Download or read book A Practical Guide to Information Literacy Assessment for Academic Librarians written by Carolyn Radcliff and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information literacy assessment applies to a number of contexts in the higher education arena: institutional curricula, information literacy programs, information literacy courses, course-integrated information literacy instruction, and stand-alone information literacy workshops and online tutorials. This practical guide provides an overview of the assessment process: planning; selection and development of tools; and analysis and reporting of data. An assessment-decision chart helps readers match appropriate assessment tools and strategies with learning outcomes and instructional settings. Assessment tools, organized by type, are accompanied by case studies. Various information literacy standards are referenced, with emphasis given to ACRL's Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.