From now through the 20th,
the University Library will once again be administering the Standardized Assessment of Information
Literacy Skills (SAILS) to Samford undergraduate students. This will give
us a detailed snapshot of our students’ information literacy skills and will
help us to optimize our instructional efforts to meet areas of need. The library has previously administered the
SAILS survey in 2011 and 2014.
Students will be sent a link to the
survey via their Bulldog Mail e-mail account.
Those who choose to participate will be asked to answer some questions
about the various library and information resources they may use. At the conclusion of the test, they will have
the opportunity to enter our prize drawing. Prizes include a new iPad Mini 2
(32GB), two $50 Target gift cards and a $100 Amazon gift card.
This is an anonymous test; the researchers will not know the
identity of the students, and the information we gather will be reported to
others only in aggregate form, so no one will be able to identify the students
or their individual responses. Each student is assigned a randomly generated
identification number which may be used by Samford to confirm their
participation in this assessment. This number is not associated with their
names or other identifying information by Project SAILS and individual
responses will not be shared with the university.
It is our hope that all our students
who are contacted will allow their responses to the test to be used for this
Samford-approved research project.
If
you want to know more about this research, please email Lauren Young,
Instruction Coordinator here at the library.
If you
have questions about Samford University's rules for research, please contact
Dr. Drew Hataway, Assistant Professor of Biological and Environmental Sciences
and Chair of the University's Institutional Review Board.
