Each year librarians at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse teach a "one-shot" lesson in information literacy to 2000 students enrolled in an introductory communication studies course. Students attend the lesson in groups of about 25 in the library. Concerned about the quality of the experience, the librarians decided to make the lesson the subject of a lesson study. They wanted to better understand what students get out of the lesson and how to improve the experience so that students achieve proficiency in research skills and learn how to use libarary resources and services.
They presented their work, Lesson Study: An Experience in Collaborative Inquiry, at the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians in April 2007. They also published their lesson study, Teaching Library Information Literacy Skills to Students Enrolled in an Introductory Communication Course: A Collaborative Study in the UW System Teaching Forum.
Lesson Study is a way to engage in scholarly inquiry into teaching and student learning. What are the connections between lesson study and SoTL? See Lesson Study: Building the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning One Lesson at a Time presented at the 2006 Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Colloquium. 
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