faculty toolbox for information literacy
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Faculty Toolbox for Information Literacy. What is Information Literacy?. How do we know if students are information literate? What are students' entry skills upon admission to the university, and is there a significant change in skill levels from the freshman year to graduation? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Faculty Toolbox forInformation Literacy
What is Information Literacy? How do we know if students are
information literate?
What are students' entry skills upon admission to the university, and is there a significant change in skill levels from the freshman year to graduation?
How does the library contribute to information literacy?
Does information literacy make a difference to students’ academic success and retention?
Why Incorporate Information Literacy Into Your Classes?
Assessment Requirements at the University of Pittsburgh
Middle States Commission on Higher Education
Other Assessment Agencies For example: ABET
Assessment Requirements at the University of Pittsburgh
Graduates of the University of Pittsburgh will be able to:
Visit the Provost Web site: www.pitt.edu
/~provost/requirements.html
“Gather and evaluate information effectively and appropriately.”
Middle States Commission on Higher Education
Several skills, collectively referred to as “information literacy,” apply to all disciplines in an institution’s curricula.
These skills relate to a student’s competency in acquiring and processing information in the search for understanding.
Determine the nature and extent of needed information; Access information effectively and efficiently; Evaluate critically the sources and content of information; Incorporate selected information in the learner’s
knowledge base and value system; Use information effectively to accomplish a specific
purpose; Understand the economic, legal and social issues
surrounding the use of information.
Middle States Commission on Higher Education
These skills include the ability to:
Other Assessment Agencies
Visit the ABET Web site:
www.abet.org/assessment.shtml
How to Incorporate Information Literacy Skills
Develop
Implement
AssessInformation
Literacy Plan
Where Do You Start?
Visit the ULS Information Literacy Web site
Explore the ULS Online Tutorials
Investigate the SAILS Test
Contact a ULS Librarian
Where Do You Start?
Visit the ULS Information
Literacy site:
www.library.pitt.edu/services/classes/
infoliteracy/
Where Do You Start?
Explore our Online Tutorials!
www.library.pitt.edu/services/classes/
infoliteracy/teaching.html
SAILS is used by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).
Project SAILS is based on ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.
This Web-based tool allows librarians, in collaboration with faculty, to document information literacy skill levels for groups of students and to pinpoint areas for improvement.
Where Do You Start?
Forty-five questions from a randomly generated list of hundreds of questions.
Takes approximately thirty minutes to complete.
Answers are collected, scores and reports can be generated by class, department or school.
SAILS Questions
SAILS Sample Questions
SAILS Sample Questions
Contact a ULS Librarian
BradfordMarietta [email protected]
OaklandMarian [email protected]
GreensburgJacob [email protected]
JohnstownMelissa [email protected]
TitusvillePatrick [email protected]
Regional Campuses
Bradford
The University Library System (ULS)Serving information literacy needs on all five campuses
Johnstown
Greensburg
TitusvilleOakland