(1286) ‘DO YOU HAVE A MINUTE?’ THE IMPACT OF THE ONE-MINUTE PAPER ON ENGLISH, MARKETING AND ACCOUNTANCY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

摘要

The transformative period that European academia is going through requires new and innovative teaching methods that engage the learner and improve their learning techniques. Despite the fact that prior research shows its potential benefits and limited costs, the one-minute paper (OMP) has not widely been used in the economics lecture (Whittard, 2015). This classroom assessment tool, which is usually applied and the end of a lecture or an activity, involves students’ answering a few questions based on their learning and the class content. This paper aims to study and compare the impact of the OMP on the undergraduate students’ performance attending three courses from different disciplines at the same university- Business English (first year in the Degree of Business Administration and Management); Marketing II (second year of the l Degree in Business Management); and Accounting Systems Management and Special Accounting (third year of the Degree in Financial and Economic Management). Each of these subjects are taught by a different lecturer. In order to analyse the use of this resource, the following steps were carried out- first, the final grade obtained by the students was selected as a dependent variable -thus indicating their short-term academic performance-; secondly, a comparison has been made between the performance of students who completed the OMPs during the lectures and those who did not, in order to find out whether the use of the OMP has had any significant improvement in the students attending these different courses; and finally attendance rate, success rate and performance rate were also analyzed to link the results with the use of this classroom assessment technique. Furthermore, the effect of the OMP on each different course will be studied so that some conclusions can be drawn.