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2015

Information literacy

Susan Gardner Archambault

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Measure For Measure: Using Collaborative Assessment To Build Stronger Information Literacy Skills, Susan Archambault Jun 2015

Measure For Measure: Using Collaborative Assessment To Build Stronger Information Literacy Skills, Susan Archambault

Susan Gardner Archambault

This paper will present a case study of how Loyola Marymount University (LMU) evaluated the information literacy component across 72 required Rhetorical Arts course sections taken by 1272 freshmen in Spring 2014. Rhetorical Arts is designed to teach students the time- honored tradition of the “good person writing and speaking well for the public good.” The course requirements (as dictated by a common syllabus) include one face-to-face librarian-led workshop, and coursework requiring students to develop a research topic, create a research diary, and create an annotated bibliography. Supporting material for students created by the library to enhance or supplement the …

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Curriculum Mapping As A Strategic Planning Tool (Post-Print Proof), Susan [Gardner] Archambault, Jennifer Masunaga Dec 2014

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.

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