One Minute Papers and Blackboard: An Unbeatable Team for Formative Assessments

1. One Minute Papers and Blackboard:An Unbeatable Team for Formative Assessments Eli Collins-Brown, EdD 5th Annual SLATE Conference Chicago……October 2007

2. What is a One Minute Paper (OMP)? • Classroom Assessment Technique • Formative Assessment Tool • Paper and Pen • Electronic • Survey • Discussion

3. Purpose of OMP • Quick check on how students are doing • Allows for quick response to students • Inform mid-semester changes in instruction or course

4. Benefits to Students • Self-assessment • Gives students a voice • Evaluate/analyze what they recall • Gives students a chance to think about their learning

5. Benefits to Instructor • Students become more visible • Get an accurate reading on their progress • Can use to immediately alter course • Or provide immediate help/remediation • An opportunity to connect with students, to hear from them. • Student-centered active learning

6. Paper and Pen • Ask two questions: • What is the most important thing you learned during this class? • What important question remains unanswered? • Distribute index cards or half sheets of paper • 5 minutes at end of class • No name (anonymous)

7. Other Questions • What was the main point of today’s lecture? • What is the muddiest point?

8. Electronic • Create a survey in Blackboard (anonymous) • Post in Discussion Forum (identified)

9. Advantages to Survey • Truly Anonymous – no handwriting • Compiles responses – download into Excel • Track completion Used for a 5-day faculty development institute to decide what to do the next day.

10. Advantages to Discussion Forum • Promotes thoughtful responses (others will read) • Prompts discussion • Prompts mutual support • A stage in creating learning community?

11. OMP in Fully Online Courses • Weekly Check-ins (or by-weekly) • Identify students in trouble quickly • Makes students very visible • Provide opportunities to connect with each other and with instructor • Yields valuable information about the course

12. OMP in Online Web Design Course • 6 weeks long • OMPs every two weeks as check-ins • Post in discussion forum • A bit of whining, venting, frustration around 2nd to 3rd week. • Allows me to ‘see’ where they are. • Can turn in back to them “You are exactly where you should be” • Can identify ‘slackers’

13. OMP in Blended Courses • Same as online • Makes students’ thinking visible • Creates segue between online and classroom sessions

14. Your ideas, experiences?

15. Everything you wanted to know about OMPs and More!! • Classroom assessment techniques: a handbook for college teachers. Angelo & Cross, Jossey-Bass, 1993 ISBN: 1555425003 • One Minute Papers, Stephen Draper, http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/resources/tactics/minute.html • The One-Minute Paper, On Course Workshop, http://www.oncourseworkshop.com/awareness012.htm

16. Everything you wanted to know about OMPs and More!! • Teaching Idea: The One-Minute Paper, B. Magnan, Teaching Resource Center of the University of Virginia, http://trc.virginia.edu/Publications/Teaching_Concerns/Spring_1991/TC_Spring_1991_One_Minute_Paper.htm • One Minute Papers, East Tennessee State University, http://www.etsu.edu/writing/materials/1minpaper.htm • One Minute Paper/NoteCard, J. Nutefall, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/services.htmld/OctCon2003/OneMinuteNotecard.pdf

17. Everything you wanted to know about OMPs and More!!! • The One Minute Paper, G. Brum, http://www.csupomona.edu/~biology/teaching_bytes/one-minute-paper.pdf • Suggestion 95. Assign “minute papers” at the end of class, http://teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/suggestions/file95.html • The One-Minute Paper, Bressoud, http://www.maa.org/SAUM/maanotes49/87.html

18. Thank You! Dr. Eli Collins-Brown Director of Instructional Technology Methodist College of Nursing Peoria, IL 61603 309-672-5533 ecollins-brown@mmci.org