Effectiveness of Note-Taking Skills and Student's Characteristics on Learning Performance in Online Courses

Note-taking activity was introduced into two types of university courses, a blended learning course and a fully online course, and causal relationships between student’s characteristics such as notetaking behaviour and learning performance were analysed. The objective was to improve learning activities in the online learning environment. Metrics such as personality, information literacy and note-taking skills have been commonly surveyed and analysed in courses such as the above. The differences between causal paths in the two courses were measured using the structural equation modelling technique. The contributions of all metrics to test scores were surveyed and analysed, and the factors which were significant were extracted.