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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
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The Effects of Note-Taking Skills Instruction on Elementary Students' Reading
Chang, Wan-Chen; Ku, Yu-Min
Journal of Educational Research, v108 n4 p278-291 2015
The authors investigated the effects of a 5-week note-taking skills instructional program on note-taking and reading comprehension performance of elementary students. The participants included 349 fourth-grade students from 2 elementary schools in Taiwan. The Note-Taking Instruction group received approximately 40 min of note-taking skills instruction per week for 5 weeks in contrast to the free note-taking group and the free-recall writing group who did not receive any instruction. A note-taking evaluation task and a comprehension test were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the instruction on students' performance in note taking and reading comprehension, respectively. The study yielded 2 findings: first, teaching students a note-taking strategy significantly improved their performance in note taking and reading comprehension, and second, poor readers showed the greatest gains in note-taking skills with instruction.
Descriptors: Notetaking, Elementary School Students, Skill Development, Reading Comprehension, Grade 4, Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Learning Strategies, Reading Strategies, Performance Based Assessment, Lesson Plans, Study Skills, Reading Skills, Visual Aids, Pretests Posttests, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
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