New Guide: Catching Up With Information Literacy Assessment Resources For Program Evaluation
This web resource guide appears as an article in the April 2012 issue of C&RL News.
Title
Catching Up With Information Literacy Assessment: Resources For Program Evaluation
Author
Cheryl L. Blevens
Assistant Librarian in the Reference Instruction Department
Lliaison to the English Department and Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics Department
Indiana State University
Source
C&RL News (April 2012; Vol 73 No. 4)
From the Intro
Academic librarians charged with developing a reliable assessment tool for their libraries’ information literacy instruction programs can find a wealth of resources that are readily available from both commercially and institutionally developed and administered products that are used among librarian peers across the country and throughout the world. In an article that appeared in the November 2010, issue of C&RL News, Jennifer Jarson provided links to several such resources.
The goal of this article is to build on the assessment links Jarson provided. Her stated goal was to “guide readers to important resources for understanding information literacy and to provide tools for readers to advocate for information literacy’s place in higher education curricula.” In addition to the information on resources and tools, Jarson provided links to universities whose assessment tools were available for review on their Web sites. For this article, selected Web sites have been accessed and evaluated further. A handful of additional information resources have been profiled, including new Web sites that offer a variety of assessment tool formats.
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.