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Starting From Scratch: Implementing A Successful, Multifaceted Information Literacy Program For The First-Year Course, Anthony Holderied
Starting From Scratch: Implementing A Successful, Multifaceted Information Literacy Program For The First-Year Course, Anthony Holderied
The Southeastern Librarian
This study describes a program created from scratch in which collaboration is initiated by librarians with teaching faculty in the first-year program to provide information literacy skills to incoming freshmen. The program is not only successful logistically, but is designed with assessment needs and evidence of student learning in mind. Additionally, the program design takes into account the needs of learners through utilization of a variety of learning activities and teaching tools that include group interaction, web-based tutorials, individual assignments, and peer-learning.
Maximizing One-Shot Impact: Using Pre-Test Responses In The Information Literacy Classroom, Andrea Brooks
Maximizing One-Shot Impact: Using Pre-Test Responses In The Information Literacy Classroom, Andrea Brooks
The Southeastern Librarian
New librarians accepting instructional roles in academic libraries inherit classrooms which have evolved beyond the traditional “sage on a stage” model of bibliographic instruction to more active, student-centered information literacy sessions. However, as in the past, these are still primarily one-shot sessions. Assessment is used to make the most of these fifty-minute meetings and might include pre-tests, post-tests, and various classroom assessment techniques (CATs). Assessment provides important benchmark data to measure student information literacy skills, and the results inform and guide instruction librarians. Each assessment method has unique advantages; however, this article will focus specifically on the pre-test and the …