The South Dakota Information Literacy Exam : A Tool for Small and Medium-sized Universities to Document and Assess Information Literacy of Undergraduate and Graduate Students
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2008
Keywords
information literacy assessment, graduate students, South Dakota Information Literacy Exam
Disciplines
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Information Literacy
Abstract
This paper describes the South Dakota state universities' development of a dual-measure instrument to test Information Literacy (IL) following the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education and using classical and modern psychometric methods. This tool can be used as an exit assessment for undergraduates and as an entrance assessment for advanced learners to indicate deficiencies in IL that must be addressed early in graduate education.
Publication Title
Advanced Users : Information Literacy and Customized Services
First Page
91
Last Page
114
ISSN
978-3-89318-053-0
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Leibiger, Carol A., and William E. Schweinle. “The South Dakota Information Literacy Exam : A Tool for Small and Medium-sized Universities to Document and Assess Information Literacy of Undergraduate and Graduate Students.” Konstanz Workshop on Information Literacy, 7-8 November, 2007, Konstanz, Germany, Presentation.
Comments
This is a conference presentation and a chapter in the conference proceedings.