If you build it, will they learn? Assessing online information literacy tutorials

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 429-445

  Lindsay, Elizabeth Blakesley ^a   Cummings, Lara ^a   Johnson, Corey M ^a   Scales, B Jane ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33749682076     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.67.5.429     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. Distance Degree Programs, Washington State University, Online Education/Education. Available online at http://www.distance.wsu.edu. [Accessed April 20, 2005].
2. See, for example, Jillian R. Griffiths and Peter Brophy, "Student Searching Behavior and the Web: Use of Academic Resources and Google," Library Trends 53, no. 4 (Spring 2005): 539-54,
3. and Christen Thompson, "Information Illiterate of Lazy: How College Students use the Web for Research," portal: Libraries and the Academy 3, no. 2 (April 2003): 259-68.
4. See Melissa Muth and Susan Taylor, "Comparing Online Tutorials with Face-to-face Instruction: A Study at Ball State University," in First Impressions, Lasting Impact: Introducing the First-year Student to the Academic Library (Ann Arbor: Pierian Press, 2002), 113-19;
5. William A. Orme, A Study of the Residual Impact of the Texas Information Literacy Tutorial on the Information-seeking Ability of First Year College Students, College and Research Libraries 65, no. 3 (May 2003): 205-15;
6. Marion Churkovich and Christine Oughtred, "Can an Online Tutorial Pass the Test for Library Instruction?" Australian Academic & Research Libraries 33, no. 1 (March 2002): 25-38.
7. Trudi E. Jacobson, "Assessment of Learning." In Developing Web-Based Instruction, ed. Elizabeth Dupuis, (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2003; London: Facet, 2004), 147-64.
8. Stephanie Michel, "What Do They Really Think? Assessing Student and Faculty Perspectives of a Web-based Tutorial to Library Research," College & Research Libraries 62, no. 4 (July 2001): 317-32.
9. Stephanie Michel, ," College & Research Libraries Ibid., 320.
10. Anna Marie Johnson and Phil Sager, "Too Many Students, Too Little Time: Creating and Implementing a Self-paced, Interactive Computer Tutorial for the Libraries' Online Catalog," Research Strategies 16, no. 4 (1998): 272.
11. Sophie Bury and Joanne Oud, "Usability testing of an Online Information Literacy Tutorial." Reference Services Review 33, no.1 (2005): 54-65.
12. Johnson and Sager, 278.
13. Joseph S. Dumas and Janice C. Redish, A Practical Guide to Usability Testing (Portland, Ore. Intellect, 1994), 23.
14. Jerrilyn R. Veldof, "Usability Tests." In Developing Web-Based Instruction, ed. Elizabeth Dupuis, (New York: Neal-Schuman, 2003; London: Facet, 2004), 129-46.
15. Carol M. Barnum, Usability Testing and Research (New York: Longman, 2002).
16. Elaina Norlin and CM! Winters, Usability Testing for Library Web Sites: A Hands-On Guide (Chicago: American Library Association, 2002).
17. Veldof, 129.
18. See Griffin tutorial online at http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/electric/ trainingmods/griffin_tutorial/books/index.html. [Accessed April 18, 2005]
19. See virtual library tours online at http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/electric/ trainingmods/undergrad_tour/trainer.html. [Accessed April 27, 2005]
20. See ProQuest viewlets online at http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/usered/ viewlets/. [Accessed April 27, 2005]
21. See NetLibrary tutorials online at http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/electric/ trainingmods/ netlibrary/. [Accessed May 10, 2005]
22. Susan Sharpless Smith, Web-Based Instruction: A Guide for Libraries (Chicago: ALA, 2001), 3.