"Librarians have become increasingly involved in assessment
culture while searching for methods to assess information
literacy."
The following WEBSITEs embrace a "pradigm shift
away from evaluation and moving toward the assessment of
student learning."
"Librarians are transitioning from skill-based measurements
of evaluating outcomes to outcomes-based assessments."
believes that evaluation involves assessing the strengths and
weaknesses of programs, policies, personnel, products, and
organizations to prove their effectiveness
these guidelines attempt to "articulate elements of exemplary
information literacy programs for undergraduate students at
four-year and two-year institutions"
Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills
to develop an instrument for programmatic level assessment of
information literacy skills that is valid and thus credible to
university administrators and other academic personnel. "We
envisioned a tool to measure information literacy..."
publishes original measurement research
reports on new measurement instruments
serves as a vehicle for improving educational
measurement applications in a variety of settings
