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Assessing An Institution-Wide Information Fluency Program: Commitment, Plan, And Purposes, Penny Beile
Assessing An Institution-Wide Information Fluency Program: Commitment, Plan, And Purposes, Penny Beile
Penny Beile
University of Central Florida faculty and administrators recently endorsed a library-initiated proposal to integrate information fluency across the curriculum. The information fluency proposal was drafted in response to a university-wide call for proposals for a quality enhancement plan, which is a requirement for reaffirmation by the institution's regional accrediting body. After selecting information fluency as the winning proposal, university administrators, program and library faculty, and other support units collaborated to develop a comprehensive implementation and assessment plan. This article describes the role and purpose of a quality enhancement plan and the process by which information fluency was selected as a …
Information Literacy Assessment: A Review Of Objective And Interpretive Measures, Penny Beile
Information Literacy Assessment: A Review Of Objective And Interpretive Measures, Penny Beile
Penny Beile
Information literacy has been recognized as a critical skill by professional associations and regional accrediting bodies. Consequently, institutions are increasingly integrating information literacy instruction into the academic curriculum, in turn creating the need to assess instructional impact. However, information literacy is a relatively new concept and credible assessment tools are only now forthcoming. This paper summarizes several information literacy assessment tools recent to the market, including three instruments that measure cognitive knowledge of information literacy skills at the general education level, and a test that measures knowledge of information sources and structures pertinent to the field of education. Information literacy …
Take A Deep Breath: On Not Losing The Turtle In The Technology, Marilyn R. Pukkila
Take A Deep Breath: On Not Losing The Turtle In The Technology, Marilyn R. Pukkila
Marilyn R. Pukkila
Understanding media messages and selecting worthwhile sources of information require the ability to analyze and deconstruct messages.