Information Literacy Assessment:LILO and Laulima by Margot Hanson

Information Literacy Assessment:LILO and Laulima
Lari-Anne Au, Hawaii Community College
Margot Hanson, UH – West Oahu

Information Literacy Assessment
ACRL Standards(Association of College and Research Libraries)
UH LILC history(Libraries Information Literacy Committee)
LILO history(Learning Information Literacy Online)
LILO assessment
Laulima usage
Laulima assessment

ACRL Standards
Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education
Standards, Performance Indicators & Outcomes
Published in 2000
Updated for various fields of study
Information Literacy in the Disciplines
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/is/projectsacrl/infolitdisciplines/index.cfm

Information Literacy Assessment
Difficult to assess
iSkills™ from ETS
Data and statistics

UH Libraries Information Literacy Committee
Formed 2003 to address system-wide campus and library IL goals
Librarians from 10 UH system campuses
Share ideas and resources
Developed online information literacy tutorial: LILO

LearningInformationLiteracyOnline
Self-pacedtutorial
Based on LOBO source code from NCSU
UH LILC updates:
Design
Content
Interactive elements
Feedback options
Assessment

Video
YouTube videos
Education and library videos & tutorials
Create our own content

LILO Assessment
Journal feature prompts students to answer questions based on their research
Rubrics for each prompt show four levels of answer (Excellent, Satisfactory, Partial, Incomplete)
Student examples
Mapped to ACRL standards & outcomes
Instructor/librarian assessment

Let’s take a look!
http://www.hawaii.edu/lilo/0908/eval_web_purpose.php

Laulima usage
New course management system for UH system http://laulima.hawaii.edu
Local implementation of open-source Sakai
Replaced WebCT

Laulima Registration
Students in official classes have classes added to their account automatically
Anyone with an email account can be added to a course and assigned a role
Participants log on with their UH username and password, or their email address and an assigned password

Tests and Quizzes
Create question pools for each module
Designate special access restrictions
Tests can include graded test questions and survey questions which are not graded
Use the grading feature to look at results for individual students and collectively

Laulima Assessment
Information literacy exams:
Hawaii Community College
UH Hilo
Leeward Community College
Windward Community College

Information Literacy at UH Hilo and Hawaii Community College
English 100 students attend at least 2 library sessions during class time
Students take a pretest and final quiz
Students complete modules with quizzes between sessions
Results of final are a portion of students’ English 100 grade

Mahalo!
larianne@hawaii.edu
mdhanson@hawaii.edu