Assessing the Impact of IC Learning Opportunities: Selected Documents (August 2000)

I. Selected Readings for Assessing Student Learning

1. AAHE Assessment Forum. Principles of Good Practice for Assessing Student Learning. Washington D.C.: American Association for Higher Education, 1992. http://www.aahe.org/assessment/principl.htm
2. Pausch, Lois M. and Mary. P. Popp. Assessment of Information Literacy: Lessons from the Higher Education Assessment Movement http://www.ala.org/acrl/paperhtm/d30.html
3. Annotated Selected Bibliography on the Evaluation of Library Instruction. SUNY Librarians Assoc. Feb. 1999.
http://library.lib.binghamton.edu/sunyla/sunylabig.html

II. Assessment Methods and Strategies

1. Angelo, Thomas A. and K. Patricia Cross. Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers. Rev.ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
2. Black, Lendley C. "Portfolio Assessment," in Making a Difference: Outcomes of a Decade of Assessment in Higher Education, Trudy Banta, ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993. 139-150.
3. Evaluating Bibliographic Instruction: A Handbook.. Chicago: ACRL/ALA, 1983.
4. Gratch, Bonnie. "Toward a Methodology for Evaluating Research Paper Bibliographies," Research Strategies 3 (Fall 1985): 170-177.
5. Greer, Arlene, Lee Weston, and Mary Alm, "Assessment of Learning Outcomes: A Measure of Progress in Library Literacy," College & Research Libraries 52 (November 1991): 549-557.
6. Shonrock, Diana D., ed. Evaluating Library Instruction: Sample Questions, Forms, and Strategies for Practical Use. Chicago: Library Instruction Round Table, American Library Association, 1996.
7. Wiggins, Grant. "Creating Tests Worth Taking." Educational Leadership 49 (May 1992): 26-33.
8. Young, Virginia and Linda G. Ackerson. "Evaluation of Student Research Paper Bibliographies: Refining Evaluation Criteria." Research Strategies 13 (1995): 80-93.

III. Information Literacy Standards and Assessment Models

1. ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education, Jan. 2000. http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilcomstan.html
2. Information Competency Project to Develop a Comprehensive Model List of Information Competence Skills for High School and Community College Students. Updated 5 May 1999. CSU- Dominguez Hills University Library. http://library.csudh.edu/infocomp/
3. Information Literacy Project Description (Assessment). CSU-San Marcos. Updated Aug.1999. http://ww2.csusm.edu/library/ILP/measuring_minds_grant.htm
4. Information Competency University Learning Requirements -Draft. Feb. 1999. CSU-Monterey Bay. http://library.monterey.edu/instruction/grant/outcomes.html
5. Information Competence Assessment & Grant. Oct. 1998.CSU-Pomona. 20 Sept. 1999. http://www.csupomona.edu~library/InfoComp/InfoComp_Assessment.html
Online test: http://134.71.180.48/new_lib.htm
6. Library Instruction Assessment Plan. CSU-Sacramento. Updated 3 June 1999. http://www.csus.edu/indiv/g/goffl/libinst/assess.htm
7. CSU Information Competence - Cal-Poly's Web Tutorials. Update 12 Mar. 1999. http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/modules/index.html

IV. Assessing Teaching

1. Angelo, Thomas A. and K. Patricia Cross. Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers. Rev. ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
2. CSU-San Marcos.Checklist for Measuring Assignments for Information Competencies. Updated Aug. 1999. http://ww2.csusm.edu/library/ILP/checklist.htm
3. Virginia Commonwealth University: Library Instruction Evaluation Form (A web-based form for gathering student reactions to class instruction). 1999. http://www.library.vcu.edu/help/train/bieval.html

V. Selected Resources for Current Awareness and Ideas (in addition to websites for LOEX, National Institute for Information Literacy, ACRL-Instruction Section)

1. AAHE Assessment Forum http://www.aahe.org/assessment/assessnw.htm
2. California State University Information Competence Project.
http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/infocomp/index.html
3. Assessment in Library & Info. Literacy Instruction. Updated 24 Aug. 1999.
http://www.library.unr. edu/~ragains/assess.html

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