Information Literacy is now an Institutional Learning Outcome and PC library faculty are here to help you implement and assess student learning for this incredibly important outcome.
If you are interested in assessing your students' ability to seek information, evaluate that information, and use it ethically and legally, we are interested in collaborating at any stage of the learning process in order to create meaningful assessment opportunities. Together we can:
Whether assessing individual assignments or scaffolded learning across a degree pathway, consult with your PC library faculty to create effective assessment of information literacy for students in your program. To discuss opportunities for assessment partnerships, please contact Library Instruction Coordinator Kali Van Nimwegen.
Information Literacy empowers students to seek, evaluate, use and create information effectively to achieve their personal, social, educational and occupational goals. Students will develop the skills to proactively seek out relevant information, critically evaluate its reliability and significance, appropriately apply it, and ethically cite it in order to achieve specific goals. Students must make decisions regarding synthesizing information from a variety of sources and utilize it effectively to make an argument or solve a problem.
Students will seek information, evaluate its accuracy, reliability, and significance, and use it appropriately and ethically to achieve a goal.
Research assignment, essay, speech or debate, source authority evaluation, search statement construction, information evaluation, critical reading exercise, research journal, annotated bibliography, copyright fair use application, or quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing exercise.
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Dimensions |
Mastery (4) |
Proficiency (3) |
Developing (2) |
Emerging (1) |
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Seeking Information |
Uses advanced search strategies or techniques to gather information from multiple appropriate systems, collections, applications, or other resources. The information gathered incorporates a diverse range of perspectives or sources to meet the requirements of the specific research need or assignment. |
Uses search strategies or techniques to gather information from appropriate systems, collections, applications, or other resources. The information gathered meets the requirements of the specific research need or assignment. |
Uses very basic search strategies or techniques to gather some information from one or only a few appropriate systems, collections, applications, or other resources. The information gathered does not fully address the requirements of the specific research need or assignment. |
Unable to effectively gather information from appropriate systems, collections, applications, or other resources. Any information gathered does not address the requirements of the specific research need or assignment. |
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Evaluation of Information |
Consistently evaluates information for quality, accuracy, and credibility, as well as its appropriateness based upon the accepted standards of a particular discipline or assignment. This includes the ability to identify biases, propaganda, and the misuse or misapplication of information. |
Evaluates information for quality, accuracy, and credibility, as well as its appropriateness based upon the accepted standards of a particular discipline or assignment. Generally able to identify biases, propaganda, and the misuse or misapplication of information. |
An evaluation of the quality, accuracy, and credibility of some sources is present, but lacks clarity or depth. Sources are evaluated for appropriateness based upon an unclear understanding of the accepted standards of a particular discipline or of the assignment in question. |
Unable to determine the quality, accuracy, or credibility of information and uses inappropriate or irrelevant sources. No evaluation of the appropriateness of a source based upon the accepted standards of a particular discipline or the assignment in question. |
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Ethical and Legal Use of Information |
Demonstrates a full understanding of ethical and legal restrictions on the use of various types of information (published, confidential, and/or proprietary). Always uses information within context, uses citations and references, and paraphrases, summarizes, and quotes correctly. |
Demonstrates a full understanding of ethical and legal restrictions on the use of various types of information (published, confidential, and/or proprietary). Generally uses information within context, uses citations and references, and paraphrases, summarizes, and quotes correctly. |
Demonstrates some understanding of ethical and legal restrictions on the use of various types of information (published, confidential, and/or proprietary). Inconsistently uses information within context, uses citations and references, or sometimes paraphrases, summarizes, or quotes incorrectly. |
Demonstrates a lack of understanding of ethical and legal restrictions on the use of various types of information (published, confidential, and/or proprietary). Unable to correctly use information within context, use citations and references, and unable to successfully paraphrase, summarize, or quote correctly. |