December 17, 2010 – 11:12 am
(See this post for an introduction to this blog series.) Well, this is the final post in the series, and I thought I would wrap up with one last thought, which is to point out that this entire series has been enabled by the minute paper assessments that I got back at the end of […]
December 16, 2010 – 2:06 pm
(See this post for an introduction to this blog series.) One question that got asked over and over again was essentially, “how can I use this information in my annual performance review and/or my tenure portfolio?” And that’s an excellent question! It’s common practice for teaching faculty members to include course evaluations as part of […]
December 14, 2010 – 2:32 pm
(See this post for an introduction to this blog series.) I got several comments on my presentation that were roughly analogous to this one, which I am quoting exactly (the emphasis is in the original): So, to me, they’re still evals of what students think they’re learning, not whether or not they’re actually learning. So, […]
December 13, 2010 – 10:40 am
(See this post for an introduction to this blog series.) So the first example I used in my presentation was a collection of excerpts from minute papers that eventually convinced me that a large portion of our students, given a journal article citation, don’t know how to find it in a collection of bound print […]
December 7, 2010 – 2:22 pm
(See this post for an introduction to this blog series.) As the sole instruction librarian at my library (among a staff of seven), scalability and sustainability are really important to me. So when I saw comments to the effect of: well, it’s lovely that you’re able to do this at your itty bitty liberal arts […]
December 3, 2010 – 1:55 pm
(See this post for an introduction to this blog series.) The second most-common idea I found in the minute paper responses can be summed up in the following quotation: We are going through accreditation, and the committee wants more than anecdotal – how do you assess to get the “numbers”? I also got asked virtually […]
December 1, 2010 – 9:00 am
(See this post for an introduction to this blog series.) The single most common response I got on my conference presentation minute papers can be accurately represented by this quote: How on earth to institute this kind of reflective practice among other librarians!! First off, this is a problem of leadership and organizational culture. Assessment, […]
November 30, 2010 – 10:00 am
So, about a month ago, I gave two conference presentations at two different conferences in the space of two weeks. It was a little nuts, and I probably won’t be trying that crazy trick again any time soon, but I did get to go to two completely different, and extraordinarily valuable, conferences and give presentations […]
