The Rocky Road to Assessment: The Creation of an Assessment Tool for an Information Literacy Credit Course

Abstract

The article discusses the online assessment survey developed by the Sims Memorial Library Reference Department Instruction Team to measure student learning outcomes of students enrolled in an eight-week one-credit hour freshman level course.  The authors, who are instructors of the course, examine the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the pre- and post-test survey instrument and discuss the lessons learned from undergoing this process.