TY - JOUR ID - 1520 TI - Students' Attitude towards Note-taking and Reading Pamphlets/handouts in Courses JO - Future of Medical Education Journal JA - FMEJ LA - en SN - 2251-8347 AU - Sanagoo, Akram AU - Jouybari, Leila M AU - Ghana, Samieh AU - Sadeghi AlhaAbadi, Javad AU - Rahimi, Masood AU - Sedghi, Sadegh AU - Sharifnia, Seyyed Hamid AD - 1Nursing Research Center, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, IRAN AD - Education Development Center, Golestan University Of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, IRAN AD - Student Research Committee, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Iran AD - Student Research Committee, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, IRAN AD - Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery of Amol, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran Y1 - 2013 PY - 2013 VL - 3 IS - 3 SP - 3 EP - 6 KW - Attitude KW - university Students KW - Note-taking DO - 10.22038/fmej.2013.1520 N2 - Background: the inappropriate use of handouts and notes is a common academic problem among students. Students' notes are too brief and incomplete in compare with references; hence they may not cover the required content for the courses. The aim of this paper is to analyze students' attitude toward reading handouts and notes instead of references. Methods: In this analytical and descriptive study a representative sample of 201participants, including medical, paramedical, nursing and midwifery students of Golestan University of Medical Sciences, has been drawn. The data derived from this research has been collected by a valid and reliable questionnaire. There have been 39 questions in the questionnaire ranging from 1 to 5, based on Likert scale; five represents that students are proponent of reading notes. The sum of scores was 20; the 16th version of SPSS, T-test, one-way and two-way variance analysis at significance level pFindings: 66.7% of participants were female. ANOVA test showed that there were significant differences among the mean of attitudes of medical students (18.15±1.37), nursing (17.15±1.46), and paramedical (17.67±1.35) (P=0.008).  The overall results revealed that the huge amount of content of references is the main factor for students' tendency to use notes instead of references. Conclusion: the final result was that students have got positive attitude to note-taking during courses and use their notes as their direct reference material, while the class notes are not reasonably efficient, particularly when used as the main learning strategy. UR - https://fmej.mums.ac.ir/article_1520.html L1 - https://fmej.mums.ac.ir/article_1520_07322d79a917fd160837082dac2a98e3.pdf ER -