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Diller, Karen R.; Phelps, Sue F. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2008
Librarians at Washington State University Vancouver helped the campus develop a method of assessing its General Education Program, a program based on university learning goals, one of which is information literacy. The assessment method, which relies on an electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) along with rubrics to evaluate work in the ePortfolio,…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Student Evaluation, Performance Based Assessment, Program Effectiveness
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Tancheva, Kornelia; Andrews, Camille; Steinhart, Gail – Public Services Quarterly, 2007
Determining the best methods of assessment for a library instruction program in a large research university can be a challenging task. Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University Library has pilot-tested three methods of formative and summative assessment for its library instruction program--attitudinal, outcomes-based, and gap-measure--and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Instruction, Teaching Methods, Evaluation Methods
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Brasley, Stephanie Sterling – Public Services Quarterly, 2007
The UCLA Library has had a long-standing commitment to the attributes espoused by the teaching library model outlined in the seminal essay by Stoffle, Guskin and Boisse, "Teaching, Research, and Service: The Academic Library's Role" (1984). Information literacy was identified as a goal in the Library's strategic plan in late 2001. This…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Library Instruction
Allen, Mary J. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2006
General education is the core of the undergraduate experience. It provides a lasting foundation for students' future academic, civil, cultural, economic, and social lives. Additionally, as part of most general education curricula, general education as well as first-year experience programs are becoming virtually universal in colleges and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, School Holding Power, General Education, Higher Education