Title: A Study on Note Taking Skill of Indigenous Students
Authors: Myla L. Isip, Jayfee D. Alcantara, Marissa P. Gegante
Volume: 9
Issue: 5
Pages: 393-401
Publication Date: 2025/05/28
Abstract:
With the aim of helping the Aeta students in developing learning strategies that will aid them in their pursuit of a college degree, this study had endeavoured to describe their skill in note taking from a printed informational text. The researchers conducted a qualitative study aiming to provide assistance tailored to the participants in a way suited to their learning style. By applying content analysis procedures, the participants' quantity and quality of idea units in their note taking outputs were described and the challenges that they encountered in note taking were unravelled. Researchers gathered all Aeta participants in one campus of a state university. Details of the findings revealed that the participants' exhibited "inadequate" and less "significant" ideas in their responses. Moreover, the outputs indicated the participants' inability to use effective note taking skills such as, organizing ideas that will serve a function and retrieving information to help them in a class discussion. With note taking skill as a valuable learning strategy inherent in learning across disciplines in the tertiary level, the findings suggest the need to assist the students in this academic task. Further research is also encouraged on the possible contributing factors in the participants' unsatisfactory performance in the task. A program intended to address the assistance needed by this group of students was proposed. Using the findings of this study as the initial basis, the researchers intend to start a program envisioned to be included as part of a university- wide program that is collaborative, multi-disciplinary-oriented and research-data driven aimed to holistically address the needs of the students for a better learning path.