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Note-Taking Skill Among Bilingual Students in Academia: Literacy, Language and Cognitive Examination.

ABSTRACT: The ability to take notes while listening to a lecture is important and complicated. The main goal of the current study was to examine note-taking skills among students with Hebrew as a first language (L1) and students with Arabic as a first language and Hebrew as a second language (L2). Literacy, language, cognitive, and note-taking skills were assessed among 63 undergraduate students (28 L1). L1 students were found to produce notes of higher quality than L2 students. Moreover, there were significant differences between the groups on measures of vocabulary, word reading fluency, and handwriting speed. The results also revealed that first language was the most important variable in predicting note quality, followed by word reading fluency. Educational implications and directions for further research are discussed in light of the findings.

SUBMITTER: Asaly-Zetawi M

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6527783 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Note-Taking Skill Among Bilingual Students in Academia: Literacy, Language and Cognitive Examination.

Asaly-Zetawi Mona M Lipka Orly O

Frontiers in psychology 20190514

The ability to take notes while listening to a lecture is important and complicated. The main goal of the current study was to examine note-taking skills among students with Hebrew as a first language (L1) and students with Arabic as a first language and Hebrew as a second language (L2). Literacy, language, cognitive, and note-taking skills were assessed among 63 undergraduate students (28 L1). L1 students were found to produce notes of higher quality than L2 students. Moreover, there were signi ...[more]

PMID: 31139105

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Project description:ObjectivesTo investigate the hypothesis that junior doctors' examination skills are deteriorating by assessing the medical admission note examination record.DesignRetrospective study of the admission record.SettingTertiary care hospital.MethodsThe admission records of 266 patients admitted to Wellington hospital between 1975 and 2011 were analysed, according to the total number of physical examination observations (PEOtot), examination of the relevant system pertaining to the presenting complaint (RelSystem) and the number of body systems examined (Nsystems). Subgroup analysis proceeded according to admission year, level of experience of the admitting doctor (registrar, house surgeon (HS) and trainee intern (TI)) and medical versus surgical admission notes. Further analysis investigated the trend over time in documentation with respect to cardiac murmurs, palpable liver, palpable spleen, carotid bruit, heart rate, funduscopy and apex beat location and character.ResultsPEOtot declined by 34% from 1975 to 2011. Surgical admission notes had 21% fewer observations than medical notes. RelSystem occurred in 94% of admissions, with no decline over time. Medical notes documented this more frequently than surgical notes (98% and 86%, respectively). There were no differences between registrars and HS, except for the 2010s subgroup (97% and 65%, respectively). Nsystems declined over the study period. Medical admission notes documented more body systems than surgical notes. There were no differences between registrars, HSs and TIs. Fewer examinations were performed for palpable liver, palpable spleen, cardiac murmur and apex beat location and character over the study period. There was no temporal change in the positive findings of these observations or heart rate rounding.ConclusionsThere has been a decline in the admission record at Wellington hospital between 1975 and 2011, implying a deterioration in local doctors' physical examination skills. Measures to counter this trend are discussed.

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Note-Taking Skill Among Bilingual Students in Academia: Literacy, Language and Cognitive Examination.

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