WORKSHOP-GENERATED SLOS AND ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
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Type of SLO
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SLO (Students will be able to …)
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Assessment
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Measurement Criteria
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Circulation/Access Services
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Employ their library cards.
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Comparative statistics of library card use: total users, type of use, frequency.
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An increase of use for more than one service: 3 to 5 services and more than 60% of student population has a card.
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Instruction/Orientation
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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.)
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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?
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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.
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Reference
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1. Formulate a question appropriate to their information need.
2. Identify appropriate potential resources to answer questions.
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1a. Student restates the question.
1b. Librarian understands the restatement.
2. Students share their results.
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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.
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Credit Course
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Use an accepted bibliographic standard (MLA, APA, etc.) to format a citation for a particular source (magazine article, Web site, etc.).
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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.
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Student correctly formats a bibliographic citation for the given source.
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Overall Program
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Recognize different areas of the physical and virtual library and demonstrate knowledge of the services offered within each area.
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Map/quiz
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70% of students will correctly answer 60% of the questions.
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