Summary:

This book will help you to not only answer this question, but also
prove your findings. Walking you through the process of assessing if
and how well students and library users are learning from educational
resources, two expert academic library experts team up to provide An
Action Plan for Outcomes Assessment in Your Library. This
comprehensive plan, the first of its kind and specifically for
librarians, provides data collection tools for measuring both
learning and research outcomes that link outcomes to user
satisfaction. After all, it is the users who will benefit from
learning, and so thei.

Notes:

Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: A New Day Is Here;
Chapter 2: Assessment Plans, Reports, and Guides in Institutions of
Higher Education; Chapter 3: Developing an Assessment Plan for
Measuring Student Learning Outcomes; Chapter 4: Information Literacy
Assessment Efforts of Some Academic Libraries; Chapter 5: Moving
Public Libraries toward Outcomes Assessment; Chapter 6: Outcomes as a
Type of Assessment; Chapter 7: The Research Process; Chapter 8:
Evidence Demonstrating the Achievement of Outcomes; Chapter 9:
Service Quality and Satisfaction.

Chapter 10: Making a Commitment to Accountability and Learning
Outcomes AssessmentAppendices; Some Recommended Sources; Index;

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Dewey Class: 27.70973 -- General libraries
LCC Number: Z675

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Physical Description: 206 p.

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