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LFCC's Quality Enhancement Plan focuses on integrating information literacy skills into courses, enhancing critical thinking, and promoting ethical information use. This initiative includes course redesigns, faculty mini-grants, librarian-faculty collaboration, critical thinking assessments, and participation in the LILAC study.
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Information Literacy in Action at LFCC Quality Enhancement Plan- Years One and Two
Information Literacy • Information literacy “is the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning” (ACRL, 2016).
Course “Re-Designs” • SDV 100 • Jay Gillispie, David Gray, Kerry Kilpatrick • Spring 2017 implementation • Re-designed to artifact based assessments in Fall 2018 • ENG 111/112 • Kim Lewis, Jen Schaefer, David Gray, Kerry Kilpatrick • Developed ENG specific online IL modules to be implemented in class, along with a standardized library instruction session • ENG 111- Fall 2019, ENG 112- Spring 2020
Course “Re-Designs” • BIO 102- General Biology II • Brenda Wiens, Brian Wilcox, Ian Hare- Re-design pilot implemented Spring 2019 • Included adding Information Literacy learning objectives to syllabus and online information literacy modules to accompany research assignment • Implemented BIO specific pre-post ILA test • CST 100- Principles of Public Speaking • Cristy Stefnoski- adding an Information Literacy learning objective to CST 100 • Developed pre-post test ILA- Full implementation Fall 2019 • ITE 119- Information Literacy • Jose Nieves- Maintaining current integrity of the course so as to transfer to GMU • Administering a pre-post test ILA developed for the course • Full implementation Fall 2019
Student Research Symposium April 23, 2020 Middletown and Fauquier Campuses
Faculty Mini-Grants • Participants- $500 stipend • Ebrahim Abdurahiman • Elaine Cassel • Rachel Dodson • Russel Kohrs • Curtis Morgan • Cristy Stefnoski Spring 2020 Mini-Grants- Registration October/November 2019
Assessments- Critical Thinking Assessment Test (CAT) • Assesses Critical Thinking and Real- World Problem Solving skills • 2017 Results- Manually Graded • 2019 Results- Online Test, AI Graded Participants have the potential to score 38 points
CAT Application • QEP Leadership will hold a Professional Development Session in Fall 2019 • Review CAT data • Work session on CAT Application Assignment development • Effort to connect our teaching and assessments with real-life application to enhance information literacy and critical thinking
LILAC Study Participation • Learning Information Literacy Across the Curriculum- LILAC • Student survey, Research Aloud Protocol (RAP videos) In what course(s), if any, were you taught library and/or online research skills?
Shenandoah University Town Hall • Margaret Cecere- Ethics • Naomi Simpson- Communications • Annotated Bibliography • Talking Points for Town Hall • Action Plan Assignment • Final Project
Monthly Updates www.lfcc.edu/truth
Faculty Resources • CRAAP Test Infographic • Information Literacy Rubric • Information Literacy Online Modules • Faculty Services link- LFCC library • Project Cora • Librarians • Faculty Professional Development Sessions • www.lfcc.edu/qep
QEP Leadership Team • Kim Lewis- Faculty Lead- klewis@lfcc.edu • Brenda Wiens- bwiens@lfcc.edu • David Gray- dgray@lfcc.edu • Stacey Ellis- sellis@Lfcc.edu