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Patience, Persistence, And Process: Embedding A Campus-Wide Information Literacy Program Across The Curriculum, Glenn Johnson-Grau, Susan [Gardner] Archambault, Elisa Acosta, Lindsey Mclean
Patience, Persistence, And Process: Embedding A Campus-Wide Information Literacy Program Across The Curriculum, Glenn Johnson-Grau, Susan [Gardner] Archambault, Elisa Acosta, Lindsey Mclean
Susan Gardner Archambault
This article discusses strategies for academic libraries to collaborate with faculty to institutionalize important information literacy training. The discussion is framed around a case study of a medium-sized academic institution in the United States that successfully embedded information literacy concepts into course-level learning outcomes for three required courses in a new core curriculum.
Curriculum Mapping As A Strategic Planning Tool (Post-Print Proof), Susan [Gardner] Archambault, Jennifer Masunaga
Curriculum Mapping As A Strategic Planning Tool (Post-Print Proof), Susan [Gardner] Archambault, Jennifer Masunaga
Susan Gardner Archambault
Curriculum mapping is a procedure for documenting and visualizing student learning at the programmatic level. The process allows libraries the opportunity to record where information literacy skills are taught across the curriculum in order to locate gaps and redundancies within a library instruction program. It also allows for alignment of the library’s learning outcomes with the learning outcomes important to the institution. This paper presents a review of the history of curriculum mapping, followed by a case study of how Loyola Marymount University (LMU) used the process to support information literacy in a new core curriculum.
Solving The Rubrics Cube: Using Assessment To Sharpen Library Instruction, Elisa Slater Acosta, Susan Gardner
Solving The Rubrics Cube: Using Assessment To Sharpen Library Instruction, Elisa Slater Acosta, Susan Gardner
Susan Gardner Archambault
Loyola Marymount University's (LMU) Reference Department designed a rubric to measure student learning outcomes for freshman English. Students sequentially completed an "English 110 Library Research Worksheet” during library instruction. The rubric which is set up to analyze learning outcomes from parts of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education is applied to collected student worksheets. The Department undertook a multi-step process to try to calibrate the rubric and achieve consensus estimates of inter-rater reliability. During fall 2009, reference & instruction librarians collected 755 worksheets and graded a random sample of 100 students. This poster session will present the …