Give them what they want!Students’ wish lists for library instruction

Jackie Corinth - Librarian, Robert Morris University

Survey Genesis

Harvard Question?

One Minute Paper

Qualitative Research Design

An Ode to the Open-Ended Question

Survey Instrument

Survey Format

Two Demographic Questions:

1. Please check the best description of your current student status:

Underclassman - Upperclassman - Graduate Student - Other

2. What is your major?

One Open-Ended Question:

1. What is the one thing you know now about library/database/internet research that you wish you had learned earlier?

IRB Approval

Pilot Study

Data Analysis

Primary Theme: Databases

As resources: 22%

“Other” databases: 15%

Access: 9%

Searching techniques: 6%

Secondary Theme: ILL

Interlibrary loan: 15%

Practical Applications

Limitations

Sample

External Validity

Next Steps

Revising the Question

The Web-Based One Question Survey