Pre-Conference Workshop (Optional)
Brewing up New Flavors of Assessment: Using Student Writing as Artifacts of Learning
Iris Jastram and Heather Tompkins (Carleton College)
Thursday, April 30th, 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center
$115 per person
***Registration for this workshop is now closed***
What can we learn about students' information literacy habits of mind from their written work? As a profession, we've studied the research process in great detail. We know a lot about how students self-report their skills and habits and how well they perform skills tests. But how do these capabilities play out in their everyday academic work of producing a wide variety of writing from across the academic curriculum? Because rubrics allow us to engage in authentic assessment, and because of their flexibility, we developed and honed a rubric as our primary tool to help us reveal the information literacy practices and habits that our students exhibit in their writing. Along the way, we also learned more about our own definitions, expectations, and assumptions about information literacy than we ever expected. For example, the project opened up opportunities for information literacy instruction beyond traditional research-based assignments, provided occasions for deep and sustained conversations across the institution, and helped us clarify the overlap between our expertise and that of our departmental faculty colleagues.
In this workshop participants, individually and in groups, will apply our rubric to a sample of student writing. Together we will explore what we can learn from these artifacts of student learning, and we will discuss the relationships between pedagogy, program development, and assessment. Participants will leave with concrete strategies, tools, and initial action plans that will prepare them adapt Carleton's information literacy rubric and its linked assessment project to their own institutions' information literacy goals.
Participants will:
- Apply Carleton's rubric to samples of student work in order to gain facility and confidence recognizing clues to students' information literacy habits of mind within those students' completed writing.
- Draft a plan to adapt Carleton's rubric to the participants' local contexts.
- Reflect on the intersection between student writing and information literacy in order to explore and discern their own assumptions and praxis.
Payment
Payment can be made by check, Visa or MasterCard.
- Mail or fax (734-561-4527) the LOEX 2015 Pre-Conference Workshop Payment Form.
- To pay with a credit card by phone, call 734-487-2633.
- There is no online payment option for the pre-conference.
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