TY - JOUR AU - Gidakovic, Sanja AU - Putnam, Janice AU - Doyle, Karen PY - 2022/02/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Assessing Faculty-Librarian Instructional Collaboration and Health Literacy in Health Studies Student Learning Outcomes JF - American Journal of Health Studies JA - AJHS VL - 36 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://amjhealthstudies.com/index.php/ajhs/article/view/676 SP - AB - <p>Background: Health Science instruction has a foundation of scholarly literature for online Faculty-Librarian Instructional Collaborations (FLIC), but gaps still exist in the evidence-base in the Health&nbsp;Studies field. Purpose:The purpose of this study was to describe how the FLIC collaboration worked and&nbsp;to describe the success of the collaboration in terms of the assessment process, how the collaboration influenced learning outcomes, and lessons learned about team growth and the meaning of the experience.&nbsp;Methods: The study used an exploratory mixed-methods design. The researchers operationalized successful&nbsp;collaboration as (1) successful student learning outcomes, (2) team growth, and (3) a meaningful experience. The FLIC instruction took place in an online, baccalaureate-level Global Health course. The FLIC&nbsp;collaboration included credibility of resources skill activities designed by the librarian and global health&nbsp;country comparison activities (which required the evaluation of the credibility of resources) designed by&nbsp;the Health Studies faculty. Results: The study had a 72% response rate (n=13). The learning outcome was&nbsp;met at 100%. Student learning outcome weaknesses included not summarizing the significance of the&nbsp;data or crediting sources (average points earned 1.24/1.50), and low professionalism in the presentation&nbsp;(average points earned 2.77/3). Team building and the quality of the experience were related to macro&nbsp;and micro-level barriers and facilitators. Quality improvement implications support the importance of&nbsp;faculty-librarian instructional collaboration using the FLIC strategy in Health Studies Programs.</p> ER -