Results from a survey among IL workshop participants
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Presentation for IATUL 2014
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http://www.rascanu.com
http://www.twitter.com/alexrascanu
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Explore the world of design at MIT-WPU with our guide to B.Des. programs. Find innovative courses, industry connections, and comprehensive approaches shaping future design leaders.
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Academic Networking – Präsenz im Internet
Open Access –- Publizieren an der Universitätsbibliothek
Current Awareness – auf dem Laufenden bleiben über aktuelle Forschung
Long term evaluation of IL programme paperTina Hohmann
Results from a survey among IL workshop participants
after 6-24 months. Comparison with short term feedback. Using self-assesment methods
Paper for IATUL 2014
Information Skills – Targeting Untapped User GroupsTina Hohmann
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The different grids at the University of Warwick are examples for a new trend of developing specific services for different user groups. The architects focused in their design on physical flexibility, newest information technology and contemporary design.
Learning und Research Grids Hohmann deutschTina Hohmann
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Ich möchte der Frage nachgehen, wie diese Konzepte in der Praxis funktionieren, was die Erfolgsfaktoren ausmachen und inwieweit das Design dies unterstützen kann.
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1. Technische Universität MünchenUniversitätsbibliothek
Long term evaluation of Information
Literacy programme
Tina Hohmann
University Library of Technische Universität München
35th
IATUL Conference
Espoo, Finland, 2 – 5 June 2014
23-25 April 2014
7. Technische Universität MünchenUniversitätsbibliothek
• Find out if the workshops make a difference
and long term effectiveness
• Significant differences between short term and long
term evaluation?
• Suggestions (and inspirations) for improvements
Aims and Objectives
9. Technische Universität MünchenUniversitätsbibliothek
Get Ready for Your Studies -
Introductory Library Course
Being prepared is half the battle: Getting started with
studies will be easier for you if you know how you find
important literature…
Get Ready for Your Degree -
Advanced Library Course
It’s getting serious now: You need to find, acquire and
edit the current specialised literature for your topic…
Reference Management with Citavi -
Introductory Course
Keep track of your references! In the Citavi -
Introductory Course, you will learn all the basic
features…
15. Technische Universität MünchenUniversitätsbibliothek
• Do the workshops make a difference for participants?
• Significant differences between short term and long
term evaluation?
• Significant or surprising outcomes
• Any conclusions or further action required?
17. Technische Universität MünchenUniversitätsbibliothek
Great presentation
and helpful instructor!
This event has
supported me in writing
a great dissertation
This was by far the best
training at TUM and
I have received the top
grade for my dissertation!The instructor, Ms (…)
was very good! (…) TOP!This workshop was partof my Masters‘ degreestudies. However, the skillsI have acquired in thisworkshop would havebeen very helpful for
my Bachelor…
24. Technische Universität MünchenUniversitätsbibliothek
More about correct referencing, please
(esp. in connection with the recent
plagiarism scandals) – whereas
collaboration with faculties is needed
in order to develop a standard
referencing style across the university
or at least the faculties.
Currently each chair seems
to have its own referencing style…
27. Technische Universität MünchenUniversitätsbibliothek
Citavi is great –
unfortunately, where I did
my Bachelor’s placement,
everybody was using
EndNote. Inevitably I had
to do the same… At present not
regularly using Citavi
as I had to switch to
Endnote at the request
of my current
supervisor
29. Technische Universität MünchenUniversitätsbibliothek
(…) I had no idea
and none of the
lecturers has
mentioned them
A lot of students,
even in their last year,
are not aware of
the range of resources
on offer. Everybody
should attend this
workshop.
Maybe you should do more toadvertise the fact that you offerworkshops regularly and thatthey are not time-consuming. Iknow quite a few other
students, who would have
benefitted from the workshop,but were not aware of it…
…Both of your
workshops were veryhelpful.
All students from
semester 5 should
attend these
Welcome any comments by libraries with similar projects and experiences
The Technische Universität München (TUM) library was the first university library in Germany to be certified by TÜV with respect to its ISO 9001:2001 quality management.
One of the main objectives of our quality management policies is to measure customer satisfaction in order to constantly develop and improve our services. We have conducted surveys among students and academic staff in the past, but these were more generalised.
In terms of our Information Literacy (IL) programme we decided to introduce evaluations over longer periods of time to complement the existing short term evaluation.
Immediately after IL training events we give out feedback forms to participants to measure their attitudes to the event.
Participants are asked to rate the relevance of the individual topics, to evaluate teaching methods and leave general comments. These provide immediate feedback to the instructor. Once a year course coordinators compile and analyse the data and disseminate the results among the team of instructors.
Additionally, we decided to evaluate the relevance of the training content and its impact for participants in the long-term. How sustainable are the skills acquired in the training and which ones would participants apply in their current studies?
As library instruction at TUM is usually one off, there is limited opportunity for formative evaluation. We agreed on a survey among participants using self-assessment.
Aims and Objectives
Self-report surveys do not measure skills or knowledge, but give an idea of students´ perceptions and attitudes.
We are aware of the limitations of the chosen method as explained by Schilling and Applegate (2012).
We decided to survey our main types of workshops of our standard programme at that time, excluding any embedded training.
The introductory library workshop entitled “Get ready for your studies”
comprises literature search for books and journals, interlibrary loan and internet search.
The advanced library workshop “Get ready for your degree”
includes developing a search strategy, finding the right database for one's subject, searching in databases and referencing.
Further we evaluated the basic workshop on the reference management software Citavi.
The timeframe investigated covered the period between January 2012 to July 2013, which at the time of the survey was between 6 and 24 months ago.
In total we had 96 events to survey. The participants were mainly students, although there were a number of staff who attended the reference management workshops.
The survey was conducted between February and March 2014 as an online survey using the TUM licenced software Evasys. In line with data protection regulations we were allowed to address institutional emai-acounts onlyso we were only able to contact less than half of the participants, which came to a total of 690 emails.
It was open for 2 weeks.
The survey was prepared in consultation with a librarian adept in surveys
All questions were created with the team of the course leaders and discussed several times.
The survey specialist at the university provided us with helpful advice on methodology and technical issues to do with the software.
The questionnaires comprised topics, which were course-specific as well as generic questions.We had 12-14 scaled and multiple choice questions and five open-ended text questions.
This is an example for the Questionnaire re. the advanced library workshop
The questionnaire was divided into five sections. In the first section, the main objectives and terms of the survey were explained, and the participants had to indicate their academic status and faculty. In the second section, we asked participants to assess the significance of the different topics taught in the course in retrospect. These were scaled and correlated to the questions on the feedback form. They were followed by two open-ended questions for comments and any suggestions for additional content. The third section included a range of questions on self-assessing skills and behavior, self-perception and confidence regarding tools and skills we had identified as learning goals. Again, there was an opportunity to leave comments. The forth section focused on participants´ attending other workshops and the awareness of our e-Learning-material. In the final section we asked participants which topics they found most useful and if they had any suggestions for improvement.
The overall return rate of our survey was 23%; in sum..
The return rate was similar across all workshops.
144 questionnaires in total.
71% (introductory workshop) and 83% (advanced workshop) of the participants acknowledge that their research skills have improved since they participated in the workshop. Over all course types and over all topics, a clear majority of participants (76%) rated the content as very important (51%) or important (25%).
In the comments section we received quite a few statements about the positive effect of the workshops, e.g.
Contrary to the feedback we get immediately after the workshops, where participants in the introductory library workshop are not sure about the importance of internet searches we had a consistent high evaluation on this in the long term.
On average, only 61% rated this topic as important in the short-term, and with that it was rated as least important.
In the long-term term, it turned out to be the most important issue with 87% rated this topic as being very important (67%) or important (20%).
On the other hand, more than 34% of participants said that they are not able to find relevant sources on the Internet.
At first, this seems rather contradictory.
This could indicate that we do not teach the right content, but we did not receive any comments that would support this presumption. We interpret these numbers as indicating that being more knowledgeable in this area, participants assessed their own skills more critically than before.
On the short-term feedback forms on the advanced library workshop, only 57% of participants rated referencing as important.
Additionally, we regularly received feedback about this section as being too extensive.
From the current results, it seems this topic is valued more highly over time.
In retrospect more than 75% rated this topic as very important (57%) or important (18%).
Also, it was mentioned by a few participants as an area where they would have liked even more input.
Nevertheless, 40% of participants do not feel confident in this area.
Individual comments indicate that there is great uncertainty about non-existent regulations at the university.
A relatively high number of participants (30%) of the Citavi workshop indicated that they are currently not using Citavi on a regular basis.
At least in some cases this was not their own decision as explained in the comments:
These comments indicate that EndNote is widely-used among TUM staff and industry, which leads to students switching software.
Therefore, we can see the usage statistics for Citavi in a different light.
There were a few comments mentioning the lack of awareness across the university and suggesting embedding the workshops as compulsory components in the curriculum.
There is a clear need to raise awareness of our IL programme across the university.
The results demonstrate that training on internet search is very important to our users.
We will continue teaching it, and acknowledge the need for keeping up to date in this area.
We have recently started developing a guideline on referencing,
which we seek to agree with the TUM ombudsperson for the academic code of practice.
The aim is to publish a set of generic guidelines for the faculties at TUM and to encourage them to commit to one referencing style.
At the same time, we are preparing set of elearning materials on referencing for students to refer to any time.
For the future, we plan to repeat long-term surveys on our IL programme on a regular basis.
Next time we would like to include other course types such as the workshops for PhD candidates and for researchers.
In order to be able to address more participants, we will include a declaration of consent regarding contacting participants on the registration form.
(The pretest for the survey should include more non-library related people to avoid misunderstandings in the questionnaire.)