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    Degrees of Impact: Analyzing the Effects of Progressive Librarian Course Collaborations on Student Performance
    (College & Research Libraries, 2015-07) Booth, Char; Lowe, M. Sara; Tagge, Natalie; Stone, Sean M.
    The Claremont Colleges Library conducted direct rubric assessment of Pitzer College First-Year Seminar research papers to analyze the impact of diverse levels of librarian course collaborations on information literacy (IL) performance in student writing. Findings indicate that progressive degrees of librarian engagement in IL-related course instruction and/or syllabus and assignment design had an increasingly positive impact on student performance. A secondary indirect analysis of librarian teaching evaluations and self-perceived learning gains by students and faculty showed no correlation to rubric IL scores, suggesting the importance of “authentic” assessment in determining actual learning outcomes. This mixed-methods study presents findings in each area and examines their implications for effective IL course collaborations.
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    Impact of Assignment Prompt on Information Literacy Performance in First-Year Student Writing
    (Elsevier, 2016) Lowe, M. Sara; Stone, Sean M.; Booth, Char; Tagge, Natalie
    This study attempts to quantify the impact of assignment prompts and phased assignment sequencing on first-year student work. Specifically, whether more fully developed and “scaffolded” assignment prompts produced better Information Literacy (IL) in student papers (n=520). The examination of assignment prompts in relation to student IL rubric scores would seem to indicate the conventional wisdom on developing assignment prompts might not have an impact on IL performance.
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    Impacting Information Literacy Learning in First-Year Seminars: A Rubric-Based Evaluation
    (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015-07) Lowe, M. Sara; Booth, Char; Stone, Sean M.; Tagge, Natalie
    The authors conducted a rubric assessment of information literacy (IL) skills in research papers across five undergraduate first-year seminar programs to explore the question “What impact does librarian intervention in first-year courses have on IL performance in student work?” Statistical results indicate that students in courses with greater levels of strategic faculty-librarian collaboration performed significantly better in IL outcomes than those in courses with low collaboration. Intensive librarian course support was not necessary to achieve significant learning gains; these tended to occur when librarians provided initial input into syllabus and assignment design, followed by one or two assignment-focused IL workshops.
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    Integrating an Information Literacy Quiz into the Learning Management System
    (2014) Lowe, M. Sara; Booth, Char; Tagge, Natalie; Stone, Sean M.
    The Claremont Colleges Library developed a Quiz that could be integrated into the consortial learning management software to accompany a local online, open-source IL tutorial. The Quiz is integrated into individual course pages, allowing students to receive a grade for completion and improving buy-in at the faculty and student level. Piloted in nine first-year classes in Fall 2012 then revised and launched in Spring 2013, the Quiz has given the Library valuable assessment data on first-year student IL skills and enhanced the ability of teaching librarians to tailor their instruction to student performance.