Instructional Designer. Librarian. Writer.
This is a rough transcript of the plenary session presented to the California Academic & Research Libraries conference on April 15, 2018. The full paper will be published in the conference proceedings. All errors, typos, and misunderstandings are my own and do not represent the views of anyone else, including my past, present, and future… Continue reading Who Succeeds in Higher Education? Questioning the Connection Between Academic Libraries & Student Success.
March 5, 2018 -- Revised and updated from the original post on November 10, 2017. A slide deck from EDUCAUSE made the rounds on Twitter last week, with many folks expressing shock about libraries & their involvement (complicity) in learning analytics efforts on higher education campuses. But this isn't new. Academic librarians have been… Continue reading Libraries & learning analytics: A brief history.
This post corresponds with my presentation at the Canadian Library Assessment Workshop on Friday, October 27, 2017 in Victoria, British Columbia. Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Stx0qmaKZRM4SIGqoH9N3dqUMzNMCmHzJfuX8YYhr7M/edit?usp=sharing Scenario - Leave No Trace You are the Assessment Librarian at a large university with a team of a dozen instruction librarians. Everyone is excited to embark on a new peer… Continue reading Observe, Reflect, Learn: Developing a Peer Teaching Observation Program in Your Library
Somehow I had been blissfully unaware of Respondus Lockdown Browser until last week, when several students came to the library asking if we had this software available on our computers. If you’re not familiar with this product, Respondus is one of several LMS-integrated cheating-prevention tools. In simple terms, it shuts down a student’s Internet browser… Continue reading Have we confused surveillance with assessment of student learning?
My job title is Pedagogy and Assessment Librarian. I took a course called “Assessment” in my LIS graduate program. I just finished writing a 10-page year-end assessment report which I submitted to our University Assessment Director (and he looooved it). The point is, I should know a lot about assessment. I don’t. I’m still figuring… Continue reading Information literacy assessment. (Day 88/100)
Today I humble-bragged about our instruction department working together to assess over 230 samples of student work from 30 sections of first-year English composition. So, how many steps did it take to get to this moment? And what comes next? Let’s take a look. I’ll give a step-by-step explanation of our assessment process, leaving out… Continue reading Information literacy assessment in 25 easy steps.
This isn’t what I wanted to write about. When I envisioned my blog post that would sum up my experience at ACRL2017 in Baltimore, I was hoping to write about things like sitting front row for Roxane Gay’s keynote, having lunch with my mentee, attending sessions about the devaluing of feminized labor and the problems… Continue reading I want your fight: On shame and #ACRL2017
Last Friday, I presented a six-minute lightning talk at the Library Assessments Workshop hosted by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. Much to my supervisor's chagrin, I was frantically putting together my slides and practicing my talk at the end of the day on Thursday. Some of the disjointed brainstorming notes looked like this: Don't… Continue reading Resisting analytics in a correlation-crazy world.
I started out my last day of the Library Assessment Conference sharing biscuits, poached eggs, and strong coffee with Maoria Kirker, Instructional Services and Assessment Librarian at George Mason University, and fellow alum of the 2013 ACRL Immersion Teacher Track program in Seattle, Washington, where we met. I admire Maoria for lots of reasons: she's… Continue reading Library Assessment Conference 2016, the day after: Next steps
Brian Nosek faced multiple accusations of practicing witchcraft and/or being a magician this morning. He invited keynote attendees to informally participate in a couple of well-known perception studies, including the McGurk Effect (in which we tried to discern the vowel sounds we heard or saw in a five-second video clip). He flashed the following image… Continue reading Library Assessment Conference 2016, Day 2: Is it a frog? A horse? Or both?
