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Trinity University: In the summer of 2008, Trinity initiated a project for improving information literacy skills for all students. The project was selected and approved based on various assessment results, including responses on the First Year Information Literacy in the Liberal Arts Assessment (FYILLAA). This instrument was designed by librarians, faculty, institutional research staff, and academic technologists from a group of selective liberal arts institutions and was conducted through the Gould Library at Carleton College. The FYILLAA was administered to first year students at Trinity and other similar institutions in the fall and spring of the 2006-2007 academic year. Results indicated that Trinity students lagged behind their peers at similar institutions in information literacy skills and thus a five year plan of workshops and course redevelopment was designed.
The success of the project in achieving its goals is being evaluated by means of the Research Practices Survey (the successor to the FYILLAA), embedded assignments in courses, pre and post comparisons of writing samples from first year and senior students, and sessions for faculty and staff members participating in the project to discuss results with others. During each year of the project, participants are developing documentation of best practices, based on assessment results, for enhancing information literacy throughout the undergraduate and graduate experience.
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