How should middle-school students with LD approach online note
taking? A mixed-methods study.Abstract. This explanatory
ex·plan·a·to·ry Serving or intended to explain: an explanatory
paragraph. ex·plan sequential mixed-methods study explored how
the encoding See encode. of text ideas is affected when students
with learning disabilities (LD) take notes from Web-based text.
In the quantitative phase of the study, 15 students took three
kinds of notes--typed, copy and paste To copy files from one
location to another or to copy text and images from one document
to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a
copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an
Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. , and
written--with each kind of notes addressing a different topic.
After taking notes, students performed poorly on two immediate
measures of facts learning. Cued-recall test performances were
best for topics noted by writing, whereas multiple-choice
mul·ti·ple-choice 1. O