ABSTRACT
One of the best ways to see whether students understand the flow of information in reading or in class is by having a look at their notes. In Active Literacy Across the Curriculum, Heidi Hayes Jacobs (2006) says this about note taking:
Note taking should be packed with mental action: it involves creative engagement. Interactive note taking provides revealing evidence of authentic student comprehension from both written and aural sources. Interactive note taking replaces the frequent reliance for evaluation of comprehension on simulated reading evidence, such as fill-in-the-blank sheets or predetermined multiple choice examinations. Interactive note taking asks (the student) to extract meaning from written, aural, or visual sources and create (his or her) personal and selective reaction. (Jacobs, 41)
