back to "the horse's mouth" so to speak.
@Unattributed
Like I said, he mentioned at least one paper. Listen to the video and there may be more.
His statement at 2:05 is inaccurate. He says, "They found that students who wrote by hand had higher achievement..." But, no, that's not the correct conclusion based on the study he cited. The study he cites is a meta analysis (which he stated), so the takeaway should have been that the surveyed studies found a trend supporting the supposition that students who took long hand notes had higher achievement.
This makes the point I was talking about: getting information from secondary (or in this case, tertiary) sources is often unreliable. However, I do like that he cited an actual study, and that study (since it's a meta analysis) will include references to the studies they surveyed.
I'll listen to the rest of the video and to see if he cites anything else.