Proposal: Information Literacy Instruction and Assessment: Summative Assessment - End of Year

Summative assessment measures students retention of skill or how their behavior has been influenced after learning a skill.  There are two proposed summative assessment techniques suggested below. 

Standardized test.  This would be administered at the end of Spring semester in College Writing II courses. Information Literacy Assessment & Advocacy Project (ILAAP) was created to measure information literacy skill retention of freshman and sophomore students.  Similar to Project Outcome, it was created as a free assessment tool that allows libraries to administer this assessment and compare results across like institutions.  Libraries can choose test questions and demographic questions from a set list. All test questions are mapped to ACRL's Framework. 

Citation analysis. This is a much more laborious assessment technique that would be done every other year. This assessment requires a rubric that is created and then applied to a sample of artifacts (student term papers).