LYRASIS Polite Debate Society - Information Literacy Assessment: What Works? What Doesn't?

During the last Polite Debate Society, we addressed Information literacy from the teaching perspective... How to teach the Hard Stuff. In part 2 of the series, panelists from the information literacy community will spend 90 minutes discussing key issues in information literacy assessment. The teaching landscape for IL librarians continues to evolve rapidly. Assessment strategies used previously in the traditional classroom environment are challenging, if not impossible to implement in an educational setting where we use both the physical and virtual classroom, where technology dictates our approach to teaching so heavily, and where many deal with the pressure cooker of the "one shot" class. Still others are learning what kinds of assessment strategies are most effective in the semester long credit bearing information literacy course. In our Polite Debate Society session, our panel will review and critique some common assessment strategies, discuss what works and what doesn't in a variety of settings, and share ideas for best practices in information literacy assessment.

Date: July 19th, 2013
Time: 1:00-2:30 ET

Host: Russell Palmer

Panelists:

Annemarie Roscello, Associate Professor at Bergen Community College in Paramus
Andrea G. Stanfield, Information Literacy Coordinator at the University of West Georgia.

For more information and to register, click here.