1. Preliminary Results from the Fall 2008 INTD 105 Assessment Pretest vs. Posttest

17. Resources Used to find an article Pretest Percent Posttest Percent Multisearch 12% 30% Proquest 14% 27% JSTOR 7% 27% [Blank] 35% 16% WorldCat 1% 10% Health and Wellness Resource Center 5% 8% Pubmed 3% 8% CINAHL Plus with full text 2% 8% Academic Search Premier 1% 6% Google Scholar 3% 4% Journal Finder 1% 4% Ebsco 3% 3% Resources Used to find an article Pretest Percent Posttest Percent Advanced Multisearch 0% 3% ScienceDirect 0% 2% Medline 1% 1% Google 1% 1% Psycinfo 1% 1% Scopus 0% 1% SAGE journals online 2% 0% Search Engine 1% 0% medicine and health database 1% 0% www.findarticles.com 1% 0% resources from A-Z 1% 0% search 1% 0% Wikipedia 1% 0%

23. Challenge Pretest Posttest Notes Citation 6% 5% Determining appropriateness of source 12.0% 7.4% Often in conjunction with finding material Evaluation 4.0% 7.4% Sorting through search results, finding "relevant" material Finding articles/books/sources 20.0% 22.1% In the post-test, we are more likely to see students mention finding material "on a particular topic" or "on an obscure topic" Finding help 2.0% 0.5% Online or in person Finding print materials 2.0% 2.1% Sometimes finding print, sometimes finding things "in the library" Getting full text 0.0% 1.1% Frustration at getting full text when the student thinks it is available Information overload 3.0% 2.6% Internet searching 2.0% 0.5% Interpretation 0.0% 4.7% Interpreting the material they find. Finding information in long articles or books Item availability 0.0% 8.9% Frustration at the speed of IDS, lack of knowledge of how it works, inability to find things "here" Laziness 0.0% 2.1% Mostly expressed as a desire to find things quickly, one student admitted laziness No Answer 22.0% 8.4% Search strategy 5.0% 13.7% Mostly expressed as "keywords to use" Time 2.0% 1.1% Topic selection 0.0% 1.1% Using a database 1.0% 2.1% JSTOR and GLOCAT were mentioned specifically Where to start 8.0% 2.1% Which resource to use 11.0% 13.2%