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1987
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED293463 |
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- Measuring Students' Progress in Bibliographic Instruction: The Iowa State University Experience. Peterson, Lorna College Students Competence Educational History Educational Testing Grading Higher Education Library Instruction Library Skills Required Courses Student Evaluation Undergraduate Study The evolution and administration of testing to measure student progress through a required undergraduate bibliographic instruction course (Library 160) at Iowa State University are described. Bibliographic instruction began at the university in 1890. Through 1958 all colleges within the university received a noncredit required course in library instruction. Some of the colleges enacted a 10-week one-credit course. The basis for the final grade, the format of quizzes and the final examination, and the grading scale are identified. The first uniform course of library instruction was offered in 1971. A 10-week, one-credit course with satisfactory or fail grading was approved by all colleges except engineering, which remained a 5-week course. Four units were covered: card catalog, serials list, indexing and abstracting journals, and reference books. When the university changed from the quarter to the semester system in 1981, the course was redesigned to fit the new system. The role of formative and summative evaluation in measurement of student progress is discussed. (SW)