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Assessing Library Skills: A First Step to Information Literacy
- portal: Libraries and the Academy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 7, Number 1, January 2007
- pp. 25-49
- 10.1353/pla.2007.0002
- Article
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As part of the University of Rhode Island Libraries' "Comprehensive Plan for Information Literacy," a three-credit class in the skills and concepts of information literacy was first offered in the fall of 1999. More than 1,000 undergraduate students have taken the class since that time. A pre-test was given at the beginning of each semester, followed up by a post-test at the end. The pre- and post-test results were analyzed to determine: (1) whether students improved their test scores over the course of the semester, (2) which concepts and skills students mastered, and (3) where the course might need revision and/or improvement. Analysis showed that skills were acquired and/or improved overall.