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Library Instruction Assessment of First Year Undergraduates at a Small College Library

Library Instruction Assessment of First Year Undergraduates at a Small College Library. Patricia M. Duck Evan Cornell University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg September 28, 2004. Who We Are. Small regional campus library Part of the University of Pittsburgh Library System

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Library Instruction Assessment of First Year Undergraduates at a Small College Library

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  1. Library Instruction Assessment of First Year Undergraduates at a Small College Library Patricia M. Duck Evan Cornell University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg September 28, 2004

  2. Who We Are • Small regional campus library • Part of the University of Pittsburgh Library System • About 1900 undergraduate students • 70% commuter, 30% resident • 20 majors

  3. Why we did an outcomes assessment study • Previous history of assessment • Campus evaluation efforts • Response to a new environment • How (or if) library users change as a result of their contact with the library and its instructional program

  4. How we did it • Picked a study group: Freshman Seminar • 181 “captive” students • Developed pre and posttest based on the Daniel Library at The Citadel (see Hernon’s An Action Plan forOutcomes Assessment) • Involved psych dept., seminar faculty and senior capstone students

  5. Pretest and Posttest: 12 questions • “Action” questions: • find a book in the library • find a journal article in the digital library • “Instructional” questions: • did you receive instruction; how many times? • “Opinion” questions: • do you agree?

  6. Sample Pretest Form

  7. Overview of the library Introduction to local reference books and LC system How to search Pittcat (library catalog) Discussion of the “right” vocabulary Comparison of results searching databases in the Digital Library vs Internet Evaluation of internet resources Two instructional sessions

  8. Pittcat Screen s=gambling

  9. Pitt Digital Library Screen

  10. Crunching the numbers • Manual tabulation • Access database • Report delivered to psych students • Data input and run through SPSS • Only 71 (out of 181) were usable

  11. Question 1: Find a book

  12. Question 2: Find an article

  13. Questions 3-9: Results in Percentages

  14. Question 10: Everything is on the Web

  15. Question 11: Examine credentials

  16. Question 12: Document information

  17. Statistical Results for Question 1 & 2

  18. Problems Encountered • Explaining the pretest and posttest • Completing the pretest and posttest • Plagiarism • Coding of surveys • Lack of time for focus groups

  19. The Next Step • Re-do the survey with specific instructions • Revise coding • Have focus groups • Library Experiences at UPG

  20. Thank you for your attention! Dr. Pat Duck Millstein Library University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg 1150 Mt Pleasant Rd. Greensburg PA 15601 724- 836- 9689 pmd1@pitt.edu

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