A “one-minute paper” is a very short, in-class writing activity (taking one-minute or less to complete) in response to an instructor-posed question, which prompts students to reflect on the day’s lesson and provides the instructor with useful feedback.
Goals:
- Assess student learning at the end of a day’s lesson [OM1]
- Make the students more alert and more mentally active during class [OM2]
- Allow students to Improve attention and strengthen comprehension [OM3]
- Easy to personally validate students through one-minute papers. [OM4]
Method:
- Allow students to write three key things learned in today’s lecture.
- Instruct them to write about what they understand in their own words.
- Ask them to write, what was the most confusing point in today’s class?
Benefits:
- Minute papers can provide a “conceptual bridge” between successive class periods
- Minute papers can improve the quality of class discussion by having students write briefly about a concept or issue before they begin discussing it.
- Minute papers are an effective way of involving all students in class simultaneously.
- Minute papers can promote class attendance and attentiveness.
One-Minute Paper has been used in the following Subject:
| S. No. | Name of the Faculty | Subject | Year& Semester | A.Y |
| 1. | Mrs. YSNS. Prathima | Oops through JAVA | II-I | 2018-19 |
| 2. | Dr.Ravi Kumar Chandu | Data Communication and Computer Network | III-I | 2018-19 |
| 3. | Ms. N. Prashanthi | Design Pattern | III-II | 2018-19 |
| 4. | Mrs.K.S.P Keerthi | C++ | II-I | 2019-20 |
| 5. | Ms.D.Renuka | Design Analysis and Algorithm | III-I | 2019-20 |
| 6. | Mr.Md.Gulzar | Software Engineering | III-I | 2020-21 |
| 7. | Dr.K.S.Kannan | Operating System | II-II | 2020-21 |
Specific Outcome to One-Minute Paper as follows:
- It has acted as centered assessment tool as an innovative thinking technique in active learning processes. [O-OM1]
- It is depicted that feedback and perception employed for the learning activity helped in judgments easily. [O-OM1]
- For quick feedback, it has provided real-time feedback from class and enables the teacher to find out if students have recognized the main points in a class session or not. [O-OM1]
- Minute papers helped in to promote class attendance and attentiveness. [O-OM4]
Impact:
- A kind of immediate feedback for the instructor and acts as guide to improve lecturer effectiveness.
- Instructor can have a assessment of level of understanding of the topic
- Students have an immediate opportunity to raise awareness of issues they have fully not understood.
