Positioning Yourself in the Field -- Step 2

Here's a description of my topic:
As a broad topic, I am examining the assessment of instruction in higher education. Within this broad topic, I am reviewing assessment of distance education and assessment of library instruction (both traditional and online). I hope to use the literature to make some comparisons between assessment of library instruction, assessment of general instruction, assessment of traditional instruction, and assessment of online instruction.

Since I didn't find enough information about assessment of library instruction, my broader topic includes assessing instruction in general, paying specific attention to assessment of online instruction and assessment of library instruction. I found about 10 articles on assessment of library instruction, about 20 on assessment of online instruction, and the rest of the over 60 articles I found deal with assessment generally. I really hope to find articles that focus on measures of learning, not satisfaction type surveys of students after instruction. This will the first of my critera for inclusion in the annontated bibliograpy. As I further develop critea, I'll continue to post.

Rationale:
As I said in an earlier blog, libraries are focusing on "information literacy" and providing increasing amounts of library instruction. As distance education programs nationwide are expanding libraries are producing more online instruction in the form of web page guides and tutorials. Most librarians haven't been education in IDT and have varying amounts of training related to instruction.

This being said, what is the quality of the instruction libraries are providing face-to-face and online? How sound are the pedagogical principles upon which the instruction is based? How effective is the instruction? How are libraries assessing the value of the instruction and the determining if actual learning has occurred? What do students attending a typical library instruction session learn? How can we design instruction to focus on higher levels of learning? I hope to begin to answer at least some of these questions as I read and evaluate the published literature.