Information Literacy Instruction and Assessment in a Community College: A Collaborative Design

ABSTRACT

This article describes practical steps taken in the planning of an integrated information literacy instruction linked to a course assignment for community health majors at Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York. The library sessions integrated the Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and were based on faculty-librarian collaboration. A course outline was designed to support a step by step course project. Tools to collect evidence of student learning were designed and adjustments to the course plan and activities were made based on those assessments. Suggestions for using these tools in an iterative design process are made.

KEYWORDS:

• Information literacy
• assessment
• librarians
• community college
• guidepost
• framework

Acknowledgment

The author acknowledges the support, vision, and guidance of his loving wife Adriana.