Ashley Till Portfolio Year 2021-2022

• The students will be given a pre-test at the beginning of library instruction class and a post-test at the end of each library instruction.
  • The purpose of the tests are to compare the students; performance for a pre-post survey for SACS reporting.
  • The pre-test is intended to obtain information about the students information seeking knowledge and skills prior to a library instruction class.
  • This information is necessary for targeted instruction;
  • The effects of this pretest will help to recognize areas of student strengths and target are of student weaknesses.
  • The post-test will measure the knowledge that the students have gained from the library orientation session.
• The student will be given a brainstorming map/mind map tool can help the students in their assignment to think in a more critical way and improve their problem solving ability at the same time.
  • The brainstorming assignment will help the the students to generate creative thinking or ideas for logical structure/hierarchy thought for their research papers plan of action.
• The students will be given a KWL Chart Activity which is a graphic organizer that helps students organize information. KWL stands for "what you know/what you need to know/what you learned:"
  • This KWL assignment is designed for the student to exercise their research skills which will help them develop and to help the students learn more about their topic;
  • This activity will help guide the students though a three-step process to activate background knowledge, develop a purpose of the of the topic of what they are leaning about and summarize the information.

Pre-Test Library Skills Assessment

Circle the most appropriate response

1.  Which of the following search tools could you use to find a book that is shelved in the Miller F. Whittaker Library?

• The library's online catalog

• Google

• ARTstor

• Any of the above

2. Which of the following searches in the library catalog online will find the MOST books?

• Orangeburg Massacre

• Orangeburg Massacre AND Cleveland Sellers

• Orangeburg Massacre OR Cleveland Sellers

• None of the above

3. Have you previously attended a Miller F. Whittaker Library orientation ?

• Yes

• No

• Not sure

4. How would you find articles from Scholarly Journals?

• Miller F. Whittaker Online Databases accessible through the library's website

• Google and Bing

• Magazines and newspapers

• None of the above

5. Information you find on the Internet is usually:

• More reliable than information you find in books

• Written by experts

• Objective and unbiased

• None of the above

6. An article citation usually includes:

• Author, title of the article, title of the journal, and date of publication

• The full-text of the article online

• The definitions of key terms in the article

• All of the above

Post-Test Library Skills Assessment

Circle the most appropriate response

1.  Which of the following search tools could you use to find a book that is shelved in the Miller F. Whittaker Library?

• The library's online catalog

• Google

• ARTstor

• Any of the above

2. Which of the following searches in the library catalog online will find the MOST books?

• Orangeburg Massacre

• Orangeburg Massacre AND Cleveland Sellers

• Orangeburg Massacre OR Cleveland Sellers

• None of the above

3. Have you previously attended a Miller F. Whittaker Library orientation ?

• Yes

• No

• Not sure

4. How would you find articles from Scholarly Journals?

• Miller F. Whittaker Online Databases accessible through the library's website

• Google and Bing

• Magazines and newspapers

• None of the above

5. Information you find on the Internet is usually:

• More reliable than information you find in books

• Written by experts

• Objective and unbiased

• None of the above

6. An article citation usually includes:

• Author, title of the article, title of the journal, and date of publication

• The full-text of the article online

• The definitions of key terms in the article

• All of the above