Includes bibliographical references.

Assessing information literacy instruction / Elizabeth Fuseler Avery -- Planning for assessment / Gabriela Sonntag and Yvonne Meulemans -- Selecting and developing assessment tools / Bonnie Gratch-Lindauer -- Analyzing data / Cynthia H. Comer -- Reporting results / Cynthia H. Comer -- First year experience research skills survey / Alison Armstrong -- Information competency as historian's craft / Michael Barrett -- Assessing liberal arts classes / Lori E. Buchanan -- Assessing student learning outcomes : training academic librarians / Barbara Burd -- Assessing student learning in sociology / Cynthia H. Comer -- An information literacy assessment tool / Jennifer Dorner -- Midlands Technical College : information literacy assessment project / Catherine Eckman -- Information literacy assessment at a small commuter campus / Janet Feldman -- Assessing student learning for information literacy in a core business class / Ann Fiegen and Bennett Cherry -- Using rubrics to assess information literacy attainment in a community college education class / Dana Franks -- Assessing information in English composition class / Marcia Freyman -- Webliography assignment for lifetime wellness class / Nancy Gauss and Kathleen Kinkema -- Assessing student learning outcomes in political science classes / Elizabeth O. Hutchins -- Montana State University : information literacy assessment project / Ken Kempcke -- Institutionalizing a graduation requirement / Andy Kivel -- Assessing student learning through the analysis of research papers / Lorrie A. Knight -- Information literacy in community college communications courses / Barbara Kobritz -- Integrated information literacy impact study / Patrick McCarthy and Gregory Heald -- Assessing information literacy in community college human services courses / Robert Schroeder -- Assessment of student learning in ENGL 101 composition / Ris︠ ︡L. Smith -- Information literacy assessment for Introduction to music course / Ann Viles -- Assessing abilities of freshman to reconcile new knowledge with prior knowledge / Marjorie M. Warmkessel -- Past lives : an exercise in historical research with an annotated bibliography requirement / Clay Williams and Anita Ondrusek -- Ethnography and information literacy : an assessment project / Steve Witt and Rebecca Gearhart.

This book gives librarians the tools needed to create baseline data that will support the merits of information literacy programs in their institutions. Methods and skills that have been used to carry out effective assessment programs are illustrated including deciding what is to be learned from the program, establishing learning outcomes, data analysis, consideration of costs, and involvement of faculty.

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