Assessing First-Year Student Understanding of "Authority is Constructed and Contextual"

Abstract

This poster shares the findings of a pilot assessment project that utilized the Threshold Achievement Test for Information Literacy (TATIL) Module 1: Evaluating Process & Authority. This assessment was administered to a small cohort of first-year students prior to and after completion of an information literacy unit in an orientation seminar. Since this assessment tool is relatively new and not yet appearing in the library literature, these results should be interesting to librarians from many institutions as they look for new methods for assessing student learning.