Academic librarians are no strangers to assessment, but figuring out how to implement authentic assessment can be tricky. We all want our instruction to help students, but how do we know if they are actually learning? Better yet, how can we make this process enjoyable for both the educators (that’s us!) and the students? This webcast will discuss the importance of designing authentic learning activities tied to information literacy learning outcomes.
The presenter will highlight a number of instructional technologies that provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate learning while engaging in higher-order skills such as critical thinking, synthesis, and analysis of information. Webcast participants will engage in analysis of several tech tools and assessment techniques for use in varied instructional scenarios, including one-time class sessions, trainings, and workshops. Most of the techniques discussed will be applicable for assessing students both in-person and online. Each participant will receive an instructional technologies evaluation form that can be used to analyze the technologies highlighted in the session for use in their own teaching. This interactive webcast will share successful and easy to implement authentic assessment techniques and tools that will have students showing off their skills in no time.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will describe the characteristics of authentic assessment in order to successfully measure students’ information literacy skills.
- Participants will compare and contrast instructional technologies in order to determine their usefulness for measuring student learning.
- Participants will discuss strategies for engaging students in order to maximize participation levels in library instruction sessions.
Presenter: Melissa Mallon, Director of Peabody Education Library/Director of Instruction & Liaison Services, Vanderbilt University
This program will immediately be followed by a panel discussion at 3:30 p.m..
Panelists: Leslin Charles, Instructional Design Librarian - Rutgers University Libraries; and
John T. Oliver- is the Information Literacy Librarian at The College of New Jersey.
Participation: 1:45 registration
2:00 p.m. Webcast
3:30 p.m. panelists followed by short Q & A.
You may register for this event by logging into the NJLA CUS/ACRL-NJ website, and clicking the tab labeled 'Register' associated with this event (if you are not logged in you will not see the Registration Tab). Don't have an account on our website? You can register for an account here - http://cus.njla.org/user/register. If you have problems with the registration process, please email oshead@mail.montclair.edu.
Parking will be available in the lot behind the Gymnasium on College Avenue and in the Parking Deck next to the library. Because it is a group event, no individual passes will be necessary.
