Mary Broussard shares her experiences working with an English professor to enhance in-person research instruction using ResearchReady, a research instruction and assessment platform. This presentation highlights ResearchReady’s customization and assessment features, including how the students felt about ResearchReady as a learning tool, and the professor’s reflections on the resulting papers.

1. Tailoring ResearchReady for
Writing Composition Classes
Mary Broussard
Lycoming College

2. Who I am & how I got involved

3. What I love about ResearchReady
•Can be used
out of the box
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4. What I love about ResearchReady
•But is also very
customizable
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5. What I love about ResearchReady
•Good balance
of text and
video
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6. What I love about ResearchReady
•Can collect a lot of
assessment data

7. Can be used for
• Formative assessment
• More exposure to information literacy in a class
• Flip an information literacy class
• As an online class

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9. My experience with English composition
• Summer 2014, approached English professor about adding ResearchReady
• Worked together to customize ResearchReady
• Goals:
• Get more information literacy into existing relationship
• Get more assessment data related to their information literacy knowledge and skills
• Flip the two visits to the library, to some extent

10. “Pre-Made” vs. Customized
• Worked with Level 2
• Worked with professor to select
appropriate lessons:
• Web Evaluation
• Conquering the Research Process
• Popular & Scholarly Sources
• Added pre- & post-tests tailored to the
specific assignment
• Shortened Web Evaluation course by
eliminating some practice lessons
• Created my own plagiarism tutorial video
using Adobe Captivate
• Created another video tailored to the
particular assignment

11. My experience with English composition

12. My experience with English composition
• 3 sections of Freshman Composition in Fall 2014 (~55 students)
• 2 sections of Freshman Composition in Spring 2015 (~35 students)

13. Assessment

14. Assessment

15. Assessment

16. Key assessment results

17. Key assessment results

18. Key assessment results:
Which of the following helps you locate items on the shelves at
most libraries?

19. Reflection
• Students liked it
• Professor was happier with bibliographies
• People behind the product are helpful
• Hopes for expanding it next year

20. Questions?
• Mary Broussard
• Instructional Services Librarian
• Lycoming College
• broussm@lycoming.edu

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