P. Vanmeter et al., COLLEGE-STUDENTS THEORY OF NOTE-TAKING DERIVED FROM THEIR PERCEPTIONSOF NOTE-TAKING, Journal of educational psychology, 86(3), 1994, pp. 323-338
In this ethnographic interview study, college students' theory of note
-taking emerged after 4 phases. The theory was confirmed in a 5th inte
rview phase. The students' theory includes conclusions consistent with
ones already in the note-taking literature, but also many insights in
to note-taking dynamics that have not been identified in previous rese
arch. The amalgamation of previous note-taking theory and empirical ou
tcomes with the students' theory provides a more complete theory of se
lf-regulated note-taking than existed previously.