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Article
Measuring the Research Readiness of Academic and Research Librarians: A Project Report of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship
Proceedings of the 2014 Library Assessment Conference (August 4-6)
(2015)
Abstract
The Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL) is a continuing education program designed to help academic and research librarians improve their research skills and increase their research output. Funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the centerpiece of the project is a nine-day workshop on research design each summer for three years, 2014–2016. Twenty-one participants each year will leave the IRDL with increased knowledge of research skills and with a viable research proposal to be conducted during the following academic year. Project assessment is carried out each of the three years with input from an internal assessment team, the co-investigators, and an external reviewer. The four-part assessment plan includes scoring each research proposal pre- and post-IRDL workshop; social network analysis; mastery of curriculum content; and research confidence, measured by a confidence scale administered immediately before the workshop and at the end. The confidence scale is a revised and expanded version of a scale used with respondents to a survey conducted by two of the researchers in 2010.
Keywords
- research self-efficacy,
- research confidence,
- assessment
Disciplines
Publication Date
2015
Citation Information
Kristine R. Brancolini and Marie R. Kennedy. "Measuring the Research Readiness of Academic and Research Librarians: A Project Report of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship" Proceedings of the 2014 Library Assessment Conference (August 4-6) (2015) p. 188 - 193 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kristine_brancolini/21/