TLS TIP: BETTER UNDERSTANDING OUR SIGNATURE COURSE STUDENTS
In the fall of 2014, Teaching and Learning Services distributed a test to students at the beginning and, later, the end of their Signature Course about information literacy concepts. A part of the...
View ArticleTLS Tips: Reflection as Assessment
At the end of the semester, I recommend scheduling time to reflect and perform a self-assessment of your teaching throughout the fall. If you incorporated any in-class assessments into your practice...
View ArticleRIOT: Does Library Instruction Make You Smarter?
All across UT (and higher education in general), people are attempting to assess student learning and articulate the value of their programs to student success, measured by retention, on-time...
View ArticleDiscussion: Want to Improve your Teaching? Be Organized.
AJ kicked off the meeting by discussing the article, “Teaching Clearly Can Be a Deceptively Simple Way to Improve Learning,” by Dan Berrett published in the November 22, 2013 issue of the Chronicle of...
View ArticleLesson + Study = Lesson Study! Researching learning in the college classroom
Sometimes you find a RIOT topic, and sometimes a RIOT topic finds you. I was jumping around from article to article last week when Michele sent out the latest issue of LOEX and this article caught my...
View ArticleThat’s What I Want… I think: Assessing User Needs for Maximum Library Outreach
Twitter, Facebook, Flash Tutorials, Instant Messenger, iPhone applications – all of these new technologies have captured the attention of librarians in the hopes that they’ll help us to connect with...
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