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Title: Library Instruction Assessment of First Year Undergraduates at a Small College Library


1
Library Instruction Assessment of First Year
Undergraduates at a Small College Library
  • Patricia M. Duck
  • Evan Cornell
  • University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
  • September 28, 2004

2
Who We Are
  • Small regional campus library
  • Part of the University of Pittsburgh Library
    System
  • About 1900 undergraduate students
  • 70 commuter, 30 resident
  • 20 majors

3
Why we did an outcomes assessment study
  • Previous history of assessment
  • Campus evaluation efforts
  • Response to a new environment
  • How (or if) library users change as a result of
    their contact with the library and its
    instructional program

4
How we did it
  • Picked a study group Freshman Seminar
  • 181 captive students
  • Developed pre and posttest based on the Daniel
    Library at The Citadel (see Hernons An Action
    Plan for Outcomes Assessment)
  • Involved psych dept., seminar faculty and senior
    capstone students

5
Pretest and Posttest 12 questions
  • Action questions
  • find a book in the library
  • find a journal article in the digital library
  • Instructional questions
  • did you receive instruction how many times?
  • Opinion questions
  • do you agree?

6
Sample Pretest Form
7
Two instructional sessions
  • Overview of the library
  • Introduction to local reference books and LC
    system
  • How to search Pittcat (library catalog)
  • Discussion of the right vocabulary
  • Comparison of results searching databases in the
    Digital Library vs Internet
  • Evaluation of internet resources

8
Pittcat Screen sgambling
9
Pitt Digital Library Screen
10
Crunching the numbers
  • Manual tabulation
  • Access database
  • Report delivered to psych students
  • Data input and run through SPSS
  • Only 71 (out of 181) were usable

11
Question 1 Find a book
12
Question 2 Find an article
13
Questions 3-9 Results in Percentages
14
Question 10 Everything is on the Web
15
Question 11 Examine credentials
16
Question 12 Document information
17
Statistical Results for Question 1 2
18
Problems Encountered
  • Explaining the pretest and posttest
  • Completing the pretest and posttest
  • Plagiarism
  • Coding of surveys
  • Lack of time for focus groups

19
The Next Step
  • Re-do the survey with specific instructions
  • Revise coding
  • Have focus groups
  • Library Experiences at UPG

20
Thank you for your attention! Dr. Pat
Duck Millstein Library University of Pittsburgh
at Greensburg 1150 Mt Pleasant Rd. Greensburg PA
15601 724- 836- 9689 pmd1_at_pitt.edu
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