Assessment: 

Trocaire College Information Literacy Assessment

• Trocaire Library Assessment FORMS

• Trocaire Library Assessment Planning Document & RUBRIC :

  • Target (embedded) information literacy outcome(s) for one lesson assignment in the GS 102 "College Seminar" course.
  • Target overall course objectives for GS 101, "Information & Research Basics" class.
  • Indirect Goal(s):

  a. Target college-wide, course-related (embedded), information literacy objective(s).

  b. Partially fulfill Middle States Accreditation requirements for information literacy.

  c. Promote and encourage student life-long learning.

• Information for instructors scheduling a Library tour or Database searching session with the library.

• Library Use Questionnaire This questionnaire is used to give the instructor an idea of how familiar students are with the library.

ALA (American Library Association) © 2003 American Library Association

• Assessment Bibliography on Information Literacy
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• CONCEPT MAPPING
• FOCUS GROUPS
• GENERAL
• INFORMATION LITERACY SPECIFIC
• LIBRARY
• PORTFOLIOS
• SELF EVALUATION
• TESTS
• OTHER

Assessment Using FOCUS GROUPS:

McNamara, Carter. Basics of Conducting Focus Groups, 1999. Available at http://www.mapnp.org/library/evaluatn/focusgrp.htm

Youberg, Fred. Guidelines for Conducting Focus Groups. Available at http://link.unm.edu/Library_Documents/focusgrp.htm

Assessment Using Rubric Templates: 

Stevens D. and Antonia Levi. Introduction to Rubrics: An Assessment Tool to Save Grading Time, Convey Effective Feedback and Promote Student Learning, 2005. Available at http://styluspub.com/resources/introductiontorubrics.aspx

Assessment Resources/Tools

TRAILS (Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills), is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills appropriate for high school students. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for library media specialists and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students. TRAILS may be of use to academic librarians who are doing high school outreach or working with pre-service teachers.

New features:
* five refined information literacy categories, each with two new, 10-item assessments
* improved items on each of the 30-item general assessments 
* capability to copy student codes to use in a new session 
* capability for students to review their responses after a session is closed 
* improved session management 
* discussion list for account holders to get news and share ideas 

TRAILS is a project of the Institute for Library and Information Literacy Education (ILILE ) at Kent State University and is directed by the University Libraries. ILILE is funded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the U.S. Department of Education. 
Copyright © 2006 Kent State University Libraries & Media Services

Updated May 07, 2008