Through the Looking Glass: Viewing First-Year Composition Through the Lens of Information Literacy
This paper presents a case study of how librarians can situate themselves as pedagogical partners by bringing their unique information literacy perspective and expertise to the programmatic assessment process. This report resulted from the Thun Library and the Penn State Berks Composition Program�...
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Communications in Information Literacy
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| description | This paper presents a case study of how librarians can situate themselves as pedagogical partners by bringing their unique information literacy perspective and expertise to the programmatic assessment process. This report resulted from the Thun Library and the Penn State Berks Composition Program's collaboration to assess the institution’s first-year composition (FYC) course. From previous programmatic assessments of their students’ work, the faculty had a sense that students struggled with source use in their rhetoric but found it difficult to pinpoint students’ exact source issues. By adapting a rubric theoretically-grounded in the ACRL Framework to deconstruct the concept of source use into four categories, librarians developed a rubric that illuminated source engagement problems on a more granular level than the programmatic assessments conducted without librarian involvement, leading to specific suggestions for addressing issues with student source engagement. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b63b47e0f2b24381a95383f9027050002022-12-22T00:38:24ZengCommunications in Information LiteracyCommunications in Information Literacy1933-59542019-01-0113110.15760/comminfolit.2019.13.1.4Through the Looking Glass: Viewing First-Year Composition Through the Lens of Information LiteracyAlexandria Chisholm0Brett Spencer1Penn State BerksPenn State BerksThis paper presents a case study of how librarians can situate themselves as pedagogical partners by bringing their unique information literacy perspective and expertise to the programmatic assessment process. This report resulted from the Thun Library and the Penn State Berks Composition Program's collaboration to assess the institution’s first-year composition (FYC) course. From previous programmatic assessments of their students’ work, the faculty had a sense that students struggled with source use in their rhetoric but found it difficult to pinpoint students’ exact source issues. By adapting a rubric theoretically-grounded in the ACRL Framework to deconstruct the concept of source use into four categories, librarians developed a rubric that illuminated source engagement problems on a more granular level than the programmatic assessments conducted without librarian involvement, leading to specific suggestions for addressing issues with student source engagement.https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/29382information literacyfirst-year compositionassessmentrubricscollaborationsource engagement |
| spellingShingle | Alexandria Chisholm Brett Spencer Through the Looking Glass: Viewing First-Year Composition Through the Lens of Information Literacy Communications in Information Literacy information literacy first-year composition assessment rubrics collaboration source engagement |
| title | Through the Looking Glass: Viewing First-Year Composition Through the Lens of Information Literacy |
| title_full | Through the Looking Glass: Viewing First-Year Composition Through the Lens of Information Literacy |
| title_fullStr | Through the Looking Glass: Viewing First-Year Composition Through the Lens of Information Literacy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Through the Looking Glass: Viewing First-Year Composition Through the Lens of Information Literacy |
| title_short | Through the Looking Glass: Viewing First-Year Composition Through the Lens of Information Literacy |
| title_sort | through the looking glass viewing first year composition through the lens of information literacy |
| topic | information literacy first-year composition assessment rubrics collaboration source engagement |
| url | https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/29382 |
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