Example Outcomes and Outcome Indicators



Example Outcomes and Indicators for Various Programs

These are illustrative examples only. Programs need to identify their own outcomes and indicators, matched to and based on their own experiences and missions and the input of their staff, volunteers, participants, and others.

|Type of Program |Outcome |Indicator(s) |

|Information Literacy |Students will be able to evaluate |Number and percent of students who score 10 or higher on the Information Literacy |

|Skills |websites for suitability to their |Assessment Tool. |

| |research needs. | |

|Information Literacy |Students will be able to use |Number and percent of students who integrate information through quotations or |

|Skills |websites suitable to their |paraphrases appropriately into a product. |

| |research needs. | |

|Information Literacy |Students will be able to develop |Number and percent of students who report successful information searches. |

|Skills |and articulate appropriate | |

| |questions for research. | |

|Information Literacy |Students will be able to identify |Number and percent of students who score 80% or higher on information scavenger |

|Skills |the key attributes of “credible” |hunts. |

| |information resources, in both | |

| |print and electronic form. | |

|Reading Improvements |Students will be able to match |Number and percent of students who use successful use books to answer a question. |

| |their reading ability with an | |

| |appropriate information resource. | |

|Reading Improvements |Students will increase their |Number and percent of students who improve their reading skills from one grading |

| |reading fluency and comprehension.|period to the next. |

|Reading Improvement |ESL students become proficient in |Number and percent of students who demonstrate increase in ability to read, write, |

| |English. |and speak English by the end of the program. |

|Reading Improvement |Students will increase their |Number and percent of students who read for at least one hour each day. |

| |leisure time reading for | |

| |enjoyment. | |

|Reading Improvement |Students will expand their reading|Number and percent of students who borrow nonfiction items from the school library.|

| |selections to include | |

| |non-narrative expository text. | |

|Reading Improvement |Students will improve their |Number and percent of students who score higher on standardized tests. |

| |vocabulary development and | |

| |language skills. | |

|Reading Improvement |Middle school students will |Number and percent of students who read progressively more challenging literature. |

| |increase their reading literacy | |

| |skills | |

|Electronic Resources |Students will be better able to |Number and percent of students who correctly identify appropriate databases for a |

| |use the Internet to find |given CULP project topic. |

| |appropriate sources for | |

| |information. | |

|Electronic Resources |Students will be better able to |Number and percent of students who report feeling at least 50% more at ease with |

| |use subscription databases in |using online resources. |

| |order to find information. | |

|Electronic Resources |Students will be able to discern |Number and percent of students who use 60% of the information they obtain through |

| |how best to use the ProQuest |ProQuest. |

| |database for their research. | |

|Electronic Resources |Students will increase usage of |Number and percent of students who remotely access their library’s online catalog. |

| |their library’s online catalog. | |

|Electronic Resources |Students will be able to identify |Number and percent of students who successfully complete timed information |

| |the constraints and affordances of|searches. |

| |electronic media in relation to | |

| |other research tools. | |

|Partnership |Teachers will view the public |Number and percent of teachers who incorporate learning activities that require |

|Development |library as a resource for |independent information literacy activities by students at the public library. |

| |curriculum planning. | |

|Partnership |Parents will understand the |Number and percent of parents who report taking their child to the public library |

|Development |connection between the public and |to obtain the information needed to complete homework assignments. |

| |school libraries regarding their | |

| |student’s research needs. | |

|Partnership |Public librarians will better |Number and percent of public librarians who report greater satisfaction when |

|Development |understand the significance of |assisting students with their homework assignments. |

| |their roles as educators. | |

|Partnership |School library staff will increase|Number and percent of scheduled classroom visits to the school library. |

|Development |their communication with classroom| |

| |teachers about library resources. | |

|Partnership |Teacher-librarians will coordinate|Number and percent of jointly sponsored literary activities. |

|Development |reading advocacy activities, | |

| |including book talks and | |

| |literature loans, with the public | |

| |library staff. | |

|Providing |Public library staff will |Number and percent of public library staff who can summarize the main ideas and |

|Professional |demonstrate an increased awareness|requirements of EALRs. |

|Development |of EALRs. | |

|Providing |School library staff will be able |Number and percent of school library staff who can identify at least three new |

|Professional |to demonstrate to public library |topics for a culminating project and appropriately matched information sources. |

|Development |staff a connection between the | |

| |culminating project and student | |

| |research. | |

|Providing |School teachers and administrators|Number and percent of school teachers and administrators who report a greater |

|Professional |will recognize and value the |respect and use of the library. |

|Development |library as an appropriate place | |

| |for student learning. | |

|Providing |Public and school library staff |Number and percent of public and school library staff that correctly identify at |

|Professional |will demonstrate an increased |least 3 research models. |

|Development |awareness of research models. | |

|Providing |Teaching teams will invite school |Number and percent of collaboratively designed lesson plans by teachers, public and|

|Professional |and public library staff to |school library staff. |

|Development |interdisciplinary planning | |

| |meetings. | |

|Homework Help |Students will more easily and |Number and percent of students who complete their entire homework assignment at |

| |effectively be able to complete |least 95% of the time. |

| |their homework assignments. | |

|Homework Help |Students will find resources at |Number and percent of students who report that they successfully located useful |

| |the public library that help |information at the public library. |

| |complete their school homework | |

| |assignments. | |

|Homework Help |Students' academic performance |Number and percent of participants who earn better grades in the grading period |

| |improves. |following completion of the program than in the grading period immediately |

| | |preceding enrollment in the program. |

|Homework Help |Students will recognize public |Number and percent of students who thank public librarians. |

| |librarians as sources of | |

| |assistance in successfully | |

| |completing homework assignments. | |

| | | |

| | | |

|Homework Help |Teacher will increase their |Number and percent of teachers who visit the public library prior to completing |

| |awareness of public library |lesson plans. |

| |resources that support homework | |

| |assignments. | |

|Homework Help |Students will be able to access |Number and percent of students who use Live Homework Help available by subscription|

| |online homework assistance through|from the public library. |

| |the public library homepage. | |

|Homework Help |Students are provided with |Number and percent of students who utilize the service repeatedly over the course |

| |homework assistance that is |of the year. |

| |valuable and helpful. | |

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