Last week I gave a talk at Leeds Met University based around the topic of learning habits and information literacy. One of the case studies I mentioned generated a bit of interest so I thought it was worth mentioning here. I’ve been working with a couple of academic staff on ways to measure the impact of IL interventions and we have come up with an IL assessment criteria sheet. We’re using it to “score” evidence of IL in student work at the start and end of the first year. We used it with a group of students this week – alongside the feedback from the lecturer about the content of their work, they received a feedback sheet from me about various IL elements. I was pleased with how well this went, the students took it quite seriously and asked a lot of questions about how to improve their score. Time will tell whether future assessments demonstrate a difference, but giving feedback in this way certainly seemed to raise awareness amongst the students.

Another view of Hadrian’s Wall