Conducting effective assessment toward evaluating student learning outcomes (SLO) is a
difficult and complex process for all higher education professionals. University-level …

This literature review explores the changing nature of the academic library and the role of
the academic librarian within a wider context of societal and higher education change …

Objective–The aim of this study is to demonstrate the impact of a stand-alone, credit-bearing
information literacy course on retention and GPA for students at an open access urban …

This paper details the results of a mixed-methods study of first-year and upper-division
students' information literacy (IL) competencies. The study used a rubric and a survey …

The authors conducted a performance-based assessment of information literacy to
determine if students in a first-year experience course were finding relevant sources, using …

This paper presents assessment data from a first-year writing library partnership to examine
the relationship between student source use and written synthesis. It finds that first-year …

This paper details the process and results of a multistep assessment project addressing
senior Social and Behavioral Science majors' proficiency in information synthesis in …

Librarians at a Midwestern, midsized state university studied the application of their flexible
programmatic information literacy rubric to one-shot first-year writing library instruction. Ten …

In this hermeneutic phenomenological study, the researcher interviewed librarians and
writing instructors to understand their lived experiences of teaching information literacy in …

This study seeks to assess the impact of the current information literacy instruction program
offered by the engineering librarian on freshmen engineering students' abilities to critically …