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.

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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/).

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