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Purdue University: Project Description

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Primary Outcome Examined (select one or more)

✓ Student Learning: Assignment

✓ Student Learning: Course

(No) Student Learning: Major

(No) Student Learning: Degree

(No) Student Engagement

(No) Student Success

(No) Academic Intimacy/Rapport

(No) Enrollment

(No) Retention

(No) Completion

(No) Graduation

(No) Articulation

(No) Graduates' Career Success

(No) Testing (e.g., GRE, MCAT, LSAT, CAAP, CLA, MAPP)

(No) Other (please describe)
Primary Library Factor Examined (select one or more)

✓ Instruction

(No) Instruction: Games

(No) Instruction: One Shot

✓ Instruction: Course Embedded

(No) Instruction: Self-Paced Tutorials

(No) Reference

✓ Educational Role (other than reference or instruction)

(No) Space, Physical

✓ Discovery (library resources integrated in institutional web and other information portals)

(No) Discovery (library resource guides)

(No) Discovery (from preferred user starting points)

(No) Collections (quality, depth, diversity, format or currency)

(No) Personnel (number and quality)

(No) Other (please describe)
Student Population (select one or more)

✓ Undergraduate

(No) Graduate

(No) Incoming

(No) Graduating

(No) Pre-College/Developmental/Basic Skills

(No) Other (please describe)
Discipline (select one or more)

(No) Arts

(No) Humanities

(No) Social Sciences

(No) Natural Sciences (i.e., space, earth, life, chemistry or physics)

✓ Formal Sciences (i.e., computer science, logic, mathematics, statistics or systems science)

(No) Professions/Applied Sciences

(No) English Composition

(No) General Education

✓ Information Literacy Credit Course

(No) Other (please describe)
AiA Team Members (select one or more)

(No) Assessment Office

✓ Institutional Research

✓ Teaching Faculty

(No) Writing Center

(No) Information/Academic Technology

(No) Student Affairs

(No) Campus Administrator

✓ Library Administrator

✓ Other Librarian

(No) Other (please describe)

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Methods and Tools (select one or more)

(No) Survey

(No) Interviews

(No) Focus Group(s)

(No) Observation

(No) Pre/Post Test

✓ Rubric

✓ Other (please describe)

Thematic analysis
Direct Data Type (select one or more)

(No) Student Portfolio

✓ Research Paper/Project

✓ Class Assignment (other than research paper/project)

(No) Other (please describe)
Indirect Data Type (select one or more)

(No) Test Scores

(No) GPA

(No) Degree Completion Rate

(No) Retention Rate

(No) Other (please describe)

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