Human Connections in a Digital World

As instructors find ways to integrate generative AI into their assignments, practical tools are needed for evaluating how students are engaging with AI throughout the process. Information literacy provides a useful framework for teaching and evaluating students’ critical thinking while using AI for disciplinary assignments. Presenters will introduce the AAC&U Information Literacy VALUE Rubric, describe how it is relevant to AI-assisted workflows, and demonstrate how it can be adapted to specific course assignments with emphasis on assignment-specific evaluation questions. The rubric's utility and insight will be demonstrated with findings from an application in a first-year engineering programming course. Then, following a backwards-design framework, participants will consider information-literacy learning objectives relevant to an AI-integrated assignment in their own course, and will start to develop their own evaluation questions. At the end of the session, participants will generate a list of next steps to begin assessing AI workflows in their courses.