This document discusses assessment in information literacy instruction from the classroom to the curriculum level. It defines assessment as determining what you want to know and how to find it out by collecting relevant data. The document outlines how to assess at the instructional level through formative and summative techniques. It also discusses assessing student learning outcomes, using classroom assessment techniques, and tying instruction to program and institutional goals. Overall, the document provides guidance on assessing information literacy at different levels to improve teaching and align with broader curricular objectives.
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This document provides an introduction to research methods. It discusses different types of research including experimental, qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic, correlational, survey, action, and evaluation research. It also discusses systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and research synthesis. The goal of the class is for students to conduct a literature review and meta-analysis on a topic that is both personally meaningful and has implications for their career and life. Students will synthesize their research findings into an easy to understand graphic.
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This document provides information about an assessment workshop being held at Towson University. The workshop will cover using rubrics for information literacy assessment. Participants will learn about rubric design, norming rubrics by practicing scoring sample student work, and evaluating rubrics. The workshop aims to help librarians at Towson University develop rubrics to assess student learning and use assessment data to improve instruction practices. Sample rubrics from the RAILS project will be used during the norming exercise to help participants learn how to reliably score student work using rubrics.
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This document summarizes an information literacy session conducted by the author for first year undergraduate students. The session focused on teaching referencing skills using PowerPoint slides, group exercises, and demonstrations of reference management software. The author notes that future sessions could better align with Bloom's taxonomy by focusing more on synthesis and evaluation, providing follow-up assessments, and gathering feedback to improve. The author recommends seeking additional feedback channels, offering more drop-in sessions, and developing more online reference tools.
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The document discusses how well the Common Core State Standards align with expectations for college readiness based on interviews with community college instructors. It finds that there is good alignment between the standards and what is expected of students in areas like reading, research, and writing at the college level. However, it also notes that many high school graduates in California are not meeting the college readiness benchmarks in these areas as defined by standardized tests. The implications are that more needs to be done to help students develop the skills outlined in the Common Core in order to ensure they are prepared for postsecondary education.
This document provides an introduction to research methods. It discusses different types of research including experimental, qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic, correlational, survey, action, and evaluation research. It also discusses systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and research synthesis. The goal of the class is for students to conduct a literature review and meta-analysis on a topic that is both personally meaningful and has implications for their career and life. Students will synthesize their research findings into an easy to understand graphic.
Data collection in qualitative research focus groups october 2015Tünde Varga-Atkins
Focus groups are a qualitative research method useful for exploring shared experiences in a group setting. They involve 4-12 participants discussing a topic while being facilitated and recorded. Focus groups allow ideas to develop through group interaction and provide an environment to explore attitudes, feelings, and perceptions on a topic. The facilitator must structure the questions, manage dynamics, and probe for both a range and depth of perspectives from participants.
This document provides information about an assessment workshop being held at Towson University. The workshop will cover using rubrics for information literacy assessment. Participants will learn about rubric design, norming rubrics by practicing scoring sample student work, and evaluating rubrics. The workshop aims to help librarians at Towson University develop rubrics to assess student learning and use assessment data to improve instruction practices. Sample rubrics from the RAILS project will be used during the norming exercise to help participants learn how to reliably score student work using rubrics.
This document summarizes an event on learning analytics and higher education ethics. It included discussions from the perspectives of different stakeholders, including students. Key ethical issues discussed were privacy, transparency, power dynamics, ownership, and responsibilities regarding how student data is collected and used. Participants explored these issues and worked towards developing a draft code of conduct. Ensuring consent, transparency, data protection, and avoiding bias were identified as important principles to consider.
This document summarizes an information literacy session conducted by the author for first year undergraduate students. The session focused on teaching referencing skills using PowerPoint slides, group exercises, and demonstrations of reference management software. The author notes that future sessions could better align with Bloom's taxonomy by focusing more on synthesis and evaluation, providing follow-up assessments, and gathering feedback to improve. The author recommends seeking additional feedback channels, offering more drop-in sessions, and developing more online reference tools.
This document outlines a proposed 6-week math unit for a 3rd grade class. The central idea is that numbers are used to describe, compare, and measure quantities. Key concepts are function, connection, and change. Lines of inquiry include place value systems, fractions and decimals as representations of whole-part relationships, and number operations. Assessment tasks will evaluate student understanding of place value, addition/subtraction, fractions/decimals, and long division. Learning experiences include exploring counting strategies, discussing differences between strategies, representing number relationships, and creating mind maps. The unit aims to develop self-management skills and principled, balanced attributes through math inquiries.
This document provides an overview of research design and methodology. It discusses the typical phases of conducting research, including identifying a problem, reviewing literature, designing a study, collecting and analyzing data, and reporting findings. Both quantitative and qualitative research approaches are described. Key differences are that quantitative research tests objective theories through variables, seeks to generalize findings, and uses measurable data collection, while qualitative research develops theories, captures complex realities, and relies on interpretive analysis of text/image data. The document also reviews research purposes, approaches, elements, and paradigms to provide context around research methodology.
Geoff Walton conducted research to examine how psychological states associated with information behavior help explain learning during an information literacy intervention. Students who received online social network learning demonstrated a greater ability to evaluate information compared to other groups. Walton's research suggests that information literacy models are too rigid and do not account for cognitive, affective, and social aspects of becoming information literate. He proposes a new three-sphere model of information literacy and a five-level tool for assessing information discernment.
This document provides an overview of research design and methodology. It discusses the typical phases of conducting research, including identifying a problem, reviewing literature, specifying a purpose and research questions, designing a study, collecting and analyzing data, and reporting results. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods are examined, highlighting their different goals, processes, data collection techniques, and types of data analysis. Common research paradigms and approaches are also introduced. The document concludes with an activity where students will discuss a news article to practice summarizing research and identifying key aspects of methodology.
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1. Defining the task and information needs.
2. Locating potential information sources.
3. Selecting the most appropriate resources.
4. Organizing the collected information.
5. Presenting ideas and information.
6. Assessing the final product.
It emphasizes that information literacy is an ongoing process that involves clarifying questions, developing search strategies, evaluating sources, and reflecting on one's research skills.
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This document provides an overview of research design and methodology. It discusses the typical phases of conducting research, including identifying a problem, reviewing literature, designing a study, collecting and analyzing data, and reporting findings. Both quantitative and qualitative research approaches are described. Key differences are that quantitative research tests objective theories through variables, seeks to generalize findings, and uses measurable data collection, while qualitative research develops theories, captures complex realities, and relies on interpretive analysis of text/image data. The document also reviews research purposes, approaches, elements, and paradigms to provide context around research methodology.
Geoff Walton conducted research to examine how psychological states associated with information behavior help explain learning during an information literacy intervention. Students who received online social network learning demonstrated a greater ability to evaluate information compared to other groups. Walton's research suggests that information literacy models are too rigid and do not account for cognitive, affective, and social aspects of becoming information literate. He proposes a new three-sphere model of information literacy and a five-level tool for assessing information discernment.
This document provides an overview of research design and methodology. It discusses the typical phases of conducting research, including identifying a problem, reviewing literature, specifying a purpose and research questions, designing a study, collecting and analyzing data, and reporting results. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods are examined, highlighting their different goals, processes, data collection techniques, and types of data analysis. Common research paradigms and approaches are also introduced. The document concludes with an activity where students will discuss a news article to practice summarizing research and identifying key aspects of methodology.
This document outlines a library instruction session on using the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. It begins with a pre-test to assess participants' familiarity with threshold concepts and information literacy. It then discusses the key aspects of threshold concepts and how to design one-shot instruction sessions using the frames. Examples are provided for how to develop essential questions, learning outcomes, and activities for each frame. The document concludes with post-test questions and sources for further information.
This document discusses metacognition and strategies for facilitating metacognition in online class discussions. Metacognition refers to thinking about one's own thinking. The benefits of metacognitive strategies include increased material comprehension, better alignment with assignments, improved discussions, and stronger arguments. The document provides examples of metacognitive strategies that can be used at different stages of online discussions, such as predicting outcomes, self-questioning, and reflecting on learning. It also addresses barriers to implementing these strategies and how to determine if overcoming those barriers is worthwhile.
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This document discusses assessment at various levels - instructional, program, and institutional. It defines assessment as determining what you want to know and how to measure it, not as evaluation. The document provides examples of formative and summative instructional assessments including classroom assessment techniques. It also discusses tying instruction to learning outcomes and assessing at the program level by examining outcomes. Finally, it discusses institutional level assessment through tools like rubric assessment of undergraduate learning outcomes.
The document discusses rubrics for evaluating student research papers. It provides a sample rubric that evaluates students on four dimensions of research: determining information needs, accessing information effectively, evaluating information sources critically, and using information effectively. For each dimension, the rubric describes criteria for beginning, proficient, and advanced performance levels, scored on a scale of 0-20 points. The document emphasizes that rubrics help set clear expectations for students and allow for consistent evaluation of research skills.
The document discusses planning and evaluation for teaching and learning in higher education. It covers key topics like constructive alignment, assessment and feedback, and evaluation of teaching. The learning outcomes are to identify successful planning themes, consider different assessment modes, and discuss using real student feedback. Constructive alignment and writing learning outcomes are explained. Different types of assessment and feedback are also defined, including the importance of feedback in learning. Principles of good feedback practice and evaluating teaching quality are presented.
The document discusses using the BIG6 model to help students develop critical thinking skills related to information literacy. The BIG6 model involves 6 stages: 1) task definition, 2) information seeking strategies, 3) location and access, 4) use of information, 5) synthesis, and 6) evaluation. For each stage, the document provides guidance on activities and questions to help students develop skills such as determining information needs, finding and evaluating appropriate sources, extracting and organizing relevant information, and assessing both the problem-solving process and final product or learning outcomes. The overall goal is to prepare students for lifelong learning and contribution to various communities.
This document discusses adapting VALUE rubrics for assessing information literacy skills at individual campuses. It describes a project that developed analytic rubrics for information literacy, analyzed rubric scores for reliability and validity, and created training materials. The project aimed to determine how rubric assessment can improve instruction and services, whether librarians and faculty can reliably score students using rubrics, and what skills are needed for reliable scoring. The document discusses challenges in rubric assessment and provides examples of campus collaborations to adapt rubrics for local use.
Discusses the importance of teaching information literacy skills through hands-on learning, and offers alternatives to assigning research papers to add variety for both students and teachers.
Approaches to learning (ATL) are trans-disciplinary skills that are developed in students from primary years through the diploma program. ATL skills enable students to become stronger, self-regulated learners and lifelong learners. These skills include communication, social/collaboration, self-management, research, thinking, and transferring skills across disciplines. Developing ATL skills helps students take responsibility for their own learning by increasing their awareness of how they learn best and improving their use of learning strategies.
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The document discusses reasons why students plagiarize and strategies to address plagiarism. It explores how students are focused on success and achievement, insecure in their writing abilities, and lacking skills in using information ethically. Responses that appeal to morality through honor codes or follow legalistic rules are less effective than teaching academic integrity as a set of learnable skills. The document outlines skills students need and provides strategies like assigning projects difficult to plagiarize, checking student work in progress, teaching digital note taking, and using Turnitin.com judiciously.
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The document outlines the six steps of the information literacy process:
1. Defining the task and information needs.
2. Locating potential information sources.
3. Selecting the most appropriate resources.
4. Organizing the collected information.
5. Presenting ideas and information.
6. Assessing the final product.
It emphasizes that information literacy is an ongoing process that involves clarifying questions, developing search strategies, evaluating sources, and reflecting on one's research skills.
Qualitative analysis is a type of analysis that uses subjective judgement based on unquantifiable information rather than statistical methods. It can be used to study viewpoints, actions, and characteristics that cannot be represented numerically. Some common approaches to qualitative analysis include reflection, verbal reports/protocols, and diary studies. Techniques for monitoring student progress qualitatively include video/audio recordings assessed against criteria, checklists, and anecdotal comments. Types of qualitative analysis discussed in the document are conversation analysis, discourse analysis, text language analysis, and task characteristic analysis. Feedback methods include questionnaires and interviews.
This document discusses key concepts related to assessment, evaluation, measurement, and their purposes. It defines data, information, and knowledge, explaining how they relate. It then discusses how assessment applies to learners to determine their acquired skills and knowledge, while evaluation typically applies to programs to determine their merit. Measurement determines the attributes of what is being studied. The document provides examples of assessing learning versus assessing for learning. It emphasizes the importance of setting learning goals and using assessment to promote learning.
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2) Best practices for assessment including aligning tasks with learning goals, allowing students to demonstrate understanding in different ways, and using assessments to guide instruction.
3) Steps to create assessment tasks including identifying standards and practices, developing learning performances, and reviewing tasks for clarity, difficulty level, and fairness.
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2. WHAT IS ASSESSMENT, EXACTLY?
Figuring out what you want to know
Figuring out how you can know it
Collecting data to that end
3. WHAT IS ASSESSMENT NOT?
Vindication: an attempt to prove or justify something
Evaluation: an immediate measure of your worth, value, or
effectiveness
Automatically going to tell you that you suck.
4. WHAT IS DATA?
Pieces of information that are captured or recorded.
Not just numbers. Qualitative data counts too.
You might already have a lot more sources of data than you
realize.
6. INSTRUCTIONAL ASSESSMENT:
WHAT DO WE WANT TO KNOW?
Is my teaching effective?
Are students learning?
WHAT are students learning?
From another perspective:
Is students’ approach to research changing? How?
Could the way I teach reinforce negative student habits? Could it have a
positive affect on changing those?
Really specific:
Can students articulate the differences between a popular and scholarly
article?
Does taking students on a building tour increase the likelihood of a favorable
attitude toward the library?
7. TWO TYPES OF INSTRUCTIONAL
ASSESSMENT
Formative helps along the way
Asking: what do you still have questions about?
In-class clicker questions
Summative is assessing after the fact; cumulative.
Paper, project, or bibliography
Final exam
8. LEARNING OUTCOMES
Outcomes are specific and measurable
Outcomes are guides for a sessions’s structure, content, and
teaching methods (pedagogy)
Outcomes can be talking points for faculty – especially when
expectations for a session are unrealistic.
9. WHAT’S THE IDEAL?
In an ideal world, what would you like these students to be able to
do?
What steps would they need to take in order to be able to do
those things?
Can you address any of these steps through your instruction?
How many or how few?
How do you know if the students can do them?
(hint: that last part is assessment!)
10. CATS – CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT
TECHNIQUES
One minute free write Show two sources, use Poll
“Muddiest Point” Everywhere or clickers to
vote on more appropriate
Class discussion
source
Worksheets
Compare Google vs. Google
Think-pair-share or group Scholar search results
review
Hoax website experience
Concept maps
Create rubric as a class or
Groups evaluate source and group
present to class Google form
11.
12.
13. USING COURSE ASSESSMENTS
Final papers or projects
Feedback from students
Pre and post session quiz or questionnaire
14. REMEMBER:
If you assess the outcome and it’s not met – this is OK
This could mean:
It’s not achievable in the time you are allotted
There are too many other things going on in class which crowd out focusing
on achieving the outcome
It’s not achievable by the current methods being used in class
Or… several other things.
15. INTERACTIVE TIME
Brainstorm and write down some new ways that you could use
CATs in your own class. You can do this on your own or feel free
to talk to those around you.
16. PROGRAM LEVEL ASSESSMENT
What do you want to know regarding the work that you do with
your library unit or campus department?
How is my liaison work going? What effect is it having?
Is my instruction lining up with course, program, or other outcomes? Do these
outcomes even exist?
17. WHERE CAN YOU FIND
OUTCOMES?
Accreditation standards for your discipline
Program outcomes (ex. First Year Writing)
Departmental/Unit mission statements and Gs and Os
MSU Undergraduate Learning Outcomes
20. INSTITUTIONAL LEVEL
ASSESSMENT
What questions exist at the institutional level?
How do the Libraries affect student learning at MSU?
At what point in their education are MSU students learning information literacy
skills?
What value do the Libraries – our services and collections – have for the
University as a whole?
22. Analytical Thinking – The MSU graduates uses ways of knowing from mathematics, natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and arts to
access information and critically analyzes complex material in order to evaluate evidence, construct reasoned arguments, and communicate
inferences and conclusions.
Emerging Developing Proficient Exemplary
Acquires, analyzes, Seeks information from basic Retrieves information from a Designs and implements Uses analysis to defend
and evaluates types of sources with minimal limited range of sources and effective strategies to find information choices and reach
information from regard for relevance or identifies biases, strengths, relevant sources based on original conclusions.
multiple sources quality. and weaknesses within those purpose. Critiques biases,
sources. strengths, and weaknesses of
information sources.
Synthesizes and Recognizes multiple Identifies how information can Examines and integrates Creates a defensible,
applies information perspectives among sources be conceptualized differently relevant information sources compelling work using
within and across of information. within various disciplines. from multiple disciplinary multiple disciplinary
disciplines perspectives. perspectives.
Identifies and Recognizes the need for and Identifies a range of Selects quantitative methods Critiques biases, strengths, and
applies, as performs basic quantitative quantitative methods and for making sound judgments weaknesses of quantitative
appropriate, methods. employs them to make and drawing plausible approaches to reflect on
quantitative judgments. conclusions based on the conclusions and propose
situation. responses to a situation.
methods for
defining and
responding to
problems
Identifies the Recognizes a range of inquiry Describes the effective use of Judges if methods are credible Selects inquiry methods
credibility, use and methods and acknowledges methods and identifies their and ethical in given contexts. ethically and with an
misuse of scientific, that they can be misused. misuse in a given contexts. understanding of the
humanistic and consequences of their misuse.
artistic methods
23. TO SUM UP
What do you want to know about your instruction, or other liaison
efforts?
How can you tie your work in to your discipline’s goals or
outcomes?
Are there larger forces at work that can guide what you’re doing?
How can you find out?
24. HELPFUL SOURCES
MSU Undergraduate Learning Outcomes (formerly Liberal Learning Goals)
http://undergrad.msu.edu/learning
Oakleaf, M. (2010). The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive
Research Review and Report, American Library Association.
http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/issues/value/val_report.
pdf
Angelo, T. A., & Cross, K. P. (1993). Classroom assessment techniques: A
handbook for college teachers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
LB2822.75 .A54 1993 c.2
Editor's Notes
In it’s basest form, It’s gathering and recording information.
Assessment should be objective.If you’re going to make evaluative decisions, you need to have done an assessment to provide you with data to base them on.Data need to be interpreted in order to understand what they mean.Doesn’t always have to highlight effectiveness or ineffectiveness. Assessment CAN be the first step in determining these things. Data can be used in all sorts of ways, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be collected. Blissful ignorance is tempting sometimes, but dangerous as it never leads to innovation or improvement!
Do you get the “anecdotal” slam? Write it down as it happens and it’s not anecdotal anymore.
Teaching/learning – for classes and student interactionProgram – can use to look at certain areas such as liaison, reference, etc.Write things on your worksheet
Ask people what they want to know about their classes.The hardest part of assessment is figuring out what you really want to know. These are ALL things that can be assessed. Some are harder than others, but they can be done. Assessment takes work, so make sure that it’s what you REALLY want to know. If it is, it should be worth assessing.
Formative mostly involves your teachingSummative involves learning
These are how we determine exactly what it is that we want to measure. It also determines how we teach.Specific: not “understand the library” or “know about databases.” How will you measure those things? They help you keep on track, design, focus, and pare out any uneccessary contentTech – it’s a cool toy, but will it help me meet my learning outcomes? How might I use it in a way that addresses the outcomes?
You can collect worksheets!These are mostly formativeDifferent methods you can use to collect data, depending on what you want to know. There’s more than just assessment going on here – it’s part of the whole design of class. If tech can help you assess what you’re after, great – if not, use something else. GOOGLE FORM in libguideFor more, see:http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/teaching-guides/assessment/cats/ and book at end.
If you can collaborate with instructors, even better! Seeing student work is extremely helpful and you might even have some suggestions. Final projects: rubrics, source or citation analysis, bibliography check, reflection
This can work to your advantage. Remember it’s data… not evaluation.
Some accrediation standards include information literacy, specifically.
MSU Mechanical Engineering Program Outcomes – these are required for accreditation
Student learning concept, even gives specific course where it’s addressed. I know Heidi is involved in this course. If you weren’t, and found something like this, you could contact that prof and offer your services.
ACRL Value of Academic Libraries report
Drawbacks of learning outcomes rubrics -Easily misinterpreted-No clear vision yet as to how to use for assessment purposesDrawbacks of standardized testing:-Not adaptable to locally-generated outcomes-Not holistic or contextual-Need campuswide buy-in and staff time-Expensivei.e. we’re paying a lot of money to see if students meet an outcome that’s not really ours… or if they do well on a testDrawbacks of curriculum mapping:-MSU is far too big for this to happen-Need buy-in across campus
Cross-disciplinary, intentionally. What does this look like in your discipline? What are you already doing that fits into some of these categories?
Are students learning? If so, what? Is my teaching approach effective? What can I do differently? Are there different ways to approach liaison that could yield more benefits?Reflective reading?