Strike while the iron is hot! Bringing Information Literacy into Campus Assessment Efforts (some rights reserved Scott Adams) Jeanne Davidson & Anne-Marie Deitering: WILU35: 11 May 2006
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Strike while the iron is hot!
Bringing Information Literacy into Campus Assessment Efforts
(some rights reserved Scott Adams)
Jeanne Davidson & Anne-Marie Deitering: WILU35: 11 May 2006
A few small tasks…
Who’s watching?
How we started
Campus partners
Results & next steps
What we learned
Accreditation is the means
of self-regulation and peer
review adopted by the
educational community.
The accrediting process is
intended to strengthen
and sustain the quality
and integrity of higher
education, making it
worthy of public
confidence and minimizing
the scope of external
control.
-- MSCHE, Characteristics of
Excellence in Higher Education
What do you have to do to show you’re doing a good job?
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Degree Program Proposal Checklist
(Alberta Advanced Education, November 2005)
NWCCU Standard Four: Faculty
Required documentation for Standard 4, Adopted 1992, revised 2001
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Accountability
Asking
the
right
questions
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What should we be asking?
Shifting focus
From To
learningteaching
inputs & outputs
outcomes
new program reviews
iterative, ongoing assessment
Peggy Maki, Assessing for Learning
QUALITY
Looking at user communities from the perspective of the library.
The library in the life of the institution.
Looking at the library from the “customer’s” perspective.
Aligning with campus goals
Defining what you bring to the table
When the pressure to assess is on:
Striking while the iron is hot.
About OSU
19,000 Undergraduate thru Ph.D.
Land grant, publicly funded
7 Colleges
Common baccalaureate core
Library instruction program
ACRL Standards –first try
ACRL/ILCS were difficult to use.
Our program was reactive & inefficient.
Process itself proved useful.
Meanwhile…
Research as a Conversation
eavesdropping
entering
engaging
The information literate student determines the nature and extent of the information needed.
The information literate student accesses needed information effectively and efficiently
The information literate student evaluates information and its sources critically and incorporates selected information into his or her knowledge base and value system.
The information literate student, individually or as a member of a group, uses information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose.
The information literate student understands many of the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information and accesses and uses information ethically and legally.
Successful learners…
Recognize the need for information
Find information efficiently
Learn from information gathered
Use information effectively
Are you using information literacy competencies or standards?
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Shared goals
Shared challenges
Diversity
Expertise
Connections
Campus Conversations
Conversations with faculty
6-9 per group
Designate a note-taker & facilitator
Listen!
Script your questions
Spend your time on key questions
First draftInterpret a citation or reference to a particular book, article or other piece of information and use that reference to find the cited source.
Understand the economic and legal place of information in a capitalist society and can weigh the costs and benefits of retrieving different pieces of information.
Identify the parts of a citation that will lead them to a source of information, regardless of format
Analyze the costs and benefits of retrieving particular information sources, recognizing that there may be economic, social, political or legal restrictions to consider.
Redraft
ResultsLibrarians starting new conversations.
Stronger library-wide commitment to
Librarians’ expertise recognized.
Faculty incorporating IL more broadly.
Faculty extending the conversation.
student success goals.
Next steps
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Mapping outcomes to competencies
Mapping to the curriculum
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Curriculum
survey
“How can I teach this right now?”
Learning Objects
Classroom Assessment Techniques
Faculty workshops
Next next stepscompetency
assignmentsoutcome
lesson plans
tutorials
learning objects
teaching tools
(Tracking use & placement in the curriculum)
assessments
CATs
quizzes
rubrics
What we learned
√ Bring something to the table.
√ Strike while the iron is hot.
√ Food brings people together.
√ Tell others how they can help you.
√ People need to see themselves in what you’re doing.
WILU35: Charting a course for instruction
11 May 2006
Questions?
Thank you!