Meg Frazier and Megan Jaskowiak Cullom-Davis Library Bradley University Learning Concepts Assessment: What Do They Remember?

Who We Are Meg Frazier: MLS in 1989 from UT-Austin At Bradley since 1998 Information Literacy Librarian Liaison Areas: Engineering, Computer Science, Women’s Studies and Theatre Megan Jaskowiak: MLIS in 2013 from Kent St, PhD in 2003 from North Dakota St At Bradley since 2013 Science/Health Science Librarian Liaison Areas: Biology, Chemistry, Health Sciences, Mathematics, Nursing, Physical Therapy, Physics

Who We Are Bradley University: Private, undergraduate institution with graduate programs aimed at returning professionals -- 5,000 undergrads/ 1,000 graduates

3 or 5 Things Learned Assessment Concepts Recall What gets mentioned or What does not

Classroom Assessment One-Minute paper Clear Muddy

Learning Concepts Sheet Will Thalheimer Newness of the Concept Value of the Concept Likelihood of Using the Concept

Some analysis of open ended questions Formulate categories Condense the answers Double check your categories

Our Results Revising Searches –‘narrow’ or ‘revise’ –get better results –select a specific date range Generalized Statements –learned about the library –learned about finding articles –learned about finding books

Our Results ThemesTotal %Librarian 1Librarian 2 How to revise searches Generalized statements I-share Where databases’ links are on library's website Other Finding specific items (newspapers/books/articles) Using Wikipedia's Talk Page ILLiad Finding accurate or credible information Mentioned specific databases Learned nothing new Google Scholar22.82 How use databases citation feature How to find specific encyclopedias10.91 The importance of reading the abstract How to recognize a scholarly article0.410

Answers easier to code Statistical analysis more robust Replication is easier Takes less time Suggest ideas Cannot notice misinterpretations of questions May be too simplistic Participants may find them irritating Pros and cons of closed questions

Standard Descriptive Statistics MeanMedianSkewnessKurtosis How books are arranged in the library? How to search for books in the library catalog? What is the topic section of the catalog record? How to get books and videos from other libraries? Where to search for articles on the library website? What kind of search tool is an article database? How narrow or focus your search in an article database? How to look for different kinds of articles? What are the differences between these search tools: Google Scholar, the library catalog and article databases?

What is normal?

Pearson Correlation of values ABCDEFGHI A10.6(0) 0.4(0)0.5(0) 0.4(0) B0.6(0)1.5(0)0.6(0)0.5(0) 0.4(0) C0.6(0) 10.5(0)0.6(0)0.5(0) 0.4(0) D 0.5(0) 1 0.4(0)0.5(0)0.4(0)0.5(0) E 0.6(0).5(0)10.8(0)0.7(0) 0.5(0) F0.4(0)0.5(0) 0.4(0)0.8(0)10.7(0) 0.6(0) G0.5(0) 0.7(0) 10.8(0)0.6(0) H0.5(0) 0.4(0)0.7(0) 0.8(0)10.7(0) I0.4(0)0.3(0)0.4(0)0.5(0) 0.6(0) 1 A= How books are arranged in the library? B= How to search for books in the library catalog? C= What is the topic section of the catalog record? D= How to get books and videos from other libraries? E= Where to search for articles on the library website? F= What kind of search tool is an article database? G= How narrow or focus your search in an article database? H=How to look for different kinds of article, I= What are the differences between these search tools: Google Scholar, the library catalog and article databases? <0.2Very weak relationship Weak relationship Moderate relationship Strong relationship >0.8Very strong relationship

ABCDEFGHI A10.5(0) 0.4 (0.001) 0.4(0) 0.3(0)0.4(0) 0.4 (0.002) B0.6(0)10.5(0) 0.4(0)0.5(0) C 0.4 (0.001) 0.5(0)1 0.3 (0.007) 0.24 (0.055) 0.4 (0.004) 0.24 (0.055) 0.3 (0.039) 0.50(0) D0.4(0)0.5(0) 0.3 (0.007) 10.6(0)0.5(0)0.4(0) 0.5(0) E0.4(0)0.5(0) 0.2 (0.056) 0.6(0)1 0.5(0) 0.4 (0.001) F0.5(0) 0.4(0)0.5(0)0.6(0)10.7(0)0.6(0)0.5(0) G 0.3 (0.018) 0.4(0) 0.24 (0.055) 0.4(0)0.5(0)0.6(0)10.7(0)0.6(0) H0.4(0)0.5(0)0.3(0)0.4(0)0.5(0)0.6(0)0.7(0)10.5(0) I0.4 (0.002) 0.5(0)0.4 (0.002) 0.5(0)0.4 (0.001) 0.5(0)0.6(0)0.5(0)1 Pearson Correlation of newness

Pearson Correlation QuestionCorrelation between newness and importance How books are arranged in the library?-0.097(0.442) How to search for books in the library catalog?-0.087(0.491) What is the topic section of the catalog record?-0.156(0.215) How to get books and videos from other libraries?-0.044(0.727) Where to search for articles on the library website?-0.282(0.001) What kind of search tool is an article database?0.205(0.107) How narrow or focus your search in an article database? (0.077) How to look for different kinds of articles?-0.358(0.001) What are the differences between these search tools: Google Scholar, the library catalog and article databases? (0.043)

Interpreting Results from Both Analyses Students remembered and seemed to value finding articles/using article databases over finding books/use the library catalog.

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