Supplementary materials for “But what did they learn? What classroom assessment can tell you about student learning,” presented as an ACRL e-Learning webcast on July 19, 2011:
- Presentation slides (.ppt)
- Complete text of the “minute paper” assessment referred to in the presentation (.doc)
- Additional assessment tools, adapted for use in “one-shot” library instruction (.doc)
Specific articles/sources referred to in the presentation:
- Angelo, Thomas A., and K. Patricia Cross. Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1993.
- This is the “Bible” of classroom assessment in higher education. It contains many different assessment tools, including the “minute paper” and the other tools mentioned in the “additional tools” document above.
- Wright, Robert E. “Student evaluations of faculty: Concerns raised in the literature, and possible solutions.” College Student Journal 40, no. 2 (June 2006): 417-422.
- This article summarizes the available literature on the validity and reliability of course evaluations.
- The screencast for how to use our OpenURL resolver / link resolver (SFX) to find the full text of an article (opens in a new window).
When I presented this material as two conference presentations in the fall of 2010, I did a “minute paper” assessment for the presentations themselves. Quite a few common themes emerged in those minute papers, which I address in a “Conference Talkback 2010” series of blog posts.
