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WORKSHOP-GENERATED SLOS AND ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
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Type of SLO
SLO (Students will be able to …)
Assessment
Measurement Criteria
Circulation/Access Services
Employ their library cards.
Comparative statistics of library card use: total users, type of use, frequency.
An increase of use for more than one service: 3 to 5 services and more than 60% of student population has a card.
Instruction/Orientation
1. Distinguish between information sources available through the library online resources and those available on general Internet sites.
 
2. Identify an appropriate information resource based on information need.  (E.g., a working definition or overview of the topic is needed at the beginning of a research assignment.)
1a.  Survey question on how to get to the Literature Resource Center (through the library homepage, through a search engine, etc.).
 
1b. Have the students go online to locate the TITLE and CALL NUMBER of a library book on their topic
 
2. Survey question:  If you were beginning your research paper and wanted to get a brief overview and/or working knowledge of oyour topic, which of the following resources would you use?
1a. The student chooses the best way to get to the LRC.
 
1b. Student demonstrates ability to navigate to the library web-based online catalog and enter the appropriate search used to identify a book on their topic.
 
2. Student correctly responds.
Reference
1. Formulate a question appropriate to their information need.
 
 
 
 
 2. Identify appropriate potential resources to answer questions.
1a. Student restates the question.
1b. Librarian understands the restatement.
 
 
 
 2. Students share their results.
1a. 80% successful restatements.
1b. Rubric:
(i) Student able to restate.
(ii) Student still vague.
(iii) Student still confused.
 
2. Rubric:
(i) Identifies appropriate materials.
(ii) Partially identifies appropriate materials, but some inappropriate.
(iii) Identifies inappropriate materials.
 
Credit Course
Use an accepted bibliographic standard (MLA, APA, etc.) to format a citation for a particular source (magazine article, Web site, etc.).
 Task: Have the student format a bibliographic citation for an article found using the library's online databases, OR for a book OR a Web site OR all three.
 Student correctly formats a bibliographic citation for the given source.
Overall Program
Recognize different areas of the physical and virtual library and demonstrate knowledge of the services offered within each area.
Map/quiz
70% of students will correctly answer 60% of the questions.

 

 

 

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