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Information Literacy Assessment: Keep It Simple, Keep It Going, Larry Sheret, John A. Steele Apr 2013

Information Literacy Assessment: Keep It Simple, Keep It Going, Larry Sheret, John A. Steele

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Is it possible to administer an information literacy assessment in only a few classes that would provide essential, adequate, data from semester to semester? In a college with a student body of about 2,000, would it be possible to obtain actionable assessment results if only 150 to 200 students were assessed each semester?

This article is the result of the creation and implementation of the information literacy assessment that was launched in the fall of 2009 by Savage Library at Western State College of Colorado (WSC). WSC changed its name to Western State Colorado University on August 1, 2012. The …