Classroom assessment techniques (CATs) are learner-centered activities that engage students in learning and yield actionable assessment results. The CATs featured in this book are arranged by what they assess, i.e., prior knowledge and understanding, analysis and critical thinking, synthesis and creative thinking, application, attitudes and self-awareness, and learner reactions. Examples include the minute paper, preconception check, muddiest point, think-pair-share, opinion polls, and chain notes.

The Threshold Achievement Test for Information Literacy (TATIL) is a new multiple-choice test based on the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The test is still in beta, with four modules currently being field tested.

The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) has a topical add-on module entitled "Experiences with Information Literacy." The module was developed in collaboration with college and university librarians. It asks students about their use of information and how much their instructors emphasized the proper use of information sources. The module complements questions on the core survey about higher-order learning and how much writing students do.

Performance-based tasks and writing prompts that measure critical thinking and written communication skills. Addresses some information literacy skills. Administered online.

The Critical-thinking Assessment Test (CAT) was developed with input from faculty across a wide range of institutions and disciplines, with guidance from colleagues in the cognitive/learning sciences and assessment and with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The CAT Instrument is a 1-hour test scored by faculty, and it was designed to assess a broad range of critical thinking and real world problem solving skills. Questions are short answer essay responses. There is some overlap with information literacy.

The Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP) is a nationally-normed assessment program from ACT which measures outcomes of the general education programs at the end of the first 2 years of college.

The ETS® Proficiency Profile assesses four core skill areas: critical thinking, reading, writing, and mathematics--with a little bit of information literacy-- in a single test that the Voluntary System of Accountability (VSA) has selected as a gauge of general education outcomes. Option to add an essay to the ETS Proficiency Profile assessment is available as well as up to 50 locally authored questions. Fixed-choice questions, with a 40-minute version or a 2-hour version available. Cost is $12.50-$16.50 per student. 

 The Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (SAILS) test is a fixed-choice national test There are two forms of the SAILS information literacy test, one for individual test results, and one for groups (cohorts) of students. Both tests are based directly on the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Cost is $5 per student for the cohort test and $6 per student for the individual test.

Resources in science and engineering education from Richard Felder, Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University. Topics include student handouts, learning styles, and papers.

Provides link to 2014 UNESCO multilingual information literacy guide.

Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a large-scale, national study about early adults and how they find, evaluate, and select information for use in their courses and in everyday life. PIL conducts studies across different types of college campuses.

Rubric Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (RAILS) is an IMLS-funded research project designed to investigate an analytic rubric approach to information literacy assessment in higher education.  The RAILS project is intended to help academic librarians and disciplinary faculty assess information literacy outcomes. 

The Information Literacy Assessment & Advocacy Project (ILAAP) is an assessment tool designed to investigate the information literacy skills of first and second-year post-secondary students.

This collection of science information literacy resources is sponsored by the Science & Technology Section's Information Literacy committee. The Science & Technology Section (STS) is a section of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

This guide is intended to provide a place for librarians to find resources to guide their information literacy instruction for science students and faculty.

The Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and Educational Innovation brings pedagogical and technological resources together to support higher education.

Communications in Information Literacy (CIL) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to advancing research, theory, and practice in the area of information literacy in higher education. CIL is an independent, professional, and open access publication.

Blog from the ACRL Instruction Section's Research and Scholarship Committee that presents interviews with academic librarians and addresses the four topics covered in the ACRL Research Agenda for Library Instruction and Information Literacy: learners, teaching, organizational context, and assessment.