Down and Dirty
Evaluations
Laura Heinz and Carrye Syma
Associate Librarians
Texas Tech University Libraries
ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher
Education
http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/informationliteracycompetency
Assessment and ACRL Standards are things we
hear about often in libraries. But how do you
perform assessment and incorporate the ACRL
Standards for Information Literacy?
We are currently surveying incoming Texas Tech
students to find out what mobile devices are preferred.
This information will enable the TTU Libraries to create
services that will best suit the needs of TTU students.
These are the types of devices we are looking at:
Smartphone
iPad or other tablet
Kindle
Nook
Laptop or netbook
We are using Turning Technologies clickers for PowerPoint
Polling. In the past we have also used Survey Monkey. Turning
technologies is quick and easy and generally takes less than 3
minutes of class time. During that time we are able to ask a series
of questions and get immediate feedback using clickers. Student
responses are anonymous for this type of polling.
 For our needs with this assessment, we are focusing in ACRL
standard two: The information literate student accesses
needed information effectively and efficiently.
Sample responses from our survey
Survey Monkey Example of
Questions
Survey Monkey Example of Graph
Response
Survey Monkey Example of Open
Ended Response
 How do you think the content can be improved?
• None. It’s simple, perfect and fun to learn.
• Just technical aspects such as due dates and navigation
on blackboard.
• I can’t think of any improvements, it was a very helpful
class overall.
• I think it was great the way it is.
• Go into more detail with the videos/graphic novel text.
Pros of Turning Technologies
 Instant feedback
 Calculates responses for you
 Easy to read format
Pros of Survey Monkey
 Can send out a link
 May ask open ended questions
 Easy to read format
Cons of Turning Technologies
 Cannot ask open ended questions (as we are new to this
technology it is possible that we need to investigate this
option further)
 Must invest in the clickers
Cons of Survey Monkey
 May take a while to get responses, cannot always complete
during class time
 Need Survey Monkey account