Don’t Ditch the Laptop Just Yet: A Direct Replication of Mueller and Oppenheimer’s (2014) Study 1 Plus Mini Meta-Analyses Across Similar Studies

In this direct replication of Mueller and Oppenheimer’s (2014) Study 1, participants watched a lecture while taking notes with a laptop (n = 74) or longhand (n = 68). After a brief distraction and without the opportunity to study, they took a quiz. As in the original study, laptop participants took...

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Published in:Psychological science Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 326 - 339
Main Authors: Urry, Heather L., Crittle, Chelsea S., Floerke, Victoria A., Leonard, Michael Z., Perry, Clinton S., Akdilek, Naz, Albert, Erica R., Block, Avram J., Bollinger, Caroline Ackerley, Bowers, Emily M., Brody, Renee S., Burk, Kelly C., Burnstein, Ally, Chan, Allissa K., Chan, Petrina C., Chang, Lena J., Chen, Emily, Chiarawongse, Chakrapand Paul, Chin, Gregory, Chin, Kathy, Cooper, Ben G., Corneilson, Katherine Adele, Danielson, Amanda M., Davis, Elizabeth S., Devis, Ycar, Dong, Melissa, Dossett, Elizabeth K., Dulchin, Nick, Duong, Vincent N., Ewing, Ben, Fuller, Julia Mansfield, Gartman, Thomas E., Goldberg, Chad R., Greenfield, Jesse, Groh, Selena, Hamilton, Ross A., Hodge, Will, Van Hong, Dylan, Insler, Joshua E., Jahan, Aava B., Jimbo, Jessica Paola, Kahn, Emma M., Knight, Daniel, Konstantin, Grace E., Kornick, Caitlin, Kramer, Zachary J., Lauzé, Meghan S., Linnehan, Misha S., Lombardi, Tommaso, Long, Hayley, Lotstein, Alec J., Lyncee, Myrna-Nahisha A., Lyons, Monica Gabriella, Maayan, Eli, May, Nicole Marie, McCall, Elizabeth C., Montgomery-Walsh, Rhea Ann Charlotte, Morscher, Michael C., Moser, Amelia D., Mueller, Alexandra S., Mujica, Christin A., Na, Elim, Newman, Isabelle R., O’Brien, Meghan K., Ochoa Castillo, Katherine Alexandra, Onipede, Zaenab Ayotola, Pace, Danielle A., Park, Jasper H., Perdikari, Angeliki, Perloff, Catherine E., Perry, Rachel C., Pillai, Akash A., Rajpal, Avni, Ranalli, Emma, Schreier, Jillian E., Shangguan, Justin R., Silver, Micaela Jen, Spratt, Avery Glennon, Stein, Rachel E., Steinhauer, Grant J., Valera, Devon K., Vervoordt, Samantha M., Walton, Lena, Weinflash, Noah W., Weinstock, Karen, Yuan, Jiaqi, Zarrella, Dominique T., Zarrow, Jonah E.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01-03-2021
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Summary:In this direct replication of Mueller and Oppenheimer’s (2014) Study 1, participants watched a lecture while taking notes with a laptop (n = 74) or longhand (n = 68). After a brief distraction and without the opportunity to study, they took a quiz. As in the original study, laptop participants took notes containing more words spoken verbatim by the lecturer and more words overall than did longhand participants. However, laptop participants did not perform better than longhand participants on the quiz. Exploratory meta-analyses of eight similar studies echoed this pattern. In addition, in both the original study and our replication, higher word count was associated with better quiz performance, and higher verbatim overlap was associated with worse quiz performance, but the latter finding was not robust in our replication. Overall, results do not support the idea that longhand note taking improves immediate learning via better encoding of information.
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ISSN:0956-7976
1467-9280
DOI:10.1177/0956797620965541