2015 Conference Highlights: Bringing it Back to Earth

Each week between now and the 2015 MLA/DLA Conference, we’re highlighting one of the conference sessions sponsored by ACRL MD. The conference will be held from May 6-8 at the Clarion Resort Hotel in Ocean City, MD.  For more information on the conference, please take a look at the conference program (PDF). To register, visit the MLA conference page.

Bringing it Back to Earth: Using Assessment Data to Drive Change
Friday, May 8
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Examine an entire assessment cycle in one hour and learn how to use data to rethink your own instruction! The presenters will discuss their experience using assessment data to design and implement changes to information literacy instruction in a required writing course. Presenters will share the results of the ongoing assessment of those changes. The audience will then participate in a structured activity interpreting sample data to propose changes to a hypothetical instruction program and reflection how they can apply these techniques to their institution.

This program is worth 1 contact hour of continuing education.

Presenters:

Catherine Johnson – Head of Information Literacy Initiatives, University of Baltimore

Natalie Burclaff – Reference and Instruction Librarian, University of Baltimore

Stephen “Mike” Kiel – Reference and Instruction Librarian, University of Baltimore