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Postgraduate STEM support at Cranfield Defence and Security: Barrington Library

Mandy Smith

• Information Specialist Engineering and Research Support Coordinator

Ruth Knowles

• Information Specialist Science

Jessica Goff

• Information Specialist Mathematics and Information Systems

30 November 2017

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• Introduction to Cranfield Defence and Security

• Peer assessment presented by Mandy Smith

• Impact Case Study presented by Ruth Knowles

• Customer research at Barrington Library presented by

Jessica Goff

• Questions

Today’s session outline

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Introducing Cranfield Defence and Security

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Introducing peer-assessment to postgraduate STEM students

Mandy Smith

Information Specialist Engineering and Research Support Coordinator

m.j.smith@cranfield.ac.uk

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Why peer-assessment?

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Session 1

• Introduction to Library basics

• Plagiarism

• Referencing

Session 2

• Outline of assignment

• Introduction to peer-assessment and

evaluation

• Constructing the marking rubric

Session 3

• Search strategies, key resources

and applying techniques learned

How peer-assessment was delivered

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Presentation day

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Lessons learned and development of peer assessment

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Lessons learned

• Ensure that the learning objectives

are clearly defined and understood

• Referencing should be assessed by

the Librarian or Module Leader

• Do not provide your feedback until all

presentations have been delivered

Development of peer assessment

• Introduced to four other courses:

• Group presentations

• Essay format delivered using a

blended approach (useful for

part-time students where face-

to-face time is limited)

• Summative and formative

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Key benefits

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• Course Director – “exercise has helped to develop critical evaluation skills, especially with

respect to the source of information but also to think critically about the content”

• Learning from others – through exposure to other students’ work

• Timely feedback – students have immediate feedback and can employ lessons learned in their

very first assignment

• Marked improvement in referencing and the quality of sources cited

• Time saving

• Role of Librarian – perceived as an integral part of the teaching staff by students and faculty

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Measuring the impact of information literacy teaching in the Barrington Library

Ruth Knowles

Information Specialist

r.a.knowles@cranfield.ac.uk

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Customer Research

Daily reminders for

non-experts

Jessica Goff Information Specialist

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Goal Clarity, Role Clarity 2

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Don’t fear failure

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Better, not perfect 4

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Better, not perfect Still

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Write for action

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No expectations

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Questions –

we have some (3) for you!

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Do you or would you use peer assessment in your lessons?

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Do you measure the impact of your information literacy teaching?

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How many of your projects are driven by customer research?

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Any questions for us?

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