Based on experiences during one-shot instruction sessions, librarians at a public R1 institution collected questions from first year and transfer students during instruction sessions and coded the results in order to identify themes in content and types of questions. This presentation will describe the research project, the themes that emerged in the collected data, and how this informs future instruction and outreach. The ways in which this research was completed will be reviewed in order to assist attendees with doing similar work. The methodology of this research will also be presented to inspire other instruction librarians.
Participants will: 1. Identify trends in the data in order to inform instruction and outreach at their libraries. 2. Adapt the practice of asking students what they want to learn in an instruction session in order to encourage student engagement in learning
