The Out Loud Assignment: Articulating Library Contributions to First-year Student Success |
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| Authors: | Elizabeth L Black Sarah Anne Murphy |
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| Institution: | The Ohio State University Libraries, 255B Thompson Library, 1858 Neil Avenue Mall, Columbus, OH 43210, United States |
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| Abstract: | As more and more libraries consider GPA and year-to-year retention as relevant and meaningful measures of interest, it is important to consider whether these measures are locally appropriate. Several limitations of broadly applying GPA and first-year retention as measures of student success were recently discovered while completing a large exploratory research project. The project assessed the impact of a library assignment offered to students during their first term on campus at a large public research university. Findings revealed the assignment had a greater impact on regional campus students in contrast to the larger central campus, where changes in admission requirements has created an increasingly high-performing cohort of first-year students. Other indicators which may better locally articulate library contributions to student success are needed. |
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| Keywords: | Student success Undergraduates Library instruction Metacognition Retention GPA Assessment Academic libraries Library orientation |
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