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Huber, Sarah; Bosman, Lisa; Bartholomew, Scott – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
As students are increasingly required to consume visual information, so too are they expected to create such information. In a Midwestern research university, students in an engineering technology portfolio class assembled a visual career board and visual résumé. The instruction and research team collaborated to provide an active learning module…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Visual Literacy, Active Learning, Information Literacy
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Gariepy, Laura W.; Stout, Jennifer A.; Hodge, Megan L. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2016
Librarians face numerous challenges when designing effective, sustainable methods for assessing student learning outcomes in one-shot, course-integrated library instruction sessions. We explore the use of rubrics to programmatically assess authentic learning exercises completed in one-shot library sessions for a large, required sophomore-level…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Scoring Rubrics, Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education
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Guo, Shu – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
Statistics suggest the prevalence of grade inflation nationwide, and researchers perform many analyses on student grades at both university and college levels. This analysis focuses on a one-credit library instruction course for undergraduate students at a large public university. The studies examine thirty semester GPAs and the percentages of As…
Descriptors: Library Instruction, Grades (Scholastic), Trend Analysis, Credits
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Wang, Rui – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2006
This study found that there were statistically significant differences in citation use and grades between students who took a library credit course and students who did not. The results of independent samples t-tests indicated that the student group that took a library credit course cited more scholarly resources, produced fewer incomplete…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Citations (References), Comparative Analysis, Library Skills
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Alexander, Linda B.; Smith, Robert C. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2001
Describes a quasi-experimental study at Western Kentucky University that compared a traditional required, for-credit class in library skills with a Web-based course. Discusses skills level, satisfaction, and demographics, and includes a copy of the student survey used. (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Demography