Assessment

Information Literacy

 

Use numbers for the tutorial and quizzes can be found in the Facts and Stats area.

April 2005

The Kentucky Virtual Library Information Literacy Workgroup is a volunteer committee of librarians and educators working to promote information literacy through the development of tools and resources. One of the freely available tools is the tutorial "How to Do Research" at http://www.kyvl.org/html/tutorial/research/

Given the exponential growth in both the number and variety of information sources, it is imperative that citizens have the skills "to locate, evaluate, and effectively use information for any given need." (ALA Presidential Committee on Information Literacy, found 8/10/04 at http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/whitepapers/presidential.htm.)

To help us evaluate the use of the tutorial, we created a survey to gather input from the instructors teaching courses via KYVU. We sent individual email invitations to the 1,081 KYVU instructors teaching academic courses for Spring 2005. Of the 1,081 invited, 57 instructors responded.

April 2005 Survey Questions - April 2005 Survey Results (Names and Contact Info for Focus Group volunteers have been removed)

Fall 2000

Fall 2000 Assessment of the Tutorial and Appendices

In the Fall of 2000, KYVL with the Information Literacy Work Group hired Paula Dougherty, Ph.D., to conduct an assessment of the Information Literacy Tutorial as hosted on Eduprise's RCDDS course software.

Last Updated: 1/28/02