Library Assessment Committee

A variety of resources are available to help articulate learning goals and outcomes, create assessment plans, and develop and use assessment tools to improve student learning.

Once you are logged in to MYLMU you can view reports summarizing evidence of student achievement of LMU's Undergraduate Learning Outcomes, including the Information Literacy Outcome.

If you are conducting research involving human subjects, you may need to apply for IRB approval before you can get started. This page has links to the necessary paperwork you would need to submit and more information on what steps this process entails.

ACRL report synthesizing the findings from assessment projects completed by the first cohort of 70 institutions of higher learning that participated in the Assessment in Action: Academic Libraries and Student Success program.

This calculator compares observed and expected frequencies with the chi-square test.

Recordings, presentation slides, and handouts from an OCLC Collective Insight Event, held at Brandeis University, April 22, 2014. This event included an overview of assessment practice and case studies describing the use of practical tools and techniques that can be tailored for use in one's library.

This is a data set within ICPSR that might offer data of value in doing peer comparisons. It concerns services and collections in particular.

This Learning Space Toolkit will include a roadmap to guide the process along with tools and techniques for assessing needs, understanding technology, describing spaces, planning and delivering support services, and assembling space, technology, and services to meet needs, even as they change."

This guide from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation provides practical assistance in initiating and completing outcome-oriented evaluation of projects.

Suma is an open-source mobile web-based assessment toolkit for collecting and analyzing observational data about the usage of physical spaces and services.

The 2013 Handbook presents the Standards of Accreditation of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, LMU's regional accrediting body.

Smart note-taking app for interviews

Suggested loading thresholds for various sample sizes.