DRAFT
Present: Angie LocknerLocknar, Lisa Horowitz, Mark Szarko, Peter Cohn (chair), Remlee Green, Lisa Sweeney, Georgiana McReynolds, Bill Helman, Linda SobotkkaSobottka, Maggie Bartley (minutes)
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Two new RISG members, Bill Helman from Rotch and Linda Sobotkka Sobottka from Science, were welcomed. Departing member Alan Rostoff was thanked for his work and contributions to the committee.
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Pursuant to the system wide instruction plan, the instruction assessment group (Angie, Lisa Horowitz, Mark) reported on their work on developing a pilot plan to assess student learning. They have reviewed a number of standards and tools related to undergraduate information literacy, and from these, identified several tools to assess short and long term learning outcomes for undergraduates at MIT. The proposed outcomes focus on students' ability to select appropriate resources according to their information need. Vehicles for implementing the tools were discussed, and more needs to be learned about taking advantage of the MIT Student SurveySenior Survey, as well as other surveys done of undergrads as well as grad students.
Wording of the tools was discussed and there were additional suggestions for outcomes that are important for undergraduate literacy. It was agreed that basic data concepts and quantitative information should be considered for assessment in some way. Maggie will share the proposed standards with Kate McNeill and seek her input on assessment of data-related information.
It was agreed that the group should continue to refine the tools and develop a plan for implementation. Discussion of assessment for graduate students and whether to continue the survey of students' assessment of instruction relevance, currently in pilot stage, was deferred to another meeting.
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Remlee presented recommendations on formatting and style that the LibGuides task force (Remlee, Angie, Peter, Georgiana, Maggie) has developed for LibGuides pages. Because it is user-friendly, LibGuides, a content management system, can be used by subject specialists to create course pages, subject guides, cheatsheets, etc. LibGuides will also be used to present listings of databases and their descriptions by subject. Training for subject specialists and web contacts has been scheduled for July.
The group discussed issues related to the merging of the content of former subject guides and , publication type guides, course guides, and cheatsheets with the database listings to create "hybrid" research guides. UIG and RISG will have more discussions about how to develop the new research guides and associated navigation paths once Nicole and Marion have created some mock-ups.
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