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The University of Illinois Chicago Library aims to enhance librarians’ knowledge, skills, and applications in assessing student success and library experiences, utilizing an assessment tool developed by the project team in previously funded IMLS work. During the first year, the project team will develop, deliver, and facilitate a workshop series to enhance librarians’ proficiency in using assessment tools through enriched learning experiences. After completing the workshop series in the first year and the implementation project in the second year, participants will become ambassadors for a student success assessment project.
The University of Illinois Chicago Library is conducting research to answer questions relating to how student demographics play a role in how they engage in academic activities, including their use of the library; how students’ psychological factors relate to their academic engagement; how students define their academic success and how they view the library’s contribution to their success; what factors correlate with students’ GPA and their own definition of academic success; and how libraries can utilize assessment tools to examine academic engagement and success and apply the findings. The research project team is creating tools and research that will be available for dissemination to academic libraries to assess the impact of their library on student success and to further support and address students’ needs and/or academic libraries. The assessment tools and datasets developed by the research team will be publicly available in summer 2024 via the Project Website.