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Assessment instruments

InfoComp Programs in California
-> at the CSUs
-> at the community colleges

If your instruction program has a Web presence, and I haven't included it, please let me know. Thanks! tosmalle@cabrillo.edu

 

ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries) --Standards and Guidelines -- Scroll down for Information Literacy and Instruction section.

Improving Library Services for Basic Skills Students and Courses: Sabbatical Report, Spring 2007 by Bonnie Gratch Lindauer, Rosenberg Library, City College of San Francisco, 20 August 2007. This report summarizes a literature review, presents the results of a survey of California community college librarians regarding basic skills services, and present specific recommendations to improve outreach and service.

Checklist of Information Competencies for College Students
Librarians from California State University libraries and from the California community colleges have teamed up to create A Checklist of Information Competencies for College Students, with skills broken down by lower division and upper division. The Checklist provides guidelines for common understanding of the information competencies students should master during their college years. Download the Checklist in Word or as a pdf file.

CSUs Information Competence Initiative || Integration of Learning Outcomes

  • CSU Bakersfield -Their Library Courses page
  • CSU Hayward has information competency as a required class linked to a freshman learning community (from a fall 2004 survey, by Ilene Rockman)
  • CSU Monterey Bay has a Technology Information University Learning Requirement, that includes information literacy (currently, part of CST 101)
  • CSU Sacramento has information competency as a required part of a communications course (Rockman survey)
  • SFSU has an Information Competency requirement -- OASIS.

Community Colleges

Information Competency Graduation Requirement Programs: A Survey of Methods by Shawna Hellenius. Fall 2006 sabbatical project; report finished April 2007.

Statewide Academic Senate of the California Community Colleges Fall 2006 Resolution 9.03 (in Word): Reaffirm the Need for Information Competency, Shaaron Vogel, Butte College, Executive Committee

The Resolves are as follows:

  • Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges reaffirm its support for information competency for associates degrees;
  • Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges conduct a survey of the certificate and degree programs in California community colleges to determine which information competency requirements have been implemented by which colleges; and
  • Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges work with local senates to encourage more colleges to require information competency for associate degrees and certificates.
  • MSC Disposition: Local Senates
    Assigned: Curriculum Committee

Syllabi from Community Colleges that have Information Competency courses: || City College of San Francisco  || Cabrillo College || Diablo Valley College || Glendale College || Mission College || Santa Rosa Junior College || Taft College

Information Competency instruction programs at CCCs. College names in red have information competency requirements. College names in green are close to having an information competency requirement. Information taken from Bonnie Gratch-Lindauer's tables 12/04 -- Word; pdf; NOTE: email addresses and other contact information is given on Bonnie's tables, not on this Web page.

From the Academic Senate of the California Community Colleges Information Competency: Challenges and Strategies for Development -- by the Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee and Library Liaisons. Adopted at the Faculty Senate Fall 2002 Plenary Session
 From the Intersegmental Committee of the Academic Senates for the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California Academic Literacy: A Statement of Competencies Expected of Students Entering California's Public Colleges and Universities, issued Spring 2002. Discusses information and technology competencies. See pp. 30-33.
Articulation

Informal Survey of Information Competency Graduation Requirements at California Community Colleges (last rev. 12/9/03), compiled by Fred Brose (Word doc) || Number of students at colleges with IC requirement, or plans for such (compiled 12/03)(Excel file)

Other States
Illinois State University Foundations of Inquiry, part of General Ed
James Madison University -- Information Technology Competency
Messiah College Information Literacy Program, part of Gen Ed curriculum
New York Guidelines for the Approval of State University General Education Requirement Courses (pdf)   Information Management is a SUNY GE requirement. Scroll to page 6 of this pdf document for Information Management requirement.
    SUNY Ulster Information Literacy
    Library Courses for Credit -- SUNY and Beyond
Tacoma Community College Instruction/Information Technology Grid

Assessment Efforts

Windward Community College in Hawaii has a Computer & Information Literacy (CIL) Associate of Arts Degree Requirement

Does it make a difference to have credentialed school librarians in the high schools? Yes! Published study that shows that students from high schools with librarians do better in college than students from high schools without librarians; chart illustrating student achievement differences.

Lists of Competencies; also, Position Papers See also ACRL Standards and Outcomes posted above
Council of Chief Librarians California Community Colleges (Resolution on Information Competency, May 1998)
Information Competency Documents (Library Advisory Committee, California Community College Chancellor's Office Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Information Competency; 1999 and earlier -- in reverse chronological order )
Information Competency Plan for the California Community Colleges (Gavilan Report, August 1998)
Information Competency Project California State University, Dominguez Hills-University Library (to develop a comprehensive model list of information Competence Skills for high school and community college students)
Information Literacy Competencies (University of Massachusetts Information Literacy Project) June 10, 1997
List of Core Competencies (CSU Information Competence Project)

General Resources
Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy from South Florida University
Information Literacy on the WWW from Florida International Universities

About the Information Competency initiative that went to the Board of Governors (BOG) of the California Community Colleges Title 5 language to make Information Competency a requirement for an AA or AS degree in the California Community Colleges was on the Consent Agenda (see Item 11) for the September 2002 meeting of the Board of Governors (BOG). Just prior to the meeting, the item was pulled -- the Department of Finance declared it was an unfunded mandate.


"Core" Documents for California Efforts -- Major steps that led to adoption of the Academic Senate Resolution on Information Competency The Information Competency resolution that passed at the Academic Senate's Spring 2001 Plenary Session.|| Information Competency Plan for the California Community Colleges -- The Gavilan Report (1998) || Information Competency in the California Community Colleges by the Senate's Counseling and Library Faculty Issues Committee (1998) || Projects Funded for Library and Learning Resources Programs 1997-2000

Chronology, from Friedrich (Fred) Brose Implementing the Information Competency Graduation Requirement in California Community Colleges: A Chronology of Selected Sources (pdf file; last updated 10/03)

Topsy N. Smalley || tosmalle@cabrillo.edu || 831.479.6552
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