Moving from Critical Assessment to Assessment as Care

Douglas, Veronica Arellano

doi:10.15760/comminfolit.2020.14.1.4

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“…While multiple-choice testing does not necessarily run counter to teaching intersectionality, it reinforces a teaching practice that determines if students meet grading criteria arbitrarily established by the module's designers. Relying on solely the student success rate from the assessment can lead to assumptions about whether students' learning is satisfactory or deficient (Arellano Douglas, 2020). This either/or, positivist grading framework can be limiting in examining the student's full individual experience with the module.…”

Section: Learner Engagement With Intersectional Research Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching Intersectionality in Instructional Librarianship: Asynchronous Information Literacy Instruction in the Health Sciences

Chase

2024

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This article explores the topic of intersectionality and its applications in teaching graduate students at a health sciences university. The case study examined the creation of an asynchronous information literacy module that centered intersectionality in the research process. Summative assessment data indicated that students were able to critically reflect on gaps in their knowledge to address health inequities, learn the narratives of multiply-marginalized patients, and make connections between research and intersectional justice. The study also revealed areas for improvement such as restructuring the assessment component of the module to better evaluate student success, strengthening the module as a socially engaging learning space for students, and integrating other metrics to measure the student experience. Findings from this study demonstrate how instructional librarians can create equitable and engaging learning spaces through an asynchronous instruction model as well as teaching intersectionality in STEMM-specific disciplines.

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Section: Learner Engagement With Intersectional Research Practicesmentioning

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Teaching Intersectionality in Instructional Librarianship: Asynchronous Information Literacy Instruction in the Health Sciences

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2024

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“…Learning lessons from library services and resources that serve virtual students is also valuable, such as evaluating chat and library electronic resources (Dempsey, 2019;Devine et al, 2011;Eastman et al, 2019;Ireland & Woods, 2008;Leong, 2007;Logan et al, 2019;Maloney & Kemp, 2015;Rogers & Nielsen, 2017;Valentine & Moss, 2017). Library assessment that helps online students is not always in the form of an analysis on this population; recent studies on critical assessment and creating inclusive instruction and virtual spaces also help librarians better serve all underrepresented patron groups (Catalano, 2014;Douglas, 2020;Heinbach et al, 2019;Roth & Turnbow, 2021;Tewell, 2020).…”

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Assessing Demographics and Needs of Online Students before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Academic Libraries

Harlow

2022

Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learn

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Students are integral to all universities, and online students have long been a growing and important population within higher education. Understanding the shifts of demographics and needs of online students through a global pandemic is crucial for university administrators, instructors, and librarians. For this analysis, a librarian at a mid-sized, public university performed a mixed-method study with interviews and surveys to virtual students about their academic needs before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study found that online students continue to want versatile and diverse library tools and resources to advance their academic success to face world challenges.

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“…In separating two aspects of knowledge creation, the thinking and sensing activities of the educational process are categorized independently, allowing value to be ascribed to one over the other. This approach is common within Library and Information Science (LIS), where learning analytics are widely used to demonstrate impact, while the value of relationship-building and connection is often relegated to the margins (Arellano Douglas, 2020). A process of learning and unlearning, however, is not a dualistic process; in gathering additional knowledge (thinking) and reconciling it with our past notions of knowing (sensing/feeling), a dialectical third space opens within the learning journey (Rendón, 2008; Anzaldúa, 2002).…”

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Beyond El Arrebato: the seven stages of Conocimiento as instruments for radical reflection and the unlearning of white supremacy culture

Mazari

2021

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PurposeTo be actively antiracist requires an internal reckoning, what Chicana activist and scholar Gloria E. Anzaldúa referred to as “el arrebato.” Used to describe the first of seven cycles through which conocimiento, or knowledge, is formed, el arrebato presents a shift in the understanding of the world as it has been prescribed by both patriarchy and white supremacy. This paper will use Anzaldúa's Seven Stages of Conocimiento to trace a Latinx librarian's journey in unlearning white supremacy toward a shift to antiracist practices.Design/methodology/approachThis ethnography follows the author from her time as a Diversity Alliance resident librarian in an R1 library to her current position as a tenure-track librarian in a primarily white institution, outlining how the seven stages have led toward active interrogation of not only library structures but with the legacy of anti-Black and anti-Indigenous discourse within her own Latinx identity.FindingsAs an ongoing reflective practice, this paper presents a journey of learning and unlearning toward critically deconstructing the culture of “niceness” within librarianship, where the principles of neutrality and vocational awe lend to library structures that place responsibility on the individual for institutional trauma rather than rightly examining and reconstructing the environments and structures themselves.Originality/valueThis autoethnography presents the viewpoint of a first-generation Latinx librarian growing up in a tricultural context in the Midwest.

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Moving from Critical Assessment to Assessment as Care

Cited by 7 publications

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Teaching Intersectionality in Instructional Librarianship: Asynchronous Information Literacy Instruction in the Health Sciences

Teaching Intersectionality in Instructional Librarianship: Asynchronous Information Literacy Instruction in the Health Sciences

Assessing Demographics and Needs of Online Students before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from Academic Libraries

Beyond El Arrebato: the seven stages of Conocimiento as instruments for radical reflection and the unlearning of white supremacy culture

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