We received evidence that Information Literacy has succeeded at NJIT

We received this e-mail from the Director of Reference:

This morning,[Humanities Professor] Norbert Elliot sent us the preliminary statistical analysis of our information literacy assessment for the Fall 2008 cohort of writing students.The results are impressive –showing that our revised curriculum and Roadmaps intervention seems to be having a positive effect on student performance. Professor Elliot wrote:

“In each case, the IL scores were higher after the introduction of your Research Roadmap than before that instruction was introduced. “

This is certainly a team effort, but most of the kudos must go to the Director of Reference and Information Literacy Librarian who did most of the teaching in Fall 2008. I did teach some of the classes in the humanities, but my expertise is in training students to use information resources in chemistry and related disciplines. Hopefully, the engineering students who took the required writing courses will retain their information literacy skills and use them when they take courses in their respective majors.