Assessing Information Competence of Students using iSkills: A Commercially-available, Standardized Instrument

Brasley, Stephanie, Beile, Penny and Katz, Irv Assessing Information Competence of Students using iSkills: A Commercially-available, Standardized Instrument., 2009 . In Library Assessment Conference, Seattle, Washington (US), 2008. [Conference paper]

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The iSkills instrument plays a key role in several assessment projects being conducted throughout the California State University (CSU) system and at the University of Central Florida (UCF). This paper, which supplements the 2008 Library Assessment Conference panel, is presented in three parts. The first section addresses the instrument’s purpose and development, and the latter sections detail how UCF and CSU are using iSkills to assess student learning and evaluate instructional efficacy.

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	iSkills; information literacy; assessment
Subjects:	C. Users, literacy and reading. > CB. User studies. C. Users, literacy and reading. > CD. User training, promotion, activities, education.
Depositing user:	Penny Beile
Date deposited:	04 Jul 2011
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:19
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/15860

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Katz, I. R. (2007). Testing information literacy in digital environments: ETS’s iSkills™ assessment. Information Technology and Libraries, 26(3), 3–12.

Tannenbaum, R. J., & Katz, I.R. (2008). Setting standards on the core and advanced iSkills™ assessments (ETS Research Memorandum No. RM-08-04). Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service. Available online at: http://www.ets.org/iskills/cutscores/.

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