1. Increasing Our Reach While Preserving Quality:
Creating and Using Information Literacy Assessments and Rubrics for Non-Librarians
Rory Patterson, Coordinator, Undergraduate and Online Research Librarian, Integrated Learning Research Center
Angela Rice, Learning Commons Coordinator, Integrated Learning Research Center
Jeremy Roden, Instructional Designer, Center for Curriculum Development, Adjunct Professor

2. Who Are We? Rory Patterson: Angela Rice: Jeremy Roden:
Coordinator, Undergraduate and Online Research Librarian, Integrated Learning Resource Center
Angela Rice:
Learning Commons Coordinator, Integrated Learning Resource Center
Jeremy Roden:
Instructional Designer, Center for Curriculum Development, Adjunct Professor

3. What Will You Learn? Justifying and using rubrics Creating rubrics
Norming rubrics
Implementing rubrics

4. Justifying and Using Rubrics
Assess teaching and learning
Programmatic assessment
Assess content mastered not class attended or content learned.

5. Justifying and Using Rubrics
Allows library to increase its reach
Can be used by non-librarians
Standard assessment points for:
Librarians
Non-librarian faculty

6. Creating Rubrics Wording the Standards
Instructions aligned with objectives
Use familiar/similar language used in instructions
Use positive language
Delineate dimensions or characteristics

7. Creating Rubrics cont. Creating Levels of Assessment
Even number of levels
Arrangement of degree of mastery varies
Create descriptions of optimal and incompetent levels of mastery
Create other two levels
Use specific language including numbers
Experiment and Gather Feedback and Adjust

8. Audience Application:
ACRL Information Literacy Competency
Standard 5, Performance Indicator 3
Choice of four outcomes
Write your measurable outcome
Write four levels of outcomes
Excellent
Good
Acceptable
Poor

9. Norming Rubrics Tell the faculty what is expected
Show faculty how to do it
Have faculty do it
Review faculties’ efforts
Norm or spot check on set schedule, so stay consistent

10. Audience Application Take annotated bibliography
Review with “How did you get each item?”
Review one item
Audience reviews others and their evaluations

11. Implementing Rubrics in Blackboard
How to implement rubrics
Attached rubrics
Embedded rubrics
Best practices
Do the points add correctly
Point range or percentages
Are the columns accurately reflecting the grading scale
Include a copy of the rubric for students to view

12. Implementing Rubrics in Blackboard
Troubleshooting
Inability to see grades
Incorrect point totals
Incapable of linking to SafeAssign

13. Questions? Reviewing What we covered
Justifying use and norming rubrics
Understanding how to construct rubrics
Demonstrate how to norm rubrics
Questions?

14. Thank you for attending! Contacts:
Rory:
Angela:
Jeremy: