Publications & Presentations

RAILS Publications

Oakleaf, Megan.  "Staying on Track with Rubric Assessment: Five Institutions Investigate Information Literacy Learning."  Peer Review. Winter 2012.

RAILS Presentations

"RAILS Results 1 Year Later: What We've Learned and Changed So Far"
Library Assessment Conference
Charlottesville, VA, October 2012 
poster presented by Jackie Belanger, Claire Holmes, Jenny Rushing  Mills, and Carroll Wilkinson
Winner of "People's Choice" and "Judge's Choice" Award!
Poster

"Project RAILS: Rubrics, Results, and Recommendations"
Library Assessment Conference
Charlottesville, VA, October 2012 
presented by Megan Oakleaf, Jenny Rushing Mills, and Jackie Belanger
PPT

"Happy RAILS to You! Using Rubrics for Authentic, Reliable, and Convincing Learning Assessments"
ALA Annual Conference
Anaheim, CA, June 2012
Poster

"A Multi-Institution Study of Rubric Assessment: Lessons Lived and Learned"
Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education Annual Conference
Albuquerque, NM, June 2012
PPT

"500 Students, 50 Raters, and 5 Rubrics Later: What We Learned from an Authentic, Collaborative, and National Assessment Project"
presented by Megan Oakleaf, Jackie Belanger, Ning Zou, Carroll Wilkinson
LOEX Conference
Columbus, Ohio, May 2012
PPT

"From Holistic to Analytic: Adapting VALUE Rubrics for Individual Campus Contexts"
presented by Megan Oakleaf, Jackie Belanger, Jametoria Burton, Jenny Mills, Carroll Wilkinson, Ning Zou
AAC&U General Education and Assessment: New Contexts, New Cultures
New Orleans, February 2012
PPT

“Off the RAILS! The Rubric Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (RAILS) Project at UW Bothell”
presented by Jackie Belanger, Amanda Hornby, Nia Lam, Danielle Rowland, Beth Sanderson
Joint Conference of the Washington and Oregon Association of College and Research Libraries
Pack Forest, WA, October 2011
LibGuide, PPT

"Getting Information Literacy on Track: The RAILS Project"
presented by Megan Oakleaf
9th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services
York, August 2011
PPT