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Of the 82 libraries with user orientation courses, 33 replied that they had carried out some type of evaluation (40%). In 20 cases evaluation had been carried out by means of informal discussion with students and or academic staff. 10 libraries had made use of a questionnaire or survey method of evaluation ; three had used assessment of exercises and one had made use of observation methods of evaluation.4 libraries stated that they planned to carry out evaluation of their orientation programme.
76 libraries gave courses in manual information retrieval. 45 libraries stated that they had carry out some form of evaluation (59%). Informal discussion or appraisal was again a common method of evaluation – in 23 perpustakaan , but the same number (23) made use of assessment of practical exercise to evaluate the success of the instruction given. 16 libraries had used surveys or questionnaires in connection with their courses. A number of libraries had tried to evaluate by serial methods ; for example , Swinburne had carried out a detailed evaluation of their programmes. Burwood state College is carrying out a detailed evaluation with a group of second year students. Half this group were randomly selected and given instruction in the use of indexes, abstracts, report writing, etc, whereas the other half receved no such instruction . it is planned to compare the quality of the major assignments of the 2 groups. The Western Australian Institute of Technology has always had a strong commitment to formal user education programmes at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. In the first term of 1981 some 1850 students took part in 42 Reader Educaton programmes. An attempt has been made to evaluate 12 of the 1981 user education programmes by using student opinion questionnaire developed by the Education Development Centre at WAIT. A preliminary analysis of the responses of first year student showed that they ‘responded very positively to the presentation and content of the sessions and favoured the inclusion of a library component as an integral part of their courses’. Non-science students were much more positive than science students. Many students stated that the instruction “helped give them a positive attitude to using the library”. Generally those courses which had more mature age students or where more advanced material was discussed were consided less boring by their participants”. A more detailed account of the findings of the WAIT evaluation will be of interest to other libraries with reader education programmes. At the university of New South Wales there is an interesting on going evaluation of the reader education programme being carried out with the help of the other things, illuminative evaluation, with an attempt to find out how the participants students and teachers really experience the courses, Caulfield Institute of Technology , which has a strong commitment to reader education, is planning an evaluation of the various components of the programme in the near future.
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