Presenter: Ashley Dees Presented at the virtual Georgia Libraries Conference in October 2020. In Spring 2020, an assessment project was developed to assess the impact of library instruction to five Speech 102 classes. The assessment was administered in two parts using the immediate and follow-up surveys provided in the project OUTCOME platform. The immediate survey was administered via a print survey directly after the in-person instruction sessions. Due to the pandemic, the follow-up survey was administered six weeks after the instruction sessions via an online survey. This session will discuss using project OUTCOME, the findings of the assessment, and what librarians can learn from assessment projects during a semester of upheaval.

1. using ACRL's project OUTOCME to assess instruction and
plan for the future

2. • This project was a piece of the UM Libraries
overall long term assessment plan.
• It was to be administered in two parts with an
immediate print survey after in-person
library instruction and a follow-up print
survey six weeks after instruction.
• Due to the pandemic, the follow-up survey
was instead administered to two of the six
speech classes via an online survey.
• The remaining four classes were unable to
participate in the second part of the survey as
the professor contracted covid-19.

3. https://acrl.projectoutcome.org

4. Immediate
Instruction Survey
Follow-up
Instuction Survey

5. Students will demonstrate
increased knowledge,
confidence, application,
and awareness of library
resources.
-A Two Part Survey-
Immediate Post Survey (part1):
Criterion of Excellence: At least 75% of responses will answer “agree” or “strongly
agree” to survey questions 1-4.
Follow-up Post Survey (part 2):
Criterion of Excellence: At least 50% of responses will answer “Yes” to survey
questions 1-3.

6. A total of 84 survey responses were collected. Of the patrons surveyed, the following percentages either
agreed or strongly agreed that they benefited from the program or service:
learned
something new
to help succeed
in classes
96%
felt more
confident about
completing
assignment(s)
95%
intend to
apply what
they
learned
96%
were more aware
of resources and
services provided
95%
Criterion of
Excellence: At
least 75%

7. What did you
like most about
this session?

8. A total of 27 survey responses were collected. Patrons surveyed reported that, as a result of participating in
the program or service:
felt they did
better in
their
class(es)
85%
used
additional
library
resources
38%
used what
they learned
to do better in
their class(es)
85%
Criterion of
Excellence: At
least 50%

9. What did you
find most
helpful from
this session?

10. • Assessment is meant to find things that can be improved upon
• You don't have to reinvent the wheel to create and implement a good
assessment plan
• Focus on the things you can do or improve, NOT the things you can't
(some things are simply out of our control)
• Things don't always go as planned (and that's ok!)

11. Concentrate on the
Positive!
your
doing amazing love!
Do this
for more classes because I think everyone
should hear about this and how easy
it is to use.
More
informational classes like this! This was very
helpful. Thank you!
Have
session for every class.
Do more
of this
Keep one
search easy to use!
Nothing
already doing pletny!
Do this
for more classes
Have
more of these
seccions
Offer
optional classes like this
session
Already
really helpful
The
library would offer this to other classes
so that more students are aware of
this helpful database.
Nothing
y'all are doing a great job
What else could the library do to help you succeed in your classes?