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Leaders: Debra
Gilchrist, Pierce
College, and Anne Zald, University of
Washington.
Course Description: How
can you assess Information Literacy? Should you
assess the process or what students find? Should
there be an IL graduation requirement? Educators
often ponder these questions and others connected
with IL programs. Bring your questions and opinions
to this seminar for lively discussion in a search
for answers.
Three synchronous Webcasts will frame information
literacy programs and student learning assessment
within the context of
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AAHE 9 Principles of Good Practice for Assessing
Student Learning.
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ACRL's Characteristics of Programs of
Information Literacy That Illustrate Best
Practices
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Information Literacy Competency Standards for
Higher Education.
Seminar leaders will provide practical, specific
examples for conducting an assessment of information
literacy programs. We assume participants are
actively involved in information literacy programs
and need to conduct assessments.
While the Information Literacy Competency Standards
for Higher Education and the Characteristics of
Programs of Information Literacy That Illustrate
Best Practices have been introduced in previous
seminars in this series, our focus will be on their
uses in assessing information literacy programs. The
two documents are complimentary and their purposes
are different. The webcasts will make these
distinctions explicit by showing how they are used
in program assessment and outcomes assessment.
Participants will also have access to an
asynchronous discussion forum, resources, and an
archive.
Blog Site Address:
http://tltgroupilassessment.blogspot.com/
Blog entry - summarizing assignment in
preparation for 2nd week, offering options for
submitting or sharing the work.
All of the TLT Group’s online offerings include use
of “low threshold” tools, examination of
controversial issues, options for participants with
a range of experience, and suggestions for
assessment as you integrate what you’ve learned into
your repertoire.
Schedule
Leader Information
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Resources and Links
Library Instruction Outcomes:
Available in Microsoft Word
Nine Principles of Good Practice for Assessing
Student Learning
http://www.fctel.uncc.edu/pedagogy/assessment/9Principles.html
http://www.tcnj.edu/~assess/principles.html
Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best
Practices: A Guideline
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/characteristics.htm
Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.htm
Task Force on Academic Library Outcomes Assessment Report
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/whitepapers/taskforceacademic.htm
Principles of Good Assessment
http://planning.tltgroup.org/ILAFall2006/Principles of Good Assessment.pdf
Examples of external
summative IL assessment tools
From Peggy Burge at UPS
http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/about/infolit/fyillaa/joinfyillaa/
ETS iSkills Assessment (formerly ICT Literacy
Assessment)
http://www.ets.org/portal/site/ets/menuitem.435c0b5cc7bd0ae7015d9510c3921509/?vgnextoid=b8a246f1674f4010VgnVCM10000022f95190RCRD
Bay Area Community College Information Competency
Assessment Project
http://www.topsy.org/ICAP/ICAProject.html
SAILS
https://www.projectsails.org/
LibQUAL
http://www.libqual.org/
TLT Flashlight
http://www.tltgroup.org/flashlightP.htm
Examples of Curriculum Maps developed by libraries:
Ramapo College of New Jersey
http://library.ramapo.edu/CurricMapAndExplanation.pdf
Wartburg College IL Curriculum Map
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:dYG7XNKgi08J:www.wartburg.edu/library/infolit/CurrMap/Curriculum%2520Map,%2520Complete%2520Document%25202005.doc+curriculum+map+higher+education&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1
Higher Ed uses of curriculum maps
http://www.gpc.edu/%7Ectl/resources_academic_assessment.htm
and 2 works by Ruth E. Stiehl
The Outcomes Primer : Reconstructing the College Curriculum (2002).
The Mapping Primer : Tools For Reconstructing The College Curriculum (2005).
From Karl Madden:
Assessing Student Learning and Institutional Effectiveness: Understanding
Middle States Expectations
http://www.msche.org/publications/Assessment_Expectations051222081842.pdf
Developing Research & Communication Skills: Guidelines for Information
Literacy in the Curriculum
http://www.msche.org/publications/devskill050208135642.pdf
Added by Marsha Schnirring, Instructional Services Librarian, Occidental
College:
I have found these most useful in thinking about "laddered" IL outcomes.
See
http://www.oswego.edu/library/instruction/outcomes.pdf |
