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Charting Your Course: Using Curriculum Mapping to Enhance Information Literacy Susan [Gardner] Archambault LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY

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Presented at the 2014 Library Assessment Conference in Seattle, WA, on Aug. 4th.

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Page 1: Charting Your Course: Using Curriculum Mapping to Enhance Information Literacy

Charting Your Course:Using Curriculum Mapping to Enhance Information Literacy

Susan [Gardner] ArchambaultLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY

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DEVELOP procedure for reviewing & deconstructing curriculum

IDENTIFY “high impact” courses within each Dept. for embedding info lit

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LMU Curriculum Mapping Project

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Why Curriculum Mapping?

Get to know curriculumfor each major orprogram of study

What’s the place ofinformation literacy in the curriculum as a whole?

Where is it most strategic to embed info literacy so more students benefit?

Work with faculty to avoid duplication and gaps in information literacy instruction

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• Fill out a map for each Major/program of study

• List required “core” courses as well as “electives”

• Obtain copies of course syllabi for content analysis

• Identify learning outcomes and assignments related to LMU core info lit dimensions and map to course

• Meet with Chair/Department to discuss findings

Methodology

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LMU’s Information Literacy “Big Picture”

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In Search Of… Content Analysis

LMU CORE INFO LIT DIMENSIONS

Identify info need via research/hypothesis

Find info beyond assigned readings

Evaluate sources

Use evidence by integrating outside sources

Info ethics via proper citations

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Excerpt from Mapping Instructions

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Sample Curriculum Map

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Dissection of CMST 204

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Let’s Discuss:Where does your department build on foundational information literacy skills?

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FIRST YEAR SEMINAR

RHETORICAL ARTS

CMST 204

Example: Reinforcing & Building On

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• 46 upper-level courses embedded info lit into learning outcomes

• New opportunities for faculty-librarian collaboration

• More sequential info lit across the curriculum

Outcomes (So Far…)

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• ACRL-IS Management and Leadership Committee. (2010). Analyzing your instructional environment: A workbook. Retrieved from  http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/aboutacrl/directoryofleadership/sections/is/iswebsite/projpubs/aie/aie.pdf

• Boss, K. & Drabinski, E. (2013). Looking for infoLit: Using syllabi to map strategic information literacy instruction. 7th International Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference, July 15-18, 2013, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Retrieved from http://eblip7.library.usask.ca/docs/Boss_Drabinski_EBLIP7_presentation

• Maki, P. (2010). Assessing for learning: Building a sustainable commitment across the institution. 2nd edition. Sterling, VA : Stylus Publishing.

• LMU Library. (2014). Curriculum mapping at LMU. Retrieved from http://libguides.lmu.edu/mapping2

Reader’s Advisory

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• Moser, M., Heisel, A., Jacob, N., & McNeill, K. (2011). A more perfect union: Campus collaborations for curriculum mapping information literacy outcomes. ACRL 2011: A Declaration of Interdependence, March 30 – April 2, 2011, Philadelphia, PA. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/events/national/2011/papers/more_perfect_union.pdf

• National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment. (2012).  Curriculum mapping tool kit. Retrieved from http://www.learningoutcomeassessment.org/Mapping.htm

• UNLV Libraries. (2011). UNLV Libraries instructional framework working group report. Retrieved from http://www.library.unlv.edu/about/instruction_framework

Reader’s Advisory

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Thank You:William H. Hannon Library Research Incentive Travel Grant

Susan Gardner Archambault [email protected]@susanarcham