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- English
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Library Assessment in Higher Education
About This Book
Written specifically to address the library's role in education, this book provides guidance on performing assessment at academic institutions that will serve to improve teaching effectiveness and prove your library's impact on student learning outcomesâand thereby demonstrate your library's value. Academic libraries are increasingly being asked to demonstrate their value as one of many units on campus, but determining the outcomes of an academic library within the context of its collegiate setting is challenging. This book explains and clarifies the practice of assessment in academic institutions, enabling library managers to better understand and explain the impact of the library on student learning outcomes, teaching effectiveness, and research productivity. Providing essential information for all college and university librarians, this volume discusses and summarizes the outcomes of research that has been conducted to investigate assessment within the context of higher education. This updated second edition incorporates additional research, examines new trends, and covers groundbreaking advances in digital assessment tools as well as the changes in the amount and forms of data utilized in the assessment process. The chapters address assessment from a campus setting and present data that demonstrate the value of the library within that setting in terms of learning, research, and overall impact. In sum, the book presents librarians with up-to-date, practical guidelines for planning and conducting assessment.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1âIntroduction
- Chapter 2âMission of the College or University
- Chapter 3âModel of the Student Educational Process
- Chapter 4âAssessment of Student Learning Outcomes
- Chapter 5âAssessment of the Library's Contribution to Student Learning Outcomes
- Chapter 6âInstitutional Assessment of Teaching Effectiveness
- Chapter 7âAssessment of the Library's Impact on Teaching Effectiveness
- Chapter 8âInstitutional Assessment of the Research Environment
- Chapter 9âAssessment of the Library's Impact on the Research Environment
- Chapter 10âThe Library's Impact in Other Areas
- Chapter 11âPlanning Assessment
- Chapter 12âImplementing Assessment
- Appendix: Outcomes Questions for Practitioners
- Index