The impact of using note taking's techniques on the students' learning

Abstract EN

It is often said that the worst pen is better than the best memory and regardless of how good the students' memory might be, they need to take notes during the lesson or lecture because it is impossible to remember all the details later on.

This is so easy to use technique which requires a brief record of important information can help students not only recall what has been said in the class, but also to achieve their learning goals and provide a useful summary of the material to be revised especially before the test.

Unfortunately, it is noticed that most of the students, especially at the secondary stage, neglect this important skill.

Most of them don’t often write notes unless they are told to do so by the teacher or depend only on the textbooks forgetting that not all the material mentioned during the lesson found in them as some are explanations to the complex and abstract ones and others are related to the teacher's experience in the subject matter.

In fact, note taking skill is part of the learning process and to be useful, students need to learn how to do it effectively and what to record because not all what is said is important.

This requires acquiring more than one skill on the part of the learners and more effort on the part of the teacher to teach them how to do it properly.

For the above reasons, more light will be shed in this research on this topic followed by an experiment and a test to evaluate its effectiveness in learning.-