Activity 2: Should students take notes on a laptop or with pen and paper Taking

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Activity 2: Should students take notes on a laptop or with pen and paper Taking notes on laptops rather than in longhand is increasingly common. Many researchers have that laptop note taking is less effective than longhand note taking for learning. Prior studies have primarily focused on students' capacity for multitasking and distraction when using laptops. A recent paper summarizes three studies on this topic, and in this activity we will consider the first study. The authors hypothesize that even when laptops are used solely to take notes, they may still impair learning because their use results in shallower processing. 67 students, approximately an equal number of males and females, were recruited from the Princeton University subject pool. In this study, the goal was to determine college students' understanding of video talks (TED Talks) when viewed in small groups. Each video was about 15 minutes in length and covered topics that would be interesting but not common knowledge. Prior to viewing the videos, students were randomly assigned to a room where they either took notes: 1) longhand on paper or 2) on Internet-less laptops while watching the videos. They were not given any strategies with regard to taking notes. about 30 Participants were next taken to a lab where they completed three distractor tasks which lasted minutes. After this, they were given a test which was based on the information provided in the videos and ncluded both factual and conceptual questions. Each test was graded by a person who method was used to take the notes. Three key findings from this study are: no difference in scores between laptop users and longhand note-takers on the factual questions . with the conceptual questions, laptop users performed significantly worse. .laptop uses wrote an average of 309 words compared to an average of 173 words for those taking notes longhand. This was also a significant difference. Based on the provided information: 1.ill identify the explanatory variable 2identify the three response variables when considering the find

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1. The explanatory variable is the one that act as a causative factor for the responses that we have got from the study. Here, in the first paragraph, it is mentioned that the learning is impaired because of shallow processing when laptops are used.

So, shallow processing is the explanatory variable of the study

2. The response variables are the variables that helps us to understand the effect of the explanatory variable. They vary as per the variation of explanatory variable. Here, the response variables are

1) score on factual questions

2) score on conceptual questions

3) number of words written by the students

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