2002-02-21

assessment (of information literacy competencies)



  • Information Literacy Survey, Pat Davitt Maughan,
    Teaching Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1995. While only 7% of students rated their information literacy skills as "pretty poor", 63% of students scored poorly or failed a diagnostic survey.
  • Information Competence Assessment, Kathleen Dunn, University Library, Cal Poly Pomona, 1999. Both the diagnostic tool and the results are available.
  • Assessing the Information Literacy of Undergraduates, Patti Caravello, Eleanor Mitchell, Eloise Borah, and Judith Herschman, University Libraries, UCLA, 2001


assessment (of student performance)




  • Student Success -

    • process assessment - concept map / conference / debriefing / diary / guided discussion / progress report / journal / log / notes / observation / outline / peer evaluation / rating scale / reflective essay / timeline
    • product assessment - criteria / checklist / essay / inventory / peer evaluation / portfolio / rating scale / rubric / scored discussion / self-evaluation / survey / teacher evaluation / test scores - multiple / test scores - open / test scores - true * false

  • Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as a Lever, Arthur W. Chickering and Stephen C. Ehrmann, 2001. Based on "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education.�