The Effect of Using Digital Note-taking Strategies on the Learning Achievement and Cognitive Load While Watching Video Materials.

• Main Authors: Cheng, Hsu-Cheng, 鄭旭成
• Other Authors: Chen, Chao-Hsiu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40641328016253105267

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 教育研究所 === 101 === 　　Based on the cognitive load theory, this study investigates effects of learners’ use of note-taking strategies while watching video materials on their learning achievement and cognitive load at different learning stages. Sixty college students were randomly assigned into three groups. The participants in the control group would not take notes while watching the video materials. There were two experimental groups, one group of students took notes freely at anytime where as the other group of students took notes with the assistance of a skeletal outline. The participants of the two experimental groups took notes with a video learning system. The participants’ learning achievement and cognitive load levels at different stages (i.e. learning, note-taking, reviewing, and test-taking) were measured to find out whether three groups of participants showed significant differences in learning achievement and cognitive load. 　　The results show that the skeletal-outline group has significant higher achievement than the control group has but no significant difference found between the two experimental groups. Additionally, there were no significant cognitive-load differences among the three groups but the participants reported different cognitive-load levels at different stages. The post-hoc tests indicated that participants had the highest cognitive-load level at the test-taking stage and had the lowest one at the reviewing stage. 　　The author suggests that educators take learners’ limited cognitive capacity into account and provide learners with appropriate note-taking outline when they learn video-based materials in digital learning environments. Thus, learners can process information well and improve their learning efficiently and effectively.