Archive for category Assessment
Unpacking Assessment
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Lisa Horowitz, Assessment Librarian at MIT Libraries.
As an assessment librarian, I am always looking for different ways to think about assessment. Most librarians aren’t statisticians, and for some, even the word itself, assessment, is daunting in that its meaning is unclear. Additionally, it’s such a broad topic that many [...]
Posted: 27 December, 2011 in Assessment.
Tags: data, evaluation, statistics
Comments: 1
Clickers, or Does Technology Really Cure What Ails You?
ACRLog welcomes a guest post from Cori Strickler, Information Literacy Librarian at Bridgewater College.
During idle times at the reference desk, or when the students are gone for a break, I find myself creating instruction “wish lists” of tools or gadgets that I’d love to have for my sessions. One item that has been on my [...]
Posted: 22 November, 2011 in Assessment, Teaching, Technology Issues.
Tags: clickers, experimentation, library instruction, students
Comments: 3
On Being Valuable: Point-Counterpoint
The POINT: Amy Fry
On Tuesday, September 14, ACRL released Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report by Dr. Megan Oakleaf. The report lays out the current landscape of academic library assessment and seeks to provide strategies for libraries to demonstrate and quantify their value within the context of institutional missions and goals.
Oakleaf [...]
Posted: 17 September, 2010 in ACRL News, Assessment.
Comments: 3
Learning From The Alumni
I came across an interesting piece of news about how some IHEs are just asking their alumni questions – and listening to the answers. The calls are not about hitting the alums up for contributions. The folks in charge of alumni offices are realizing that they need to learn much more about their instituiton’s graduates. [...]
Posted: 10 August, 2010 in Administration/Leadership, Assessment.
Tags: alumni, alumni_offices
Comments: 1
Let’s Not (Just) Do the Numbers
Meredith Farkas has a thoughtful post at Information Wants to be Free on our love of numbers and how little they tell us without context. Less traffic at the reference desk: what does that mean? It could mean that students don’t find the help they get there useful, or that your redesigned website or new [...]
Posted: 26 July, 2010 in Assessment, Information Literacy.
Comments: 4
