1. The Power of Information Literacy Developing and Testing a Campus-Wide IL Rubric Mary C. MacDonald & Jim Kinnie Project funded by: Davis Educational Foundation, 2010 Wabash 2.0 Study

2. “Are URI students achieving information literacy competency over the span of an undergraduate program?” Introduction

3. Scope of IL on URI Campus  Library IL Programs; scaffolded & incremental  Academic Majors w/SLOs of Information Literacy focus Curricular Framework:  URI outcomes: Think critically, independently, take initiative based on informed choices.  Gen Ed Information Literacy student learning outcome

4. Take-Aways You will learn how URI: Built faculty collaboration around assessment Created a process that is transferable and expandable Identified opportunities for applying an information literacy (IL) rubric across multiple disciplines

5. Developing Rubric development 2008-2012 Preparation: Campus wide rubric workshop – 3 librarians Library faculty, subject faculty, national expert, SLOAA Librarians, SLOAA, IDP Developmental scale for IL Competency Beginning, Approaching, Competent

6. Developing Research Analyze/ Evaluate Synthesize/ Integrate Plagiarism Information Literacy

7. Developing Create a shared understanding before measuring for student learning ACRL Five IL Standards: Determine information needs Access needed information Evaluate information sources Use information to accomplish a specific purpose Use information legally American Association of Colleges & Universities IL VALUE rubric framework

8. Developing

9. Piloting Created a URI-Librarian approved IL rubric Pilot – 2 phases “Library-Friendly” Faculty from 4 of 7 colleges  History, Sociology, Public Relation, Writing & Rhetoric, Business, Pharmacy, Library (undergraduate), and Natural Resources Science 442 students evaluated – at least one element Instructors mapped rubric elements to assignments Applied rubric to student work http://www.uri.edu/assessment/uri/guidance/documents/URI_IL_Rubric.pdf

10. Piloting

12. Assessing Combined Results F2011, S2012

13. Assessing Combined Results F2011, S2012 No IL courses

14. Rewards Student- centric Experience in building consensus to define key skills Discipline- neutral discussions about learning and teaching Used results to refine rubric Develop faculty resources and workshops Expand online student resources

15. Currently Expanded project into assessment of IL as a general education learning outcome. In discussion: Replicate assessment process to evaluate other student learning outcomes. Continuing collaboration and assessment across disciplines

16. American Association of Colleges and Universities. (2013). VALUE: Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education. Retrieved from www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/ April 22, 2013. American Library Association. (2006). Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency April 22, 2013. University of Rhode Island. (2012). University Catalog 2012. Retrieved from http://web.uri.edu/catalog/student-learning-outcomes/ April 18, 2013. University of Rhode Island. (2013). General Education Application - Integrated Skills. Retrieved from http://www.uri.edu/facsen/gen_app/skills.html April 18, 2013. University of Rhode Island Libraries. (2006). Mission Statement. Retrieved from http://www.uri.edu/library/univlibs/mission.html April 21, 2013. References

17. The Power of Information Literacy Developing and Testing a Campus-Wide IL Rubric Mary C. MacDonald – marymac@uri.edu Jim Kinnie – jkinnie@uri.edu Mary C. MacDonald – marymac@uri.edu Jim Kinnie – jkinnie@uri.edu Project funded by: Davis Educational Foundation, 2010 Wabash 2.0 Study