Campus Library Assessment

Librarians partner closely with faculty to provide scaffolded information literacy instruction across the curriculum. Our instruction program targets core courses and supports the development of research skills throughout students' education.

Together, librarians, faculty and other campus stakeholders work to assess student learning, guided by the campus goals and the library's student learning goals.

Our assessment results are used to enrich student learning through the improvement of research assignments, instruction, and faculty-librarian collaborations.

In 2023-24, we collected library Canvas assignments focusing on learning about the peer review publishing process and using interdisciplinary and disciplinary databases to find and select scholarly sources for research projects. Four different assignment varieties were represented in the 144 assignments collected across seven hybrid sections of UW Bothell's BWRIT 135 and Cascadia's ENGL 102 during fall and winter quarters. Six samples of each of the four assignment types were selected randomly for formal assessment using a common rubric.

Please see the executive summary report for more details, results, and recommendations:

In the 2019-20 academic year, the library revised our information literacy (IL) student learning goals with input from students, faculty, and staff.