Many college students prefer to type their lecture notes rather than write them by hand. As a result, the number of experimental and quasi-experimental studies comparing these two note-taking mediums has flourished over the past decade. The present meta-analytic research sought to uncover trends in the existing studies comparing achievement and note-taking outcomes among college students. Results from 24 separate studies across 21 articles revealed that taking and reviewing handwritten notes leads to higher achievement (Hedges’ g = 0.248; p < 0.001), even though typing notes benefits note-taking volume (Hedges’ g = 0.919; p < 0.001), among college students. Furthermore, our binomial effect size display shows that taking handwritten lecture notes is expected to produce higher course grades than typing notes among college students. We conclude that handwritten notes are more useful for studying and committing to memory than typed notes, ultimately contributing to higher achievement for college students.

许多大学生更喜欢打印课堂笔记而不是手写。因此，在过去十年中，比较这两种笔记媒介的实验和准实验研究数量激增。目前的荟萃分析研究试图揭示现有研究中比较大学生成绩和笔记结果的趋势。 21 篇文章中的 24 项独立研究的结果显示，记录和复习手写笔记会带来更高的成就 (Hedges' g = 0.248; p < 0.001)，尽管打字笔记有利于记笔记量 (Hedges' g = 0.919; p < 0.001) ），在大学生中。此外，我们的二项效应大小显示表明，在大学生中，手写课堂笔记预计会比打字笔记产生更高的课程成绩。我们的结论是，手写笔记比打字笔记更有助于学习和记忆，最终有助于提高大学生的成绩。