Lets Get It Started

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Lets Get It Started ( Stopped)

• presented by
• Megan Lowe Carita Alexander

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Introduction
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Background
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Question

• Are Start/Stop Essays useful as an assessment
  tool for library instruction?

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Study Design
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Results
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Results
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Results
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Results

• Procrastinating ranks at the top, followed by
  relying on web sources
• Apparently, procrastinating has a little identity
  problem
• procastinating
• progastinating
• procasting
• procastanating

• procrasnate
• prograstinating
• procrasinate
• procrastonating

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Results
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Conclusion
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Recommendation

• The start/stop essay would be useful for an
  instructor seeking to
• -understand their students level of knowledge
• -use a different form of assessment.

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Resources

• Flaspohler, M. (2003). Information literacy
  program One small college takes the plunge.
  Reference Services Review, 31(2) 129-141.
• Lowe, M. (2006, Fall.). The Start/Stop essay in
  instruction and information literacy at
  University of Louisiana at Monroe. Louisiana
  Libraries, 69 (2)  7-11.

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Thanks!

• Please feel free to contact me via email at
  lowe_at_ulm.edu!