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Presentation
Solving the Rubrics Cube: Using Assessment to Sharpen Library Instruction
American Library Association (2010)
  • Elisa Slater Acosta, Loyola Marymount University
  • Susan Gardner, Loyola Marymount University
Abstract
Loyola Marymount University's (LMU) Reference Department designed a rubric to measure student learning outcomes for freshman English. Students sequentially completed an "English 110 Library Research Worksheet” during library instruction. The rubric which is set up to analyze learning outcomes from parts of the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education is applied to collected student worksheets. The Department undertook a multi-step process to try to calibrate the rubric and achieve consensus estimates of inter-rater reliability. During fall 2009, reference & instruction librarians collected 755 worksheets and graded a random sample of 100 students. This poster session will present the assessment results, both strengths and weaknesses and how that information will impact library instruction for fall 2010.
Keywords
  • rubric,
  • information literacy
Publication Date
2010
Citation Information
Acosta, E. & Gardner, S. (2010, June). Solving the rubrics cube: Using assessment to sharpen library instruction. Poster presentation at the Annual Conference of the American Library Association, Washington DC. Available at: http://works.bepress.com/elisa_acosta/1