Sharing the Evidence: Library Media Center Assessment Tools and Resources Connie Champlin

What evidence do you collect as a LMS? How do you use it? Connie Champlin presents how to use and present data that you collect. Connie started us out by talking about the data we collect with the people around us. My group talked about the importance of collection circulation stats. We after about 5 minutes then as a session as a whole talked about the different levels of what we collect. Connie then went on with her presentation.

Use your words

Connie talks about using your districts buzz words for data collection. Evidence-Based instruction, Triangulation Based Evidence are two of the more popular.

Tools to use

"We Boost Achievement" and "Sharing the Evidence" are two publications that give several ideas on how to collect and present LMC data. "Impact" is another tool to use to collect data using Excel. Time tracking keeps track of student time management. Connie includes a list of web sites for data collection on here hand out on p. 127 of the Conference Binder.

Collaboration

Connie encourages us to use Collaboration sheets to keep track of what you are working on with other teachers. "Indiana Learns" is a web site that has several collaboration sheets you can use.  Use rubrics too- get your Library and technologies on those rubrics. 

Information Literacy

Have students evaluate their process. Ask students how they go about research. Have the younger kids draw a picture about how they research information. 

Connie's Session hand outs are on page 127-128 of the Conference Binder