ILCCO/NILRC Learning Innovations Conference -- Embedded Librarians: Catalyst for Student Success

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Embedded Librarians: Catalyst for Student Success

Erika Behling, Library Faculty

College of Lake County

Some Background

• What’s Embedded?• CLC/Personal History• Where We’re At• Where We’re Heading

Why are we doing this?

• Benefits for students

• Benefits for classroom faculty

• Benefits for library faculty

Goals

• Plagiarism Reduction• Citation Familiarity• Source Location• Stumbling Blocks -- Gone

CRJ 122 – Intro to Policing

• Plagiarism Assessment• Research on Own• Research with Instruction• Citations

Results

Academic Honesty Violations by Semester

Results – Pre-Instruction F2F Class

79% failed to locate a suitable source

Results – Post-Instruction F2F Class

Success rate increased by 300%

Results – Pre-Instruction Online Class

94% failed to locate a suitable source

Results – Post-Instruction Online Class

Success rate increased 400%

Hurdles

• Completion Rates• Bridging the Gap• Online Instruction

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Next Steps (in progress)

• Scaffolding• 3-2-1 Bridge• Instruction via Questions• Force the double-check

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