The University of California (UC), Santa Cruz University Library partnered with the campus Writing Program and Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Policy Studies to participate in the 2015/16 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Assessment in Action Program in order to assess the effectiveness of an online library research tutorial for conveying relevant Information Literacy skills to Composition 2 students completing a research assignment. This case study will give an overview of the project outcomes and describe the library’s strategy for using project data and design artifacts to support campus goals for defining Information Literacy learning outcomes across the curriculum.

This ACRL Assessment in Action Program project applied an ACRL Information Literacy Standards-based rubric to student research process coversheets and bibliographies. We measured seven Information Literacy outcomes for students who took an online research skills tutorial in lieu of an in-person instruction session.