Thinking beyond the Disjunctive Opposition of Information Literacy Assessment in Theory and Practice

Autor/in	Newell, Terrance S.
Titel	Thinking beyond the Disjunctive Opposition of Information Literacy Assessment in Theory and Practice
Quelle	In: School Library Media Research, 7 (2004), (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1523-4320
Schlagwörter	Computer Simulation; Ethnography; Role Perception; School Libraries; Media Specialists; Information Literacy; Learning Resources Centers; Theory Practice Relationship; Academic Achievement; Librarians; Library Science; Alternative Assessment; Educational Environment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Ethnografie; Role conception; Rollenverständnis; School library; Schulbibliothek; Mediengestalter; Informationskompetenz; Learning resources centres; Lehrmittelzentrum; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Schulleistung; Librarian; Bibliothekar; Bibliothekarin; Bibliothekswissenschaft; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt
Abstract	School library literature has illuminated several structural barriers (such as lack of time and role perception conflict) that impede many school library media specialists (SLMSs) from fulfilling their student assessment role in practice, and specialists have identified technology as a mediating artifact that could aide in an expansion of that role. The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to interrogate a middle school's information literacy assessment system for internal disturbances (tensions and contradictions) between system elements that restrict the SLMS's ability to assess information literacy; and (2) to design a technology-based instrument that addresses these system disturbances and enables SLMSs to expand their assessment roles. The researcher used rapid design ethnography coupled with an activity theory (AT)-based analysis to produce an indepth description of the assessment system disturbances. A technology-based assessment instrument was then designed and developed to address the system disturbances. The ethnographic methods and AT analysis informed the design and development of a Virtual Reality Information Literacy Learning and Assessment Space (VILLAS). VILLAS addresses the four primary assessment disturbances illuminated in recent library literature in addition to the site-specific disturbances identified in this study, and it has the potential to decrease the distance between the librarian's assessment roles as envisioned in theory and as realized in practice. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	American Association of School Librarians. Available from: American Library Association. 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, IL 60611. Tel: 800-545-2433; Web site: http://www.ala.org/aasl/slmr
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10