Brainstorming Questions by Jasmine Spitler

Hodge-podge

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nonexistent

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Anxiety and Exclusion

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Huh?

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Important but annoying

Siloed, scattered

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Challenging!

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Constantly changing

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People do it, but for some folks it’s treated as a chore and not an opportunity

positive

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Inefficiently collected

Inconsistent

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recognized as important, happening really well in some places and haphazardly elsewhere. not coherent institution-wide

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Lost & struggling

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Inconsistent

Nonexistent

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One way street. We pour knowledge in. Would rather have experiential learning

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Random

When is enough and when is too much

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Justify library personnel costs

lvelarde — 2025-06-06 15:13:11 UTC

Haphazard

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Time!

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Can be attached to goals for the “end of year” reporting

showing how we contribute to student learning - or how we need more time with classes

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reflective & curious

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To show student improvement

I hope to use student learning assessment to monitor the effectiveness of my instruction

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Lack of experience implementing assessment, difficulty building in formal assessment into oneshots

shoe-horned quantitative stats

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Give it a go

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Center library instruction in current curriculum review

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Not only can we use assessment to make our instruction better, but we can also use it to advocate for more support from other faculty.

Still learning how to do it, tbh

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Show the value the library has on meeting students’ information needs, both for coursework and for life

Capacity and future planning.

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Static

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Is learning happening?

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Sporadic

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It’s “so much work”

Intense & Collaborative

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What assessment points actually capture impact and growth opportunities?

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To show student growth and demonstrate understanding

demonstrating our contribution, advocating for more resources for us

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Feels impersonal

Marketing services-what the library can do

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hard to really assess in a one-shot setting beyond a satisfaction rating

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Lack of experience breeds anxiety

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Follow through.

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Not sure how to get started, especially with limited time with students. About half of the classes I teach are not the full class period because the professors will not give the library a full class session.

Fear of the word itself; being evaluated implies good/bad

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Increase student learning and engagement

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For me, it’s more valuable as a story for myself. I can see what works and what doesn’t.

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Robust but also mixed buy-in

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Lack of consistency

develop & continue our departmental goals

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follow-up

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I tend to get really caught up in the weeds with assessing things, and our students have serious survey fatigue at our institution which makes participation challenging

Value of library and instructional program

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Constraints of one-shot instruction; valuing qualitative as much as quantitative

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Show how we support student academic success.

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How to coordinate when librarians are faculty and can do whatever they want, librarian student learning values vs. justifying existence to administration

Stress over bandwidth to come up with something that measures our impact on student learning

lvelarde — 2025-06-06 15:14:21 UTC

when closing the loop on improvements requires action/investment from others, esp budget-wise

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Turning it into actionable items

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Difficult to find time to do it meaningfully

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Assess the effectiveness of my information literacy instruction

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No one wants to do it.

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Data isn't an accurate reflection of what students learned - they tell us what they think we want to hear

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Show that they got out of the session what I intended

How to go about it systematically

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Improve teaching

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long-term aspects of assessment. Does the information stick? How can the assessment of IL skills across time be measured?

There is a perceived inability to do assessment of library instruction. I also don’t want to overwhelm students but the one shot prevents me from sustained in class feedback

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Meaningful and not just “did you like your instructor today “

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Is it meaningful or is it being used

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Time, using the appropriate metrics, soliciting faculty feedback

justifying more class time. Making a case for librarians in the classroom beyond the one shot experience

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Individuality isn't prioritized

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Proscripted but flexible

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Have to assess 1 "thing" per year, can be iterative - but siloed, departments don't share out. Gen Ed will hopefully start doing so.

Measure student interest levels

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