SPRINGBOARD: Innovative Assessment of Electronic and Invormation Literacy

TABLE OF CONTENTS

= first steps: short, simple activities to familiarize educators and students with alternative assessment options to evaluate information literacy and electronic literacy.

• Introduction
  Includes a venn diagram of intersecting educator roles
• Implementation Guide
  Includes a list of dangerous assessment design practices
• Assessment Glossary

Part 1 INFORMATION LITERACY

• Standards and Their Assessment by Audrey Conant
  A short background of national, state, and localized standards and the attendant growth and importance of alternative assessment. The anatomy of rubric development and its impact on reporting and accountability. A visual literacy project (Team Teaching Graphs) is related to specific Learning Results performance indicators. A science project (about lemmas) depicts a partnered venture into planning research assessment.
• Models and Modeling by Audrey Conant
  Necessary adjuncts to assessment. Description of scaffolding abstract concepts through think-alouds and walk-throughs, and note-sheets. Internal conferencing.
• A Developing Information Literacy Program in Yarmouth
  by Betsy Clark, Karen Guter, and Sally Jeanne Kappler. District development of an information literacy progression with attendant rubrics.
• Information Literacy as Process by Audrey Conant
  Emphases on monitoring information problem-solving during an inquiry.
• Student Initiative and the Research Process by Audrey Conant
  Motivational aspects of innovative assessment. Turning negative attitudes about educational redirection into positive initiatives. An outreach researching activity to build self-confidence and utilizing incentive in a peer teaching activity. A key word checklist.
• A New Look at Products by Audrey Conant
  Emphasis on assessing research as a process opens products to an array of appraisal: as revelatory communication, as successful solution, audience consideration, choice of growing format options.
• Portfolios by Audrey Conant
  Strengths of research portfolios and techniques to overcome weaknesses. Mini-research portfolios. Piggybacking on subject area portfolios. URLs for electronic portfolio projects & programs assembled by Abigail Garthwait.
• Double Entry Journals and Learning Logs by Marilyn Joyce
  Students using journals to develop meaning, make decisions, accumulate information, plan, reflect, react, and think. Instructors using ongoing written dialogue to assess and guide. Use of Bloom's Taxonomy. Extensive student quotes and teacher's comments from learning logs.
• Conferencing by Abigail Garthwait
  Includes strategies for productive conferences. A science project in retrospect. Four conferencing assessment tools.
• Observation by Nancy Grant and Audrey Conant
  An overview, with assessment tools, of how different ways of recording students in action can provide needed evidence and information, as well as an in-depth example of a fishbowl format. A List of Easily Adapted Assessment Tools to Measure Information Literacy
• Self-Assessment by Audrey Conant.
  The changing role of the learner in information literacy. Self-montitoring and constructively assessing one's achievement in light of chosen goals as lifelong learning skills. Includes activities employing class-developed criteria of electronic surveying to build design and analysis expertise for a projected world-wide questionnaire on child labor.
• Every Student a Teacher: Peer Assessment by Audrey Conant.
  Includes peer teaching skills activities and a hypercard reader response card.
• Webbing and its Assessment
  Sophisticated uses of webbing within information literacy programs. Criteria for assessment. A hierarchical web and a "yes-but" web, outlying problems and solutions to lack of program resources.

Part II ELECTRONIC LITERACY

• Electronic Literacy: by Abigail Garthwait
  Definition, and problems that afford librarians an opportunity to contribute their expertise to the meaningful use of the Internet. How to cite WWW resources.
  
  
• Pre-search and Searching - With and Without Technology. by Nancy Grant
  Example of how the author relates these two areas of the research process to an in-house collection, with suggestions for expanding the skills for computer and Internet use. Bibliography covers planning, integration of the library program, teaching strategies and research mini-lessons and tips for using computer resources.
  
  
• Decision-Making On the Internet by Abigail Garthwait
  Four elements of evaluation electronic sites as information sources. Also sample projects: web searching of landmarks and using the net in a history fair project. Net research journal form.
  
  
• Of Two Minds: A set of Sampler activities for the novice in assessment techniques: includes a checklist, a journal form, a peer assessment tool, and a self- assessment tool for the Internet.
  
  
• Adventure in Space: The Flight to Fix the Hubble. by Nancy Grant.
  A model research project to adapt for other Maine Student Book Award nominees. Starter ideas to develop into projects, visual literacy projects, personal input, and challenging projects. Internet addresses and assessment suggestions
  
  
• Focus on Internet Research: (The Watsons go to Birmingham - 1963. by Abigail Garthwait
  Sampler-style activities culling the internet and using information skills adapted to the challenges of net searching. Contains URLs for discretionary use to help student or educator beginners gain familiarity with topical sites. Ends with an analysis of web strengths and pitfalls derived from these activities.
  
  
• Electronic Glossary: Includes some Mac and Windows terms.
  
  
• Appendix A
  National Standards - access and ordering information.
• Appendix B
  Assessment Tools: A bank of models to adapt.
• Appendix C
  Bloom's Taxonomy Chart. with descriptive verbs. Updated: December 1997
• To: Maine Samplers . . . . . . Comments?

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