“But are they learning anything?”: Designing an assessment of first year library instruction

College and Undergraduate Libraries

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 59-69

  Riddle, John S ^a,b   Hartman, Karen A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; First year students; Library instruction; Methodology; Research design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993003939     PISSN: 10691316     EISSN: 15452530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J106v07n02_06     Document Type: Article

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