Exam 45: Taking Notes

Victims allow wandering thoughts to sabotage their learning.

In the pursuit of a four-year degree,students spend nearly 400 hours in a formal classroom.

The goal of taking notes is to get down "everything that the instructor says."

In a study by Kenneth Kiewra,it was found that lecture notes taken by first-year students contain,on average,only _____ of the critical ideas presented during a class.