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Information literacy assessment: a case study at Miami University
The purpose of this case study, created by a faculty learning community (FLC) on research fluency, is to investigate students’ information literacy practices at Miami University, including information search process, ... -
Integrated Information Literacy Assessment using ePortfolios
ePortfolios continue to gain strength in higher education as a viable and relatively quick method for assessment of student work. Miami University recently implemented Chalk & Wire as its ePortfolio system for the entire ... -
Joining forces with Faculty to Foster Information Literacy Best Practices in the Classroom
Faculty often are frustrated by the quality of student research, including low scholarly resource use and lack of evaluation skills. Miami University (Oxford, OH) has created a faculty learning community (comprised of both ... -
Quality and Engaging Student Research Projects: A Student Development Theory Approach
Research projects can cause struggles for students, faculty, and librarians alike. While assumptions are made as to why these struggles occur, we propose that looking at student development theory can further assist in ... -
Reframing Liaisonship: Moving Towards Quality User Engagement
As librarianship continues to evolve, the roles of the liaison librarian have also changed considerably. So, what are the priorities for an effective liaison? This program will detail our institution's reframing of liaison ... -
Reimagining Info Lit Assessment: An Inexpensive and Easy Method for Measuring IL Skill Progression
How information literate are our students? How can we tell if their skills are improving during their college years? Standardized IL tests are available (iCriticalThinking and SAILS), but each requires a considerable ... -
Smart Searching: An Online Information Literacy Tutorial Tailored Specifically To Introductory Engineering Students
A common problem facing librarians today is convincing students about the world of information beyond Google. Traditional library instruction is a reasonable answer, but tends not to be effective. First, introductory science ... -
Spanning the University to Improve Information Literacy e-Instruction
(2010)In Fall 2009, the interactive information literacy module "integrity Quickstart"(iQ) was introduced to first and second-year students at Miami University. iQ, which teaches information literacy and academic integrity ... -
Spicing up the Orientation: Promoting Brill Science Library
This poster describes “Follow The Silk Road….to the Science Library”, a new orientation for the Brill Science Library at Miami University. The orientation combined many important ingredients including outreach, information ... -
Student Perceptions as a Method to Improve Information Literacy
Purpose When considering the information literacy skills of students, faculty (and librarians) often make assumptions as to what students know, understand, or why they act as they do. To help alleviate these misunderstandings, ... -
Sustainably Supporting Assessment Work with Communities of Practice
This session brings together five librarians to discuss their recent projects assessing student success and learning, as well as the communities of practice--the ACRL Assessment in Action learning community environment and ... -
Using Visual Literacy to Demonstrate the Impact of Technological Space
Learn how we assessed the visual literacy skills of students in relation to the use of our technological spaces in the Libraries. We will share the rubric we created to assess student poster presentations at the annual ... -
Visual Literacy Assessment: Engaging Students to Improve Success
Does library engagement of students contribute to their success? This poster will highlight our study of the impact of library services on the development of visual literacy skills. Our research process and results will ... -
What Information Literacy Means to Me: Collaborating with Faculty to Understand Student Perceptions of Information Literacy
This presentation recounts the experiences of The Faculty Learning Community for Improving Student Research Literacy, a community of professors and librarians at Miami University (Oxford, OH). Community members created a ...