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PUBLICATIONS

 
            Unpublished dissertation:

 

Beile O’Neil, Penny M.  (2005).  Development and Validation of the Beile Test of Information Literacy for Education (B-TILED).  College of Education, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.  PDF

Books and chapters in books:

Beile, Penny.  (2009).  Measuring Information Literacy Skills in Education:  Development and Validation of a Standards-based Assessment Scale.  VDM Verlag Dr. Muller:  Saarbrucken, Germany.

Beile, Penny M.  (2007).  “Assessing an Institution-wide Information Fluency Program:  Commitment, Plan, and Purposes,” in Scott Walter (Ed.), The Teaching Library:  Approaches to Assessing Information Literacy Instruction. Haworth: Binghampton, NY. 

 

Beile, Penny M.  (2004).  "The Development and Use of a Web-based Library Tutorial for Education Students," in Patricia Libutti (Ed.), Digital Resources and Education Libraries: Innovation, Invention, and Implementation.  ACRL: Chicago, IL.

 
            Articles in refereed journals, refereed bulletins, and refereed proceedings:

 

Brasley, Stephanie, Penny Beile, and Irv Katz.  (2009).  "Assessing Information Competence of Students using iSkills:  A Commercially-available, Standardized Instrument," in S. Hiller et al (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2008 Library Assessment Conference (pp. 105-114).  Washington, DC:  ARL.

Beile, Penny M. (2008).  “Information Literacy Assessment:  A Review of Objective and Interpretive Measures,” in K. McFerrin et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (pp. 1860-1867). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

 

Beile, Penny M.  “Assessing an Institution-wide Information Fluency Program:  Commitment, Plan, and Purposes,” Public Services Quarterly 3(1/2), (October 2007):  127-146.  [Invited]
Co-published as a chapter in The Teaching Library, which is listed under A. (2) Books and chapters in book.

 

Beile, Penny M. “The ILAS-ED: A Standards-Based Instrument for Assessing Pre-Service Teachers’ Information Literacy Levels,” in C. Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (pp. 1250-1256). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

 

Boote, David N. and Penny M. Beile.  “On Literature Reviews of, and for, Educational Research:” A Response to the Critique by Joseph Maxwell.”  Educational Researcher 35(9), (December 2006):  32-35.  [Invited rejoinder]   PDF

 

Boote, David N. and Penny M. Beile.  “Scholars before Researchers: On the Centrality of the Dissertation Literature Review in Research Preparation.”  Educational Researcher 34(6), (August/September 2005):  3-15.  [Featured Article]   PDF

Republished in ICFAI Journal of Higher Education.  [India]

 

Beile, Penny M., David N. Boote, and Elizabeth K. Killingsworth.  “A Microscope or a Mirror?:  A Question of Study Validity Regarding the Use of Dissertation Citation Analysis for Evaluating Research Collections (in Education).” Journal of Academic Librarianship 30(5), (September 2004): 347-353. 

 

Beile, Penny M. and David N. Boote.  “Does the Medium Matter?:  A Comparison of a Web-based Tutorial with Face-to-Face Library Instruction with Education Students,”  Research Strategies, vol. 20(1/2), (Spring 2004):  57-68.

 

Beile, Penny M.  "Effectiveness of Course-Integrated and Repeated Library Instruction on Library Skills of Education Students."  Journal of Educational Media and Library Sciences 40(3), (March 2003):  271-277.

           

Beile, Penny M. and David N. Boote.  "Library Instruction and Graduate Professional Development: Exploring the Effect of Learning Environments on Self-efficacy and Learning Outcomes."  Alberta Journal of Educational Research 68(4), (Winter 2002): 364-367. [Research Note]

 

Beile, Penny M. and Megan M. Adams.  “Other Duties as Assigned: Emerging Trends in the Academic Library Job Market.”  College and Research Libraries 61, (July 2000): 336-347.

 

Beile, Penny M.  "Great Expectations: Competency-Based Training for Student Media Center Assistants."    MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship 5(2), (1997). 
URL:  http://wings.buffalo.edu/publications/mcjrnl/v5n2/   PDF

Other:

            Beile, Penny M.  Information Literacy Assessment:  A Review of Objective and Interpretive 
            Measures, on http://ilassessments.pbwiki.com/, March 2008.   

Beile, Penny M.  Development and Validation of the Information Literacy Assessment Scale for Education (ILAS-ED), by Resources in Education, Education Resources Information Center, April 2005 (ED490206). 

 

Beile, Penny M. and David N. Boote.  Characteristics of Education Doctoral Dissertation References: An Inter-Institutional Analysis of Review of Literature Citations, by Resources in Education, Education Resources Information Center, March 2004 (ED478598). 

 

Beile, Penny M. and David N. Boote.  The Effect of Library Instruction Learning Environments on Self-Efficacy Levels and Learning Outcomes for Students of Education, by Resources in Education, Education Resources Information Center database, April 2002 (ED465331).

 

Atkins, David and Penny M. Beile.  Louisiana Academic Library Statistics 1994: Selected Statistics from the 1994 IPEDS Survey of Academic Libraries.  Baton Rouge: LSU Libraries, 1995.  Publication distributed to all Louisiana academic libraries.  Published by Resources in Education, Education Resources Information Center database, November 1995 (ED384361). 

 

Beile, Penny M.  Numerous committee and section chair reports and articles from 2000 to present, Education and Behavioral Sciences Newsletter.  URL:  http://www.pla.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/ebss/ebssnewsletter/newsletter.cfm

Accepted for publication:

 

Beile, Penny M.  (2009).  “Content Analysis:  De-Constructing Intellectual Packages,” accepted for publication in Doug Cook and Lesley Farmer (Eds.), Observe, Reflect, Act:  A Primer on Applied Qualitative Research by Librarians.  ACRL:  Chicago, IL.

  

Acknowledgements:

 

Boster, James S.  “The Information Economy Model Applied to Biological Similarity Judgment.”  In Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition, edited by Lauren B. Resnick, John M. Levine, and Stephanie D. Teasley.  Washington, D.C.:  APA, 1991.  (Note:  My contribution to this publication was in the capacity of research assistant for the Kentucky bird study.  This is recognized by the author in the acknowledgements.) 

 

Boster, James S.  “Agreement between Biological Classification Systems is not Dependent on Cultural Transmission.”  American Anthropologist, New Series, 89(4), (Dec., 1987):  914-920.  (Note:  My contribution to this publication was in the capacity of research assistant for the Kentucky bird study.  This is recognized by the author in the acknowledgements.) 

 

OTHER SCHOLARLY/RESEARCH/CREATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS

 

            Papers Presented at Professional Meetings:

 

Librarian/Scholar: From Research Question to Results, (invited speaker) with Peter Hernon, Simmons College and Robert Labaree, University of Southern California, delivered at the American Library Association Annual Conference for the Education and Behavioral Sciences Section program, Chicago, IL, July 2009.

Building a Reflective, Recursive, Sustainable Assessment Culture for the QEP, with Charles Dzuiban, Irv Katz, and Martha Marinara, panel presentation at the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) 2008 Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, December 2008.

 

Restructuring a Doctoral Program in Education:  Outcome of an Evaluation of Dissertation Bibliographies, presentation requested by coordinators of the UNESCO Training the Trainers Information Literacy Workshop, Ankara, Turkey, September 2008.

 

Assessing Information Competence of Students using iSkills:  A Commercially-available, Standardized Instrument, with Stephanie Brasley and Irv Katz, delivered at the 2008 Library Assessment Conference, Seattle, WA, August 2008.

 

Is there a Right to Information Literacy?  Academic Responsibility in the Information Age, [invited speaker] with Dr. Pat Stanley, Dr. Lori Roth, and Stephanie Brasley, delivered at the American Library Association Annual Conference for the ACRL Committee on Ethics, Anaheim, CA, June 2008.

 

Information Literacy Assessment:  A Review of Objective and Interpretive Measures, delivered at the Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE) Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, March 2008. 

 

Factors that Contribute to Students’ Information Literacy Skills:  The Role of the Academic Faculty, delivered at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2007.

 

The Changing Face of Scholarly Communication for Educators:  New Skills, Issues, and Models for Publishing, with Kay Buchanan, University of Virginia, and Kate Corby, Michigan State University, delivered at the Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE) Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 2007.  [Keynote panel]

 

The ILAS-ED:  A Standards-based Instrument for Assessing Pre-service Teachers’ Information Literacy Levels, delivered at the Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE) Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 2007.

 

Get Organized.  Get Scholarly.  Get Done.  With Rebecca Fiedler, Florida Institute of Technology, delivered at the Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE) Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 2007.

 

A Multiple Methods Approach for Assessing Information Literacy:  Credible, Outcomes-based, and Accreditation Amenable, delivered at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, April 2006.

 

Development and Validation of a Standards-based Instrument for Assessing Pre-service Teachers’ Information Literacy Levels, delivered at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Montreal, CN, April 2005.

 

The Quality of Dissertation Literature Reviews:  A Missing Link in Professional Preparation, with David N. Boote, delivered at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, April 2004.

 

Characteristics of Education Doctoral Dissertation References:  Results of an Analysis of Dissertation Citations from Three Institutions, with David N. Boote and Elizabeth K. Killingsworth, delivered at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2003. 

Also presented at the UCF Graduate Research Forum, Orlando, FL, March, 2004.

 

The Effect of Library Instruction Learning Environments on Self-Efficacy Levels and Learning Outcomes for Students of Education, delivered at the American Educational Research Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 2002.  

 

Get Hired!: How to Get the Job You Want, with Megan M. Adams, delivered at the Louisiana Library Association Annual Conference, Shreveport, LA, March 1998.

 

Teaching and Learning at a Distance, delivered at the Louisiana Board of Regents Distance Education Initiative, Baton Rouge, LA, February 1998.

 

The 1995 LSU Reference Survey and National Level Statistics Gathering Efforts, with David Atkins, delivered at the Louisiana Library Association Annual Conference, Alexandria, LA, March 1996.

            Presentations at Professional Meetings, other than Papers:

           

Increase Your Productivity!:  Technology Tools for Scholarship and Collaboration, with Rebecca Fiedler and Andy Tinkham, presented as workshop at the 2006 Annual Conference of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Dallas, TX, October 2006.

 

Writing Tools for Grown-ups!  With Rebecca Fiedler, presented as a workshop at the 2005 Florida Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, October 2005.

 

Making it Exciting:  Integrating Curriculum Materials into Your (Students) Teaching, presented as a workshop at the 2005 Florida Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, October 2005.  This program was one part of a two-part program with John Prevosk, which was titled A Win-Win Situation:  The UCF Partnership with SUNLINK and the Library.

 

Building a Discipline-Specific Web Tutorial, with Jacqueline Toce, presented as a poster session at the Annual Conference of the American Library Association, Atlanta, GA, June 2002.

 

Underpaid?  Under-employed?  Under-appreciated?: The Systems Approach to Job Hunting, with Megan Adams, presented as a poster session at the Annual Conference of the American Library Association, San Francisco, CA, June 1997.

 

Building Conference Web Sites: A Virtual Tour of Lexington, KY, with Steven Harris, presented as a poster session at the Biennial Conference of Southeastern Library Association, Lexington, KY, October 1996, tour used as the official conference site.

           

            Other Presentations:

 

Information Literacy Assessment on the UCF Campus.  Information Literacy and Outreach Department-sponsored presentation to UCF library faculty, October 2008.

 

IRB for Librarians.  Mentoring Committee-sponsored presentation to UCF library faculty, June 2006.

 

Scholarship Opportunities with Information Literacy.  Mentoring Committee-sponsored presentation to UCF library faculty, November 2006.

 

Overview and Use of Educational Testing Service’s ICT Assessment, iSkills.  Presented at the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning’s winter workshop, December 2006. 

 

Designing Effective Displays.  Presented, with Nicole Sotak, to the UCF Student Chapter of the Florida Education Association (SFEA), October 2004.

 

            Bulletin Boards that Teach.  Presented to the Association of Childhood Educators International, UCF 
            Student Chapter, October 2000, October 2003, and September 2005.