Interdisciplinary collaboration: Embedded librarians

precipitating criminal justice student success

Erika BehlingChristopher Utecht

College of Lake County

Research in the Classroom

• What kinds of research-related activities are you doing in the classroom?

Research in the Classroom

• Could you raise the success level? By how much?

300%

What have we been doing?

• What IS an embedded librarian?

• Our Method

Why are we doing this?

• Benefits for Students

• Benefits for Chris

• Benefits for Erika

ResultsAcademic Honesty Violations by Semester

Student Success – Pre-Instruction F2F

79% failed to locate a resource suitable for the

brief

Student Success – Post-Instruction F2F

Success rate increased

300%

Student Success – Pre-Instruction Online

94% failed to locate a resource suitable for the

brief

Student Success – Post-Instruction Online

Success rate increased

400%

Where do we go from here? (threats and opportunities)

• Students: WIFM?• Time constraints• Assessing retention across courses• What works best / multiple methods?• More data, please!• Leading the horse to water

Questions?

• Thank you for attending!!