In Spring 2018, I (Heather Urry) used the materials provided here as a first study in an undergraduate research methods course. The study is a direct replication of an experiment reported by Mueller and Oppenheimer (2014). The original research demonstrated that taking notes with a laptop led to lower performance on a quiz focused on video lecture content compared to taking notes with a computer. The goal of this assignment was two-fold: 1. To introduce students to important content about research methods relayed in an entertaining (perhaps mildly inappropriate) video format ([John Oliver's bit on Science][1]). 2. To provide a context for collecting data that students would subsequently analyze and write up in an empirical report. Given the relevance of the study to students' own everyday reality, the hope was that the topic would be naturally interesting. I programmed the study in Qualtrics, and had teaching assistant instructors run the study in each of four lab sections. Two sections were assigned to the computer version of the task and the other two sections were assigned to the laptop version of the task. Materials here include some text from my lesson plan for the TA instructors, two PowerPoint files used by the instructors to run the study, a pdf showing the Qualtrics survey, and a Word doc showing the correct answers for the quiz as currently programmed. (If you use Qualtrics, I have also included the original qsf files, which you can import into your own Qualtrics account and modify to suit your preferences.) All of these materials are free for you to use and modify to suit your preferences. **Importantly, the quiz was too easy as written! If you use these materials, I urge you to modify the quiz to achieve a desirable level of difficulty.** If you have questions about the materials provided here, please feel free to email heather.urry@tufts.edu. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw