Register now for the preconference Assessing and Communicating Library Contributions to Student Learning and Success through Action Research to be held Wednesday, March 22 – 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at the ACRL 2017 conference in Baltimore, MD.
Description:
Higher education institutions of all types are facing intensified attention to assessment and accountability issues. Academic libraries are increasingly connecting with colleagues and campus stakeholders to design and implement assessment that documents their contributions to institutional priorities. In this day-long workshop on strategic and sustainable assessment, participants will identify institutional priorities and campus partners, design an assessment project grounded in action research, and prepare a plan for communicating the project results. This workshop is based on the highly successful ACRL Assessment in Action program curriculum.
Learning outcomes:
- Apply action research as a means to designing robust assessment plans, practices, and processes.
- Implement assessment practices that document the impact of libraries on student learning, academic programs and activities, and institutional initiatives.
- Collaborate with key campus partners to plan and conduct assessment that aligns library outcomes with institutional initiatives, priorities, and assessment activities
- Use the results of assessment and action research to foster support for library contributions to student learning and success.
Presenters: Karen Brown, Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University; Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Coordinator for Information Literacy and Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Melanie Sellar, Lecturer at San José State University’s School of Information and Senior Instructional Designer at Loyola Marymount University’s School of Education; Brandy Whitlock, Professor and Instruction Librarian at Anne Arundel Community College
Preconference Registration Fees
ALA Member $190
Nonmember $230
Full-time Library School Student $80
Retired ALA Member $80
Nonsalaried/unemployed ALA Member $80
For more information about this and other preconferences at ACRL 2017, see http://conference.acrl.org/conference-content/preconferences/
