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PILR Pre-college Information Literacy Research

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Project Description

Research sites will identify information literacy learning outcomes, design instruction and assignments, and use standardized rubrics to assess student learning in pre-college courses. Sites will collect and report data to document student achievement of IL outcomes. Data will be used to explore the impact of IL instruction on achievement and transition for pre-college students.

A limited number of teams will be selected for winter and spring 2010. Priority is given to proposals that:

Demonstrate previous experience and/or collaborations with information literacy
Reach the greatest number of students at multiple pre-college levels
Involve multiple pre-college faculty

PILR Findings

Findings and data from the PILR project will be available after October 31, 2012.

More Information

Slideshow about the project. (From the Winter 2011 orientation session). Recorded Elluminate session from Jan. 24, 2011.
Project data and reports on the PILR Deliverables page.
View a summary of 2009-2010 projects.
View a summary of 2010-2011 projects.
View a summary of 2011-2012 projects.

To participate starting winter or spring 2011:

Submit application by November 30, 2010 for projects beginning winter 2011. Additional proposals will be considered after Feb. 11, 2011. Download Application

Research Question

How does/Does information literacy make a contribution to overall learning and transition for pre-college students?

Develop/find methods for integrating IL into pre-college programs (phase I)
Seek evidence to support the hypothesis that IL instruction makes a difference in overall learning and transition for pre-college students. (phase II)

Assumptions:

Information literacy is an accepted learning outcome
Library can make a contribution to achieving information literacy
Achievement of information literacy needs to start in developmental education (pre-college programs)
Collaborative efforts by the library and developmental education is a viable way to achieve information literacy

Requirements

Each group will participate for four quarters as follows. New groups may begin each quarter as funding allows:

Plan and test assignments/assessment
Implement assignments and enter first dataset
Revise assignments, implement again, and enter second dataset
Final revisions, Implement again, and enter third dataset; review & analyze results

Participating teams agree to:

Participate for 4 quarters: one planning quarter followed by three quarters of implementation as described above
Plan IL intervention and assessment for at least one course per pre-college faculty participant; each course must include at least one assignment to address selected IL learning outcomes; additional assignments are recommended.
Use the integrated assignment template and rubrics provided by the PILR Committee. Rubric (current version as of 10.18.2010)
Use the IL planning template to develop an instruction and assessment plan for the integrated assignment.
Collect and analyze assessment data and produce a research report. Use this form to report your data.
Track IL learning outcome achievement for individual students
Share findings/experiences through a workshop or Elluminate session and mentor others when possible
Participate in 3rd quarter progress check using recorded data and comparing with existing student data
Administer standard questions to students regarding the instruction
Respond to instructor survey quarterly
Provide deliverables:

By the end of the first quarter, provide a plan that describes the courses, learning outcomes, levels, and assignments, and assessment strategies to be used in implementation quarters
At the end of quarters 2, 3, 4: provide qualitative description and enter assessment data for identified learning outcomes into database

Teams

A “team” consists of one librarian and one or more pre-college faculty. A college may have multiple teams with up to 6 faculty/librarian participants total (e.g., 4 pre-college faculty and 2 librarians or 5 pre-college faculty and 1 librarian). The number of librarians participating must not exceed the number of pre-college faculty.

College	Team Leader	Team Identifier	Intial Quarter
Lower Columbia	Andrea Gillaspy Steinhilper	LCC-A1	winter 2010
Pierce - Ft. Steilacoom	Sarah Frye	PCFS-A1	winter 2010
South Seattle	Esther Sunde	SSCC-A1	winter 2010
South Seattle	Shireen Deboo	SSCC-A2	winter 2010
Skagit Valley	Margret Mills	SVC-A1 (McRill) SVC-A2 (Kent)	winter 2010
Clover Park	Elaine Holster	CPTC-B1	spring 2010
Lake Washington	Cheyenne Roduin	LWTC-B1	spring 2010
Pierce - Puyallup	Beth Thoms	PCP-B1	spring 2010
Wenatchee Valley	Barbara Oldham	WVC-B1	spring 2010
Whatcom	Robin Angeley	WCC-B1	spring 2010
Walla Walla	Quill West	WWCC-C1	fall 2010
Walla Walla	Stacy Prest	WWCC-C2	fall 2010
Columbia Basin	Ying Yu	CBC-C1	fall 2010
Columbia Basin	Drew Proctor	CBC-C2	fall 2010
Highline	Karen Fernandez	HCC-C1	fall 2010
Highline	Dana Franks	HCC-C2	fall 2010
Highline	Deb Moore	HCC-C3	fall 2010
Lower Columbia	Susan James	LCC-D1 LCC-D2 LCC-D3	winter 2011
Green River	Katy Dichter	GRCC-D1 GRCC-D2	winter 2011
Bellingham	Traci Collins	BTC-D1 BTC-D2	winter 2011
Bellingham	Jane Blume	BTC-D3	winter 2011
Bellevue	Myra Van Vactor	BC-E1 BC-E2 BC-E3 BC-E4	spring 2011
Seattle Central	Sharon Spence-Wilcox	SCCC-E1 SCCC-E2 SCCC-E3	spring 2011

Timeline

Nov. 20, 2009	Workshop for CTC librarians and interested pre-college faculty. Applicants are encouraged (but not required) to attend. Note: This workshop is full. Contact lkanne@sccd.ctc.edu to be added to the waiting list.
Nov. 25, 2009	Notify project coordinator of intent to apply
Dec. 4, 2009	Submit this proposal; Groups A and B teams selected and notified by December 10, 2009
Winter 2010	Group A teams start, Quarter 1 (A1)
Jan. 15, 2010	PILR Research Team orientation via Elluminate 2-4 p.m. Listen to recorded session or view PowerPoint slides.
March 24, 2010	Post documents on the deliverables page. and stipend reimbursement requests (by April 9) to LSTA Coordinator
June 3, 2010	Rubric norming Session with Megan Oakleaf. Details TBA.
Spring 2010	A2, B1 (Group B teams start); Submit RFPs for 2010-11; select and notify teams by end of spring 2010
May 21, 2010	Deadline to apply PILR teams (Group C teams) to begin in fall 2010
June 18, 2010	Link required documents on the deliverables page. and stipend reimbursement requests to LSTA Coordinator
Summer 2010	Review and analyze first set of data from Group A
Fall 2010	A3, B2, C1 (Group C teams start)
Winter 2011	A4, B3, C2, D1 (Group D teams start)
Spring 2011	B4, C3, D2, E1 (Group E teams start. Continue as funding allows – up to group E).

Funding

Funding is available for a maximum of 6 participants per college/site. Participants receive a quarterly stipend, which will be processed when all team deliverables have been received:

Quarter 1: $450 per participant; Quarters 2, 3, and 4: $350 per participant per quarter
Maximum per site/college over 4 quarters: $9,000; maximum per person: $1,500

All funding is contingent on renewed funding for years 3 and 4 of the LSTA grant administered by the Office of the Secretary of State/Washington State Library.

Librarian/Faculty teams from Washington state CTCs are invited to apply to participate in a research project to develop and assess assignments that enhance student learning among pre-college students (basic skills, ESL, and developmental education) by incorporating information literacy (IL) into pre-college curriculum.

Interested teams should email Lynn Kanne, Grant Coordinator (lkanne@sccd.ctc.edu)