NCLA Con 2025

In this session, we will discuss and demonstrate how we implemented a sustainable, programmatic approach to student learning assessment across the curriculum at Elon University. Attendees will address the nuances in creating and developing an assessment plan appropriate to their institution. Participants will learn how to work within their own unique cultural contexts, create ownership of assessment efforts among library staff, and take away strategies for creating their own student learning assessment plan. Student learning is the focus of everything we do. Investing in a sustainable student learning assessment plan allows us to reflect and respond in our instruction across all levels to the evolving needs of our students. At Elon, we launched our assessment program with the hire of the new Assessment & User Experience Librarian. In the last academic year, our priority was to establish a student learning assessment plan and create a community of practice where all library instructors are committed to providing evidence of student learning. We hope to use this data to make necessary, positive changes to our instruction methods, advocate for our library instruction program, and collaborate with each other and teaching faculty colleagues in unique ways as a result of our focused approach to library instruction and assessment. We hope to accomplish the following three things during our session: Share our evolving student learning assessment story at Elon; Engage participants in an activity where they reflect on their unique institutional assessment culture with a focus on student learning; Through discussion, everyone can share potential next steps and how they can effectively make an impact on their own institutional cultures of assessment.