title: Use of a pre-assessment tool to start a meaningful dialogue: new paradigms in library instruction.
abstract: In 2009, the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library started a library instruction dialogue with the medical students and faculty from the Emory School of Medicine. These discussions exposed a gap among faculty, students, and librarians in their perceptions of information processing. Follow-ups with the Associate Deans for Student Affairs and Medical Education led to the decision to administer an online assessment of the incoming student body and a complete redesign of the library orientation program. The aim of using self-assessment methodology in the framework of an orientation program was to set the students' foundation for self-discovery and introduce them to self-learning.
authors.affiliation: Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. agetsel@emory.edu
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Getselman
authors.forename: Mia S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005845:Georgia; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D007993:Libraries, Medical; D012647:Self-Assessment