The Framework for Information Literacy and its Impact on Student Learning

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1. Champlain College operates a unique and innovative Liberal Arts program – known as the Core Curriculum. Students study a suite of general education, liberal arts courses alongside their major. Students are cohorted, meaning students from different majors and disciplines come together during class for their liberal arts education. Since its development over 8 years ago, the library and the Core division have collaborated on developing & delivering a scaffolded, embedded, sequential information literacy program. The upshot of this work lives on today, and all undergraduate Champlain College students receive information literacy instruction at least once each semester for the first three years of their studies.
2. As part of of their Core studies, students complete a set of common assignments – these assignments often facilitate & require information literacy. The library is developing a robust, developmental rubric-based assessment model using these authentic assessment artifacts. The library will assess these artifacts for evidence of student learning outcomes in information literacy. The library has begun these efforts by sampling a set of first year annotated bibliographies that students are expected to complete as part of their common assignment. Champlain College Librarians have sampled and assessed annotated bibliographies from two classes of students, and are about to assess artifacts from students from Class of 2018.
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