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Building Information Competency Workshops Through Collaboration

Learn how Glendale Community College offers diverse IC workshops covering research strategies, web resources, and assessment to improve student outcomes. Discover the collaborative program featuring standardized content, active learning exercises, and statistical assessments for evidence-based success.

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Building Information Competency Workshops Through Collaboration

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  1. Campus Collaboration to Build a Series of Information Competency Workshops Nancy Getty and Deborah Moore Glendale Community College LOEX 2007

  2. Components of Our Library Workshop Program • Pedagogy • Content • Administration • Assessment COLLABORATION

  3. Overview of GCC • Approx. 37,648 students • 14,025 FTE students • 23,371 credit students (f/t & p/t) • 14,277 non-credit students (f/t & p/t) • Many non-native English speakers • Librarians: • 5 F/T librarians • 2.8 FTE in P/T librarians

  4. Information Competency (IC)Instruction at GCC • Standardized, one-hour IC workshops • Two-unit Introduction to Information Competency course (LIB 191) • One-shot IC instruction sessions • Online research guides

  5. Our Workshop Program Eight workshops currently offered: • Research Strategies • Searching Online Catalogs • Locating Journal & Newspaper Articles • Internet Essentials • Academic Research on the Web • Critical Evaluation of Web Resources • Improving Library Research • Government Resources

  6. More Under Development • Citing Sources • Keyword vs. Subject Searching • Versions for ESL students (planned)

  7. Workshop Details • 27-computer instruction room • Standardized content • Handout and online materials • Active learning exercises • Core IC skills stressed • 1 hour of instruction

  8. Administrative Features of the Workshop Program • Workshops taught by both F/T and P/T library faculty • provide outlines for instructors • provide training for instructors • Workshops offered 11 times per week on a rotating schedule • web database for registration and statistics

  9. Program Collaboration • Program built through grant funding • Use of Workshop Program • more than 50 classroom instructors regularly require or recommend the workshops • total attendance in 1999/2000 was 3254 students • total attendance in 2005/2006 was 4452 = increase of 36.8%

  10. Workshop Program Pedagogy • Started as lecture/demo sessions • Revised to include active learning exercises • Revised again to include: • a more constructivist and conceptual approach • small group discovery and problem-based exercises

  11. Pedagogy Collaboration • Library colleagues • Conference attendance and presentations • Regional library instruction group participation

  12. Workshop Program Content Core competencies: • address only a few in each workshop • can make changes without overhauling the entire program Internet Essentials Internet I: The Basics Academic Research on the Web Internet Basics Internet II: Searching & Eval. Critical Evaluation of Web Resources

  13. Content Collaboration Development of: • core competencies with Research Across the Curriculum (RAC) committee • new content with English faculty • content and revisions with GCC library colleagues

  14. Workshop Program Administration • Recruiting/training workshop instructors • Scheduling • Workshop database for registration and research

  15. Administrative Collaboration • Instructional Technology Services (ITS) for database • Library faculty as workshop instructors

  16. Assessment of Workshop Program Quantitative Research Project: • Done by Research & Planning Unit & Library • Measures students in ESL151, ENG120 & ENG101 courses • compares students who attended workshops with those who didn’t in the same course • statistical significance determined by chi-squared tests

  17. Assessment (con’t.) Measures student success SUCCESS % of students enrolled at census who receive A, B, C or credit in the target class =

  18. Research Project: What It Shows Students attending workshops were more successful in targeted courses. 2000 – 2005 Average success rate for students enrolled in English 101 who take the workshops is 15% higher. For English 120 the average rate is 14% higher. For ESL 151 the average rate is also 14% higher.

  19. Assessment Collaboration • Assessment written into grant • Conclusions reported to faculty to promote interest in IC and collaboration • statistical evidence increases credibility of workshop program • helps maintain funding for program • Instruction librarians at forefront of Student Learning Outcomes assessment

  20. Transferability to Other Settings • Flexible size of program • Adaptable pedagogy • Independent content • Assessment can be done in any setting

  21. Strategies to Apply This IC Approach to Your Library • Write a grant with non-library colleagues • Develop an IC instruction program with non-library colleagues • Revise the program collaboratively • Fit IC into broad institutional goals • Assess and share the information • Publish/present with non-library colleagues

  22. Presentation and resources available at: http://www.glendale.edu/library/information/LOEX2007.htmlNancy Getty(818) 240-1000 x5795 ngetty@glendale.eduDeborah Moore(818) 240-1000 x5759dmoore@glendale.edu Presented: May 5, 2007 @ LOEX, San Diego, CA

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