One Minute Papers and
Blackboard:
An Unbeatable Team for
Formative Assessments
What is a One Minute Paper
(OMP)?
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– Survey
– Discussion
Eli Collins-Brown, EdD
5th Annual SLATE Conference
Chicago……October 2007
Purpose of OMP
• Quick check on how students are doing
• Allows for quick response to students
• Inform mid-semester changes in
instruction or course
Classroom Assessment Technique
Formative Assessment Tool
Paper and Pen
Electronic
Benefits to Students
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Self-assessment
Gives students a voice
Evaluate/analyze what they recall
Gives students a chance to think about
their learning
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Benefits to Instructor
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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
Other Questions
• What was the main point of today’s
lecture?
• What is the muddiest point?
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)
Electronic
• Create a survey in Blackboard
(anonymous)
• Post in Discussion Forum (identified)
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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.
Advantages to Discussion Forum
• Promotes thoughtful responses (others will
read)
• Prompts discussion
• Prompts mutual support
• A stage in creating learning community?
OMP in Fully Online Courses
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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
OMP in Online Web Design Course
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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’
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OMP in Blended Courses
• Same as online
• Makes students’ thinking visible
• Creates segue between online and
classroom sessions
Your ideas, experiences?
Everything you wanted to
know about OMPs and More!!
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/tactic
s/minute.html
• The One-Minute Paper, On Course Workshop,
http://www.oncourseworkshop.com/awareness01
2.htm
• Teaching Idea: The One-Minute Paper, B.
Magnan, Teaching Resource Center of the
University of Virginia,
http://trc.virginia.edu/Publications/Teaching_Con
cerns/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.ht
mld/OctCon2003/OneMinuteNotecard.pdf
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Everything you wanted to
know about OMPs and More!!!
• The One Minute Paper, G. Brum,
http://www.csupomona.edu/~biology/teac
hing_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/maanotes49/8
7.html
Thank You!
Dr. Eli Collins-Brown
Director of Instructional Technology
Methodist College of Nursing
Peoria, IL 61603
309-672-5533
ecollins-brown@mmci.org
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