How Digital Library Services Contribute to Undergraduate Learning: An Evaluation of the Understanding Library Impacts Protocol
How Digital Library Services Contribute to Undergraduate Learning: An Evaluation of the Understanding Library Impacts Protocol
by Derek A. Rodriguez (2006)
In: Proceedings 26th Annual Charleston Conference
From the abstract:
The “Understanding Library Impacts†protocol applies qualitative methods to investigate student achievement of learning goals important to the college or university. First, a series of interviews with librarians and teaching faculty allows the researcher/evaluator to understand the diversity of library resources available to students and the learning goals embedded in a given undergraduate curriculum such as English, Engineering, or Nursing at a specific institution. Student interviews using the Critical Incident Technique (CIT) help understand student perceptions of the learning goals associated with the curriculum and the aspects of library services and resources that impact student achievement. The CIT is a well-established qualitative technique for detecting “nuances of quality that are lost in most survey data collection†(Radford, 2006). Second, a language of learning outcomes based on the Revised Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Anderson, 2001) ties student observations regarding library impact to institutional goals for student learning.
Source: Proceedings 26th Annual Charleston Conference (via E-LIS)