NOTES AND LEARNING FROM LECTURES 1 Notes and Learning from Lectures

College students spend many hours sitting in class listening to lectures and taking notes with hopes to pass an exam and to furthermore pass a class. To what extent does the quality and nature of these notes affect their performance on a quiz? Students of an Undergraduate Educational Psychology course were instructed to take notes on a videotaped lecture in preparation for an in class, weekly quiz of the material. They were also instructed to complete a questionnaire about their study and note-taking habits. There was a significant positive correlation between the total quality of notes and performance on quiz. However, there was not a significant relationship between self-reported study habits and performance on the quiz. The results suggest there is a variation between note taking skill among college students and students are not necessarily good judges of their quality of note-taking and study habits