Alternative Assessment Methods Other Ways to Measure Impact of Your Project Adapted in part from Carolyn Radcliff et.al., A Practical Guide to Information Literacy Assessment for Academic Librarians (Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2007), and SOLINET’s “Information Literacy Assessment” E-cademy, 2008

What are you trying to assess?  Feelings, Perceptions, or Opinions?  How your intended audience (students and/or faculty) applies what it has learned and what kind of tasks it can execute?  What your audience knows?

Assessment Approaches  Assessing general skills broadly  Assessing specific skills  Assessing individual standards or specific objectives

Informal Assessment  Observation  Instructor Self-Reflection  Can feed data into program and curriculum- wide assessment initiatives

Other Methods  Surveys  Interviewing  Focus Groups  Concept Maps  Course Embedded Assignments

Other Methods  Research Process Journals and/or Diaries  Bibliographic Analysis  Self Assessment  Teaching Assessments  One Minute Papers  Free Writing Exercise

Standardized Assessments  CMU  Project SAILS  James Madison University  ETS iSkills  (Possibly Free) Bay Area Community Colleges Information Competency Assessment Project

Assessments are for kids?

Involve Other Members of Campus Community  To what extent do faculty require students to use electronic library resources?  To what extent do faculty and other staff use electronic library resources for their own work?