In a recent study, researchers found that the use of laptops
to take notes may be “harming academic performance.”
According to the psychologists who conducted the study, college
students who had written their notes in longhand were more successful in
answering conceptual questions about the material than students who had taken
their notes with a laptop.
According to the study’s authors, Pam A. Mueller of
Princeton and Daniel M. Oppenheimer of UCLA, using a laptop to take notes
“results in shallower processing”.
The research was published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association of
Psychological Science.
