Using TRAILS in the Library

For this week's post, I am taking a look into the TRAILS tool created by Kent State University.
After creating a new account and it being verified by the creators, let the TRAILS begin!!

Perks of this site:

• There are assessments that are available and prepared to select from. 
• Available assessments include grade 3, 6, 9, and 12. 
• For each assessment group there are multiple assessment to select from. 
• The different assessments represent various assessments ranging from general to specific categories.
• Grade 9 and 12 assessments
• These assessments (the general assessments) serve as a great book end assessments to cater instruction for the 9-12 programs. 
• Test results are available following the assessments and shows the percentages of how many answered a question correctly and related information. 
• This allows for an accurate depiction of where a class is and where classes are as it related to information literacy. 
• Also there is a student by student breakdown for results. 
• Lastly, there is benchmark data!!

Not a bad resource that I plan to use in the future at my building.
The only concern that I have now is how to implement into my building. Finding the time to administer these assessments, and then using the data. When I say using the data, I mean to develop lessons that are available to the students since they do not have a set library instruction session. This is goal that I am going to be working to implement in the coming years. We will see how this goes.