Assessing one-shot instruction sessions

Sarah Steiner2010 Instruction Forum

Georgia State University Library

Who?All of us!

(But don’t be frightened.)

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What? To assess:

• Student needs• General understanding• Information retention

Not to assess:• Your personal

shortcomings• Your speaking mistakes• Your hairstyle

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Why?

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When?

How?

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Quiz process: Step 1Set 3-4 learning outcomes for your

session.

By the end of this class, you will know how to…

Get help from the library. Locate a book in GIL Find. Identify and locate scholarly research

articles.

Quiz process: Step 2Think about how students could prove their

understanding of those outcomes.

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Quiz process: Step 3

Write your questions.There are samples in Zoomerang. To

view, log in to zoomerang.com• Click “My Surveys”• Click “Manage Folders”• Click “BI Assessment Sample Quiz Questions”

To use quiz bank questions

1. Log in to Zoomerang.2. Click “Copy a previous survey.”3. Choose “Assessment quiz question

bank.”4. Delete, add, or move questions as

you see fit. 5. Limit to 3-4 questions, if you want

the exercise to take 5 minutes.

Some Questions to Choose FromUse GIL Find (the catalog) to search for one book that might be good for your

annotated bibliography. List the book's title and call number. What floor is it on?

ORUse GIL Find to search for the book YOUR RELEVANT BOOK HERE. What is the

book's call number?

Name one of the articles databases that we reviewed today. List the full title. 

List two things that you should look for when determining if an article is scholarly or popular.

Please check all answers that apply. In almost all cases, a scholarly article will... Be lengthy—5 pages or more Have an author or authors who are experts in the subject area (rather than

being reporters) Be written to be of general interest to all readers, everywhere Relate to academic study or research Have a lot of advertisements and glossy photos

Some Questions to Choose From Pt 2

Define "empirical article" (or “peer-review”) in one sentence.

What is the most significant or meaningful thing you have learned during the session? (Feel free to discuss more than one thing, if you like.)

What question(s) remain uppermost in your mind?

Please list one thing that you still don't understand. If you would like a librarian to contact you for help, please include your email address (but remember that your comments will no longer be anonymous).

If you could change something about this session, what would it be?

Quiz process: Step 4 Get your quiz url. Force people to use it. http://research.library.gsu.edu/SWCJ3020

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Other resources NCSU Quick Assessment Survey Reporthttp://www.njcu.edu/Guarini/Feedback/2006-07MinuteSurvey/Info%20Lit%20One%20Minute%20Survey%20Report.pdf One-minute survey from Utah State Uhttp://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=EtnqqCVXqIwou4bMkBb_2fUg_3d_3d Additional survey from Utah State U

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Virginia Tech Instruction Clearinghouse http://www.lib.vt.edu/RIS/clearinghouse/assessments.html