PROJECT PARTICIPANTS

Bonnie Gratch-Lindauer Project Leader
and
Brian Lym
City College of San Francisco

Amelie Brown and
Andy Kivel
Diablo Valley College

Micca Gray
Santa Rosa Jr. College

Topsy Smalley
Cabrillo College

Pamela Baker
CSU-Monterey Bay

The project team gratefully acknowledges the support of a CARL Research Award,
a ACRL/IMLS Grant, and the support of the Chancellor's Office of the
California Community
Colleges
Participating librarians at these institutions are gratefully acknowledged: Glendale Community College, San Joaquin Delta College, and Foothill College.
Information Competency
Web Page at topsy.org

 

 

 
     
  Exam Materials Request Form

Executive Summary

The Bay Area Community Colleges Information Competency Assessment Project, a collaborative project among faculty librarians in the San Francisco Bay Area, has developed and field-tested an information competency assessment instrument that is

  • based on specific performance outcomes, and
  • criterion-referenced to national standards

    Part A

    Part B

    47 multiple choice, matching, and short answer items 12 performance-based exercises, several with sub-parts

The Project's purpose: to develop a challenge-out or credit-by-exam instrument that can be used and/or modified at community colleges that have an information competency requirement.

Project Outcomes [Formatted as pdf files. If needed, download Adobe Acrobat Reader.]

The Project team welcomes librarians and faculty to Make a Request to receive copies of the two-part assessment instrument.

The exam was not sufficiently field-tested for the Project Team to confirm its absolute validity and reliability.

This is not a "plug and play" exam. The Project team encourages librarians to read all the materials referenced above -- particularly the Test Specifications document -- before using and/or modifying the assessment instruments.

Topsy N. Smalley last rev. 2/09/04