Tailoring ResearchReady for Writing Composition Classes

Mary Broussard

Lycoming College

Who I am & how I got involved

What I love about ResearchReady

•Can be used out of the box

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What I love about ResearchReady

•But is also very customizable

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What I love about ResearchReady

•Good balance of text and video

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What I love about ResearchReady

•Can collect a lot of assessment data

Can be used for

• Formative assessment

• More exposure to information literacy in a class

• Flip an information literacy class

• As an online class

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My experience with English composition

• Summer 2014, approached English professor about adding ResearchReady

• Worked together to customize ResearchReady

• Goals:

• Get more information literacy into existing relationship

• Get more assessment data related to their information literacy knowledge and skills

• Flip the two visits to the library, to some extent

“Pre-Made” vs. Customized

• Worked with Level 2

• Worked with professor to select appropriate lessons:• Web Evaluation

• Conquering the Research Process

• Popular & Scholarly Sources

• Added pre- & post-tests tailored to the specific assignment

• Shortened Web Evaluation course by eliminating some practice lessons

• Created my own plagiarism tutorial video using Adobe Captivate

• Created another video tailored to the particular assignment

My experience with English composition

My experience with English composition

• 3 sections of Freshman Composition in Fall 2014 (~55 students)

• 2 sections of Freshman Composition in Spring 2015 (~35 students)

Assessment

Assessment

Assessment

Key assessment results

Key assessment results

Key assessment results:Which of the following helps you locate items on the shelves at

most libraries?

Reflection

• Students liked it

• Professor was happier with bibliographies

• People behind the product are helpful

• Hopes for expanding it next year

Questions?

• Mary Broussard

• Instructional Services Librarian

• Lycoming College

• broussm@lycoming.edu

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