VALUE- ing Information Literacy: Developing a Community of Practitioners through Assessment

1. VALUE-ing Information Literacy: Developing a Community of Practitioners through Assessment Mary C. MacDonald, Jim Kinnie, and Elaine Finan Project funded by: Davis Educational Foundation, 2010 Wabash 2.0 Study

2. Introduction • Scope of IL on URI Campus • Library IL Programs; scaffolded & incremental • Academic Majors w/SLOs of Information Literacy focus • Curricular Framework: • URI outcomes: Think critically, independently, take initiative based on informed choices. • Gen Ed Information Literacy student learning outcome

3. Introduction • “Are URI students achieving information literacy • competency over the span of an • undergraduate program?”

4. Take-Aways At the end of this session, you will learn how to: Adopt a model for building faculty collaboration around assessment Adapt a process that is transferable and expandable Identify opportunities for applying an information literacy (IL) rubric and engage multiple disciplines

5. Overview Collaborators Practitioners Evaluators “Are URI students achieving information literacy competency over the span of their undergraduate program?”

6. Community of Practitioners Commitment over four years Thirteen faculty Librarians National information literacy assessment expert Assessment Office (SLOAA) Instructional Development Program (IDP)

7. Collaborating Create a shared understanding before measuring for student learning ACRL Five IL Standards: • Determine information needs • Access needed information • Evaluate information sources • Use information to accomplish a specific purpose • Use information legally American Association of Colleges & Universities IL VALUE rubric framework

8. Collaborating Rubric development, 2008-2012 Preparation: Campus wide rubric workshop – 3 librarians Library faculty, subject faculty, national expert, SLOAA Librarians, SLOAA, IDP Developmental scale for IL Competency Beginning, Approaching, Competent

9. Collaborating

10. Let’s Collaborate! *Adapted from the AAC&U VALUE rubric

11. Report out – what did you find?

12. Practicing • Created a URI-Librarian approved IL rubric • Pilot – 2 phases • “Library-Friendly” Faculty from 4 of 7 colleges • History, Sociology, Public Relation, Writing & Rhetoric, Business, Pharmacy, Library (undergraduate), and Natural Resources Science • 442 students evaluated – at least one element • Instructors mapped rubric elements to assignments • Applied rubric to student work

13. Evaluating Combined Results F2011, S2012

14. Evaluating Combined Results F2011, S2012 No IL courses

15. Challenges

16. Rewards

17. Student/Instructor Comparison

18. Student/Instructor Comparison

19. Student/Instructor Comparison

20. Rewards

21. Next Steps Expand project into assessment of IL as a general education learning outcome. Replicate assessment process to evaluate other student learning outcomes. Continue collaboration and assessment across disciplines.

22. Questions/Comments?

23. References American Association of Colleges and Universities. (2013). VALUE: Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education. Retrieved from www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/ April 22, 2013. American Library Association. (2006). Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency April 22, 2013. University of Rhode Island. (2012). University Catalog 2012. Retrieved from http://web.uri.edu/catalog/student-learning-outcomes/ April 18, 2013. University of Rhode Island. (2013). General Education Application - Integrated Skills. Retrieved from http://www.uri.edu/facsen/gen_app/skills.html April 18, 2013. University of Rhode Island Libraries. (2006). Mission Statement. Retrieved from http://www.uri.edu/library/univlibs/mission.html April 21, 2013.