Currently, several strands of evidence are gathered to continually improve the program:
Faculty Evaluations
Student Evaluations
Pre-tests and Post-tests
The instruments for AY 12/13 can be viewed 2 boxes below.
We are also designing a rubrics asssessment of student papers to be implemented in Fall 13.
Online Evaluations
Session leaders tender online evaluations at the end of each session. The coordinator runs reports as soon as possible, and sends a pdf to the session leaders (librarians or LibRATs). This bolsters instructional confidence and allows session leaders to tweak their presentations. In AY 12/13 we began running a pre-test that included basic vocabulary and some content-questions related to traits of peer reviewed journals. The post-test/evaluation has some identical questions to the pre-test, but also evaluative questions relating to the manner/style of the session leader and to session content. At the end of fall term (the busiest) another questionnaire is sent to instructional faculty for their feedback. The instruments for AY 2012/13 can be viewed in the box below.