Information Literacy Assessment:LILO and Laulima

Lari-Anne Au, Hawaii Community CollegeMargot Hanson, UH – West Oahu

Information Literacy AssessmentACRL Standards

(Association of College and Research Libraries)

UH LILC history(Libraries Information Literacy Committee)

LILO history(Learning Information Literacy Online)

LILO assessmentLaulima usageLaulima assessment

ACRL StandardsInformation Literacy Competency Standards

for Higher EducationStandards, Performance Indicators &

OutcomesPublished in 2000Updated for various fields of study

Information Literacy in the Disciplineshttp://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/

about/sections/is/projectsacrl/infolitdisciplines/index.cfm

Information Literacy AssessmentDifficult to assessiSkills™ from ETSData and statistics

UH Libraries Information Literacy CommitteeFormed 2003 to address system-wide campus

and library IL goalsLibrarians from 10 UH system campusesShare ideas and resourcesDeveloped online information literacy

tutorial: LILO

Learning Information Literacy OnlineSelf-paced tutorialBased on LOBO source code from NCSUUH LILC updates:

DesignContentInteractive elementsFeedback optionsAssessment

VideoYouTube videosEducation and

library videos & tutorials

Create our own content

LILO AssessmentJournal feature prompts students to answer

questions based on their researchRubrics for each prompt show four levels of

answer (Excellent, Satisfactory, Partial, Incomplete)

Student examplesMapped to ACRL standards & outcomesInstructor/librarian assessment

1. Accreditation, University, and ALA Directives

2. LILO Content

and Questions

3. Student Response

4. Score with Rubrics

5. Response Data to Faculty

Let’s take a look!http://www.hawaii.edu/lilo/0908/eval_web_pu

rpose.php

Laulima usageNew course management system for UH

system http://laulima.hawaii.edu Local implementation of open-source SakaiReplaced WebCT

Laulima RegistrationStudents in official classes have classes

added to their account automaticallyAnyone with an email account can be added

to a course and assigned a roleParticipants log on with their UH username

and password, or their email address and an assigned password

Tests and QuizzesCreate question pools for each moduleDesignate special access restrictionsTests can include graded test questions and

survey questions which are not gradedUse the grading feature to look at results for

individual students and collectively

Laulima AssessmentInformation literacy exams:

Hawaii Community CollegeUH HiloLeeward Community CollegeWindward Community College

Information Literacy at UH Hilo and Hawaii Community CollegeEnglish 100 students attend at least 2 library

sessions during class timeStudents take a pretest and final quizStudents complete modules with quizzes

between sessionsResults of final are a portion of students’

English 100 grade

Mahalo!larianne@hawaii.edu

mdhanson@hawaii.edu