Report prepared by the OSU Libraries Instruction Work Group for the Office of Academic Programs and Academic Assessment. The report describes the Libraries' processes for program improvement with regard to student learn ...

Concern about college and career readiness has been expressed in both the business and education arenas. Employers are calling for entry-level employees with basic academic skills and educators are being held accoun ...

Assessment of a 1-credit, required course (English 200 Library Skills for Literary Studies). Consists of interviews with English faculty, survey of students, pre-skills assessments.

Oregon State University Libraries took advantage of ILL requests submitted through ILLiad to pilot a "just-in-time" (purchase on demand) program for loans. Robust assessment of the pilot program allowed for a data-driven ...

Assessing students' information literacy skills can be difficult depending on the involvement of the librarian in a course. To overcome this, librarians created an assignment called the Paper Trail, where students wrote ...

Four aspects of factors influencing the accuracy of nondestructive chlorophyll (Chl) and nitrogen (N) measurement in fresh leaves were studied: (1) optimum wavelength (OW) identification; (2) indices development and eval ...