Assessing our Assessment: Failures and Successes at UT-Austin

Assessing our Assessment: Failures and Successes at UT-Austin (.ppt)
Michele Ostrow - Head, Library Instruction Services, University of Texas at Austin
AJ Johnson - Information Literacy Librarian, University of Texas at Austin
Meghan Sitar - Instruction & Outreach Librarian, University of Texas at Austin
When our proposal for integrating information literacy into the new undergraduate core curriculum was accepted, assessing student learning became essential. We will discuss three years of assessment experimentation by sharing what we’ve learned from our failures. Discussion and exercises will guide attendees through the creation of effective assessment questions.