Norming a VALUE rubric to assess graduate information literacy skills.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The study evaluated whether a modified version of the information literacy Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) rubric would be useful for assessing the information literacy skills of graduate health sciences students.

Methods

Through facilitated calibration workshops, an interdepartmental six-person team of librarians and faculty engaged in guided discussion about the meaning of the rubric criteria. They applied the rubric to score student work for a peer-review essay assignment in the "Information Literacy for Evidence-Based Practice" course. To determine inter-rater reliability, the raters participated in a follow-up exercise in which they independently applied the rubric to ten samples of work from a research project in the doctor of

SUBMITTER: Turbow DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4915638 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature