Author Archives: Jarlyne Batista

What area of interest/research question do you wish to explore through a research study design? Does a student who types their notes on a computer do better in class than a student who handwrites his/her notes?

What variables or concepts are you looking to observe and/or manipulate? The grades of both students.

What type of design would best suit your research question? (Experimental, Correlational, etc Correlational

What research method would you use to conduct your experiment? (Survey, case study, naturalistic observation, lab experiment, etc.) Survey

If applicable, what would you put as your independent and dependent variables? Laptops vs. handwriting.

Give a hypothesis about what you think you might find. Students who type their notes do better in their grades.

What might be the benefits and implications of this study? In other words, who would gain from it? If a student does better in class while typing or writing, then that should be the method of taking notes.

Please reflect on the process of designing this experiment. What were the challenges you faced? Was this more/less difficult than you expected? How? It wasn’t too difficult. I tried to think of something all students can learn something interesting from. Many students choose to type notes because they feel they get more information down, but i’m not too sure about that.