Cal Maritime's limited enrollment size and curriculum structure provide a unique opportunity to provide effective, uniform information fluency instruction to all students. To meet this goal, strong assessment practices are essential.
The Association of College and Research Libraries Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education are used as a benchmark for all of our internal assessment practices.
Currently, our Information Fluency Program uses the following methods of program assessment:
Curriculum mapping to determine when and where students receive instruction addressing ACRL IL standards and their corresponding learning outcomes
Annual pre/post surveys designed to gauge the information fluency skills of freshmen in LIB100
Rubric-based assessment of samples of upper division student work
Feedback
"Using online databases through the Cal Maritime library website made it a lot easier for me to find reliable information."
LIB100 student
"The resources taught in this course are going to assist me throughout the remainder of my college career."
LIB100 student
"The greatest skill I learned from this class was the ability to sift through massive amounts of information and pick out the bits of information that were of greatest use to me."
LIB100 student
"The library session opened up many avenues for students to explore and use."
Cal Maritime instructor
"The librarian did an excellent job tailoring the presentation to the course project. Very relevant, informative presentation!"
Cal Maritime instructor
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