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Information Literacy Assessment Material
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The Association of College and Research Libraries, the professional
organization for academic librarians in the United States, has developed a
complete set of
Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. The Minneapolis
Community & Technical College Information Literacy program was designed in
1998 using the ACRL standards as guidelines. In April, 2001 the ACRL
Instruction Section Task Force updated the standards in a document entitled,
Objectives for Information Literacy Instruction: A Model Statement for Academic Librarians. This document
was originally published in College & Research Libraries News, (April, 2001) vol. 62, no. 4. The Competency
Standards are designed to be used in discussions with administrators and
academic departments; they suggest institutional goals or performance outcomes.
The Instruction Section Objectives provide terminal objectives, those that
"break down the overall objectives [the Competency Standards' 'Outcomes'] into
specific discrete measurable results."
Objectives for Information Literacy Instruction: A Model Statement for Academic Librarians provides a set of five Competency Standards, each of which are
subdivided into Performance Indicators and Outcomes. The Information Studies
faculty of Minneapolis Community & Technical College have mapped these
Competency Standards, Performance Indicators, and Outcomes onto the Syllabus,
Mid-Term Examination, and Final Competency Examination of our INFS 1000:
Information Literacy & Research Skills course. The department faculty use
the standards to assess student success and to monitor faculty instruction to
make sure that the appropriate material is being covered in each course
section. Successful completion, or test-out through credit-by-examination, is a
graduation requirement of all students seeking the liberal arts transfer
Associate of Arts degree. Students must complete INFS 1000 within their first
24 college level credits. English Composition 1 must also be taken within the
first 24 college level credits.
Please go to our Information Literacy and Research Skills Course Page
to get more details on this 1 lab credit course (equivalent to 2 lecture credits). Feel free to contact Tom Eland, instructor
and department coordinator at thomas.eland@minneapolis.edu for more
information.
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Program Assessment Reports
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Documents with ACRL
Competencies, Performance Indicators, and Outcomes
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Completed Student Competency Exams
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