The Handy 5: Planning and Assessing Integrated Information Skills and Instruction

Offers tactics and tools to aid in assessing students' progress based on a five-step model introduced by the Kansas Association of School Librarians in 2001 to provide a framework for planning learning activities and successful evaluation.

Shelia Blume is the school librarian at F.L. Schlagle High School in Unified School District 500, Kansas City, Kansas.
Carol Fox is a retired library media specialist and adjunct faculty member at Emporia State University School of Library and Information Management.
Jacqueline McMahon Lakin is an information management consultant for the Kansas State Department of Education in Topeka.
Betsy Losey is a retired elementary library media specialist who serves as chairman of the KASL Handy 5 Marketing Committee and is the editor for this edition.
Jan Stover is the school librarian at Highland Park Central Elementary School in Unified School District 501, Topeka, Kansas.