Information Literacy in the FirstYear Experience

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Information Literacy in the First-Year Experience

• Title V Presentation
• Passaic County Community College
• Gregory Fallon
• November 18, 2003

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Project History

• Getting Started Getting the Word Out
• http//www.pccc.edu/library/index.html
• Revamping the First-Year Experience
• Information Literacy at PCCC

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Content Development for Information Literacy

• Info Lit Tutorials on the Library
  Pagehttp//www.pccc.edu/library/evaluating.html
• The Info Lit Exercise
• IL Exercise Fall 2003

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Training of IL Presenters

• The Classroom Presenters
• (and Info Lit Assistants)
• Guidelines for IL Presenters
• Guidelines for IL Presenters

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Information Literacy Research Project

• The Project versus the PaperIL Research Project
  FA 2003
• The Grading Rubric for InstructorsGrading Rubric
  for IL Research Project

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Assessing the Project

• The Librarians Rubric Assessing versus Grading
• Information Literacy Assessment Rubric
• The Project Results How the Students Did
• IL Research Project Assessment Chart.xls

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The Students View

• Survey results
• Are you more likely to use the Library and its
  resources because of this instruction? Spr 03
  a. no (2) b. maybe (36) c. definitely
  (62)How much did you learn from the written
  Library Exercise? Spr 03 a. nothing (3) b.
  some (36) c. a lot (61)How would you rate the
  overall quality of the Information Literacy
  component of COL 102? Spr 03 a. poor (1) b.
  adequate (41) c. very good (57)

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Student Response

• Journal entrieshttp//www.pccc.edu/library/infoli
  t/feedback.html

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The Response fromFaculty and Presenters

• Commentshttp//www.pccc.edu/library/infolit/feed
  back.htmlpresenters Faculty Observer The
  Information Literacy component is one of the most
  enjoyable and informative aspects of the course.
  The information is very valuable for our
  students. It provides them with a wealth of
  knowledge and is a useful resource. Students have
  displayed a genuine interest in this component.
  This is quite evident by their attendance and the
  questions they ask. Students have expressed
  positive feelings in their journals including
  they had no knowledge that PCCC had so much to
  offer. I believe that this part of the course
  provides a true academic quality that legitimizes
  this course as a valuable academic tool.

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Overall Results

• Prior Expectations, Actual Results, and Use of
  Results
• Assessment LRC 5-Column 2002-2003

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Next Steps

• The Information Literacy Goal in Gen Ed
• Information Literacy Goal Gen Ed
• Integration of IL into Gen Ed Courses Librarian/F
  aculty Partnerships
• Integration of IL into Intro CIS

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More Integration Learning Communities The
College Portal

• LC Pairing with Developmental Reading and
  Developmental Writing
• (Research projects on Frederick Douglass)
• LC Pairing with ESLW 001, ESLR 001, ESLG 001, and
  OST (a 12-credit block)
• The First-Year Experience the College Portal

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A New Partnership

• Reaching into Patersons Middle Schools
• Training
• Shared Content Development
• A Web Site

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• This presentation may be accessed at
• http//www.pccc.edu/washington/titlev-f.pps
• Thank you