Quantitative Assessment of Students' Library Skills and Attitudes

7. Conclusions

Our survey instrument is better suited to a larger test group than the one we had available during our study period.
Library instruction (either BI or RPC) generally improves knowledge about the library as well as attitudes about the library and library research.
Overall, RPC students are more confident about the library, the librarians, and their ability to use the library than their BI counterparts.
RPC students begin library instruction with a higher level of knowledge about the library AND a more positive attitude about the library than BI students.
Few increases for RPC students were statistically significant. This is probably due to the relatively small sample size (n=77), as well as the fact that RPC students started out with higher scores on the pre-test than BI students did.
Quantitative evaluation of individual instruction sessions (RPCs) may not be the best approach, since each session is unique.

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