It’s a SNAP: Student Note-taking Achieves Performance

Abstract

The Student Note-Taking Achieves Performance (SNAP) concept is presented here with its utilization, observations and analysis as an alternative to other methods, such as homework problems, proffered to enhance learning. This educational initiative attempts to address the question of the formative skill for the reading of text and lecture material by a student and the immediate translation then to problem solving. SNAP is a short (15 minute) quiz using only the student's handwritten notes but no text or references. SNAP has been vetted over several semesters in diverse undergraduate Electrical and Computer Engineering courses and assessed by the comparative performance of their respective Course Learning Outcomes.