Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2025
Publication Title
The Journal of Academic Librarianship
Abstract
Equity gaps are disparities in educational outcomes and access to opportunities that are rooted in systemic inequities. Higher education has been attentive to equity gaps in course grades, grade point average, and graduation and retention rates, but less so to gaps in specific academic outcomes. This study investigates how equity gaps can be measured in information literacy, a core academic competency, by conducting a case study using rubric scores of student papers. Various measures of equity gaps are employed and evaluated to provide guidance for future work in this area. While no equity gaps were identified in this sample, considerations for each of the methods are discussed.
Recommended Citation
Dahlen, Sarah P.C. and Hopkins Camp, Joy, "Equity gaps in information literacy: A case study and methodological exploration" (2025). Library Faculty Publications and Presentations. 19.
https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/lib_fac/19
Comments
Published in The Journal of Academic Librarianship by Elsevier Inc. Available via doi: 10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103119.
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).