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

will be gathered, and how?Assessing information fluencyThis section shares examples of preliminary assessment efforts. The central question is, “Dostudents have the technical, conceptual and critical thinking skills of information [fluency] tosucceed in their profession?”7 The “best practices” for assessing a student process likesecondary research can be time-intensive, for example: • Portfolio assessment including steps from brainstorming • Interviews with students at each stage of research process • Summative assessments of work completed, including oral defense • Observing students and monitoring their work as they search and retrieve8For practical reasons, collaborators have used confidence intervals, an