Don’t Use a Hammer When You Need a Screwdriver: How to Use the Right Tools to Create Assessment That Matters
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Date
2016
Authors
Zeidman-Karpinski, Annie
Turnbow, Dominique
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Communications in Information Literacy
Abstract
Instruction librarians want clear data showing the effectiveness of our workshops as a way
of demonstrating our value in education. This article uses instructional design approaches to
show how to make specific changes when writing and measuring our learning outcomes to
capture what we are doing in our sessions. Unlike instructors with classes that develop over
several months, we are faced with unique challenges when conducting one-shot instruction
sessions. By focusing our attention on student satisfaction and learning, we see ways to
improve those sessions for everyone involved. In this essay, we provide examples and
discuss how to write effective learning outcomes to answer specific questions about learner
satisfaction and what the participants learned. In addition, we suggest ways to reform the
evaluation and assessment questions that we use to reinforce our lessons. These methods
can be used in both online and face-to-face environments.
Description
20 pages
Keywords
Assessment, Information literacy, Media literacy, Digital literacy, Learning outcomes, Learning objectives, Kirkpatrick, ABCD Model, One-shot sessions, Lickert scales, Workshops
Citation
Turnbow, D., & Zeidman-Karpinski, A. (2016). Don’t Use a Hammer When You Need a Screwdriver: How to Use the Right Tools to Create Assessment That Matters. Communications In Information Literacy, 10(2).