Archive for category Assessment
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.
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Assessment is the New Black
I’m teaching a course this semester for the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at Illinois called, “Libraries, Information, and Society.” Like similar courses, it presents an introduction to a number of core concepts for future information professionals, as well as an introduction to professional skills, values, and employment environments. This week, we heard [...]
Posted: 22 April, 2009 in Assessment, Just Thinking, LIS Education.
Comments: 1