Crossing to Web-based Instruction: The Importance of Instructional Assessment

Abstract

Academic librarians have for some time used computer-assisted instruction for teaching basic information literacy skills at the undergraduate level. Now, experimentation with Web-based instruction is becoming increasingly popular. The importance of evaluating the success of information literacy instruction, regardless of the delivery method, is of great value to academic instruction librarians. One of the challenges of maintaining this value is how to continue evaluating information literacy instruction that uses Web-based tutorials. This paper examines the effectiveness of a Web-based information literacy tutorial in a computer literacy course at Eastern Washington University (EWU).