Conference Session

Assessment of Information Literacy Programs for Engineers

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alysia Starkey, Kansas State University-Salina; Jung Oh, Kansas State University-Salina; Judith Collins, Kansas State University-Salina; Beverlee Kissick, Kansas State University-Salina

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

appropriateness of students’ selected information sources tothe question they have chosen to research, specific to their majors.The actual incorporation of the information into the students’ own rhetorical purposes,synthesizing disparate information sources as they write the analytical report, can also beobserved qualitatively. One new assignment feature this year asked students to log their visits tovarious databases, describe which were useful, and track the keywords they employed. Librarianand faculty partnerships will next year consider appropriate means for documenting indicators ofinformation fluency through bibliographic examination.For an example of graduate-level assessment, the University of X Librarians, in a graduatechemistry course