Information Literacy

Trocaire Information Literacy

• Assessment Resources, (forms etc.)

• Core Competencies Standards at Trocaire College

• College Success Information Literacy Initiatives

• Course Planning Form for Faculty Information Literacy 

• Grading Assessment RUBRIC for Information Literacy (College-wide Standard, Approved By AC April 2009)

 American Library Association (ALA)

• Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) standards

• Information Literacy Best Practices from ALA American Library Association.

• Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning

• Objectives for Information Literacy Instruction: A Model Statement for Academic Librarians 
  ©2003 ACRL (the Association of College & Research Libraries)

• Middle States Executive Summary: "Developing Research & Communication Skills: Guidelines for Information"

• Wiki on Student Learning Outcomes
• Includes Bloom’s taxonomy, rubrics, creating quality learning outcomes etc. 
• "Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) in CC Libraries (March 5th and April 30th 2008)

A Nuts & Bolts, Best Practices Look at How to Develop and Use SLO Assessment Tools for Library Services, from the Council of Chief Librarians (CCL) California Community Colleges.

Tests/ Tools

• Project Sails - SAILS (Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills). Aligned with ACRL Standards.SAILS is located at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Cost and fees are calculated once a school finishes testing and are based on actual numbers of students completing the test.

• Tools 4Teachers.org © 2000-2007 ALTEC (Advanced Learning Technologies in Education Consortia) 

Offers FREE online tools and resources to integrate technology into the classroom by offering  This site helps create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars.

• WASSAIL

Open source software for assessment,  is available to individual/institutional users. (WASSAIL is a server application and cannot be installed to a local computer). Guest access to try WASSAIL before downloading and installing is available at: https://wassail.augustana.ualberta.ca/
(username: "guest" and password: "tryWASSAIL" ) .. note that data in this login is not backed up or managed in any way.

Updated 6/20/2011