“…Notetaking is a method of writing down the essential information in a lecture, a meeting, or a reading text rapidly, briefly, and clearly (McPherson, 2018). For a long time, taking notes has been widely used as an important learning method (Chen, Gong, & Huang, 2015;Nielsen & Webb, 2011). The ability to take notes is one of the most effective ways to increase students' achievement (Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock, 2001) as it is one of the research based strategies for: helping learners retain a greater amount of information (Macdonald, 2014), supporting their learning independence (Brunner, 2013), saving their study time (McPherson, 2018), and helping them remain mentally engaged while learning new and challenging material (Brunner, 2013).…”