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This document provides steps and goals for integrating information literacy skills across educational disciplines, creating student learning outcomes, and collaborating with faculty to enhance instruction and assessment. The shared definition of information literacy, guidelines for creating SLOs, strategies for integration within the School of Education curriculum, and suggestions for future actions are outlined.
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Framing the Work: Creating Student Learning Outcomes for Information Literacy Amy Bessin & Katrina Salley
Recognizing the Need • No common definition of information literacy • No official set of student learning outcomes • Lack of instruction and assignments on information literacy skills in Education courses • Need for information literacy skills to be embedded within each major’s curriculum
Goals for Information Literacy SLOs • Create a shared definition • Outline information literacy skills currently being taught and that need to be taught • Create a logical progression for skill scaffolding • Design outcomes for a pilot program that can be applied across all disciplines
Steps for Creating IL SLOs Our shared definition: Foundational to lifelong learning, information literacy is a set of skills that equip a person to critically engage with a constantly changing information environment. Information literacy focuses on finding, evaluating, interpreting, managing, and ethically using information to answer questions and develop new ones.
Steps for Creating IL SLOs • Five general SLOs • Discovery, evaluation, interpretation, application, and ethical use • Academic levels • Emerging, developed, proficient, advanced • Specific language for each level • Final document
IL Integration with School of Education • Met with School of Education’s Teacher/Leader Committee • Decision to integrate information literacy skills into School of Education courses • Need for assessments of information literacy skills • Points of assessment
IL Integration with School of Education • Determined required courses • Examined course assignments • Provided librarian instruction • Discussed assessment options
IL Integration with School of Education • Drafted a proposal for information literacy integration with the School of Education • Timeline • Student learning outcomes • List of Education courses for instruction and assessment • Types of instruction and assessments
IL Integration with School of Education • Met with School of Education and discussed proposal • Education students are not being taught information literacy skills in upper level courses • Ideas for existing and new assignments where information literacy skills can be incorporated
Next Steps: School of Education • Obtain assignments in upper-level Education courses • Collaborate with faculty on assignments and instruction • Create lessons and formative assessments
Next Steps: Across Campus • Gather suggested resources/activities for each SLO • Create a summative assessment linked to SLOs • Begin curriculum mapping in other departments
Any Questions? Katrina Salley (katrina.salley@asbury.edu) Amy Bessin (amy.bessin@asbury.edu) Link to our Faculty Services LibGuide: http://asbury.libguides.com/facserv/researchinstruction