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Tiny Studies

Reports, stories and reflections from U-M Library assessment practitioners.
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Posts in Tiny Studies

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  • Jasmine Mae Pawlicki
Empathetic Assessment Strategies: A Conversational Approach to Navigating Ethos and Best Practices
How does one get valid data without traumatizing or alienating students and faculty in a trying time? According to this author, by taking an empathetic approach to planning and implementing an assessment project, you can minimize negative impacts to your community.
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  • Craig Smith
Approaches to Library Assessment Using Multiple Data Sources
This blog post presents how the use of multiple streams of data benefited two recent U-M Library studies. For example, one recent study merged survey data, U-M human resources data, and Library document delivery data to provide a very rich picture of how diverse groups on campus use and experience the Library’s document delivery service. Some advantages of joining multiple data sources in assessment projects are discussed in the context of the two example studies.
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  • Denise Leyton
Unseen: Exploring Users’ Campus Experience through Design Thinking (Part 3)
In three blog posts, the authors describe a multi-year library service design project. This last post describes the team’s prototyping and testing processes, and our resulting interactive exercise.
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  • Denise Leyton
Unseen: Exploring Users’ Campus Experience through Design Thinking (Part 2)
In three blog posts, the authors describe a multi-year library service design project. This second post describes the research process used to develop our user experience tool.
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  • Denise Leyton
Unseen: Exploring Users’ Campus Experience through Design Thinking (Part 1)
In three blog posts, the authors describe a multi-year library service design project. This first post describes the origins and goals of the assessment project.
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  • Jesus Ivan Espinoza
Applying a Critical Lens to Library Classroom Assessment
How do we begin applying a critical lens towards assessing library instruction? Recently U-M Library Instructor College and the The Feminist Pedagogy Reading Group discussed Maria Accardi’s book chapter "Teaching Against the Grain: Critical Assessment in the Library Classroom."
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  • Karen A Reiman-Sendi
Applying Iterative Design to Assessment
A project team charged with providing staff training activities approached the project assessment with an iterative design lens, allowing for responsive and timely development of multiple opportunities for staff engagement around organizational and personal change. The team tried out different assessment techniques related to the opportunities offered.
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  • Kat King
So, We’ve Got This Data… (Part 2)
Chances are the work processes you already have in place are generating data that you could be using to learn more about those processes. In this second blog post, the author continues to highlight steps for working with data that is generated by your daily tasks.
Line image of questions to ask about data: what do we want to know, what could data show, who do we want to show, why do we want to know, and what does the data represent.
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  • Kat King
So, We’ve Got This Data… (Part 1)
Chances are the work processes you already have in place are generating data that you could be using to learn more about those processes. In two blog posts, the author shares some steps for working with data that is generated by your daily tasks.
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  • Sheila Garcia
Para que mi Mamá lo Lea: Reflections on Building a Residency Capstone Project
What does it mean to evaluate assessment practices through a DEIA lens? Sheila Garcia, Resident Librarian in Learning and Teaching, shares her personal journey applying a critical lens to her capstone project that centers the experiences of undergraduate language brokers.