1. Plattsburgh’s Information Management Assessment Michelle Toth

2. Information & Technology Literacy Required LIB105 (or proficiency exam) Integrated in all General Education courses: – “General Education courses will: integrate critical thinking and information literacy/management competencies into the curriculum”

3. Assessment Cycle Every Three years Coordinated through the Provost’s office Gen Ed upper level integration ‘Global Issues’ course students are used for assessment

4. Info Management Assessments 2002-2003 - Home grown multiple choice 2005-2006 – Revised home grown multiple choice 2008-2009 – ETS’s iSkills

5. 2002-2003 Home grown multiple choice assessment. – Questions grouped to match SUNY Information Management categories Demographic data, number of credit hours completed, took the course, passed the exam, transfer credit, or requirement unmet

6. 2005-2006 Librarians reviewed the 2003 item analysis of the assessment questions & made revisions Structure and division of questions remained the same along with demographic data Suggested raising the level scores

7. 2008-2009 ETS iSkills Assessment (Now defunct, replaced with iCritical Thinking) Computer simulation-based assessment Results limited to ETS reports/data – Individual scores not broken down in the categories – No standard score for meeting/exceeding, etc…

8. Assessment Results Perform basic operations of personal computer use – Students met or exceeded 2003 = 88.6% – Students met or exceeded 2005 = 87.1% – Not available for 2009 (iSkills)

9. Assessment Results Understand and use basic research techniques – Students met or exceeded 2003 = 75.7% – Students met or exceeded 2005 = 73.5% – Not available for 2009 (iSkills)

10. Assessment Results Locate, evaluate and synthesize information from a variety of sources – Students met or exceeded 2003 = 82.4% – Students met or exceeded 2005 = 61.23% – Not available for 2009 (iSkills)

11. Assessment Results iSkills Results: Unable to break out results into the 3 Information Management categories 64% of students assessed met or exceeded overall (includes all categories)

12. What Next?

13. 2011-2012 Option #1: Return to home grown exam – Will need extensive revisions – Will provide comparable data for ’03 and ’06 – Ensure data broken down into I.M. categories

14. 2011-2012 Option #2: Find another outside assessment – Cost is a concern – Lose comparability of past data – More or less staff time to set up, run and report

15. 2011-2012 Option #3: (I’ll let you know when I come up with it) – May be a better alternative that answers all of our assessment prayers – May make my life more stressful than it already is