Few constituencies exist where it is more important to produce information literate individuals than teacher candidates, yet rarely is it suggested that practitioners entering the field are adequately prepared to teach and model information literacy to their students. As a result, information literacy has been established as a key outcome by a number of teacher education accrediting bodies and professional associations. Corollary to this initiative is the effort to develop valid instruments that assess information literacy skills. Yet, at the time of this dissertation, no rigorously reviewed instruments were uncovered that measure the information literacy skills levels of teacher candidates. The study describes the development and validation of the Beile Test of Information Literacy for Education (B-TILED). Funded in part by the Institute for Library and Information Literacy Education and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the study is part of a national initiative spear-headed by the Project for the Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (SAILS). Test content is based on nationally recognized standards from the International Society for Technology in Education and the Association of College and Research Libraries. Procedures designed to enhance the scale's validity were woven throughout its development. 172 teacher education students at a large, metropolitan university completed a protocol consisting of 22 test items and 13 demographic and self-percept items. This instrument can be used to inform curricular and instructional decisions and to provide evidence of institutional effectiveness for program reviews.

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Orientador: Helen de Castro Silva Casaro / Banca: Regina Célia Baptista Belluzzo / Banca: Elizete Vieira Vitorino / Resumo: A avaliação da competência informacional é um tema candente e pouco explorado no Brasil. Em âmbito internacional, existem instrumentos que verificam habilidades informacionais em diferentes contextos, que servem como um diagnóstico para o planejamento e aplicação de atividades de formação da competência informacional pelos bibliotecários e professores. Dentre eles, destacamos o Beile Test of Information Literacy for Education - B-TILED da University of Central Florida, o instrumento do Working Group on Library Instruction of the Subcommittee on Libraries of the Conference of Rectors and Principals of Quebec Universities - CREPUQ do Canadá, o Information Competency Proficiency Exam do projeto Bay Area Community Colleges Information Competency Assessment Project e o instrumento da universidade St. Olaf College The First Year Information Literacy in the Liberal Arts Assessment (FYILLAA) Project. Diante do exposto objetivamos, em um âmbito geral, analisar estes instrumentos. Em um contexto mais específico objetivamos identificar as habilidades informacionais abordadas; verificar os tipos de questões utilizadas; verificar orientações sobre a forma de análise dos resultados e relatórios gerados pelo sistema; comparar os resultados com a literatura; realizar um levantamento bibliográfico de artigos que tratam dos métodos e instrumentos que vêm sendo utilizados na avaliação da competência informacional; e desenvolver diretrizes para elaboração de instrumentos de avaliação da competência informacional para a educação superior no Brasil. A análise dos dados foi realizada utilizando-se a técnica de 'Análise de Conteúdo'. Os resultados demonstraram que os instrumentos focaram as habilidades relativas à identificação dos termos da necessidade informacional, à elaboração e construção de estratégias de buscas disponíveis no parâmetro dois... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The information literacy assessment is a burning issue although little explored in Brazil. In the context international, there are some instruments to verify information skills of different groups of people, they are a diagnose to plan and apply activities of information skill formation by librarians and teachers. Among them we highlight Beile Test of Information Literacy for Education - B-TILED of the University of Central Florida, the instrument of the Working Group on Library Instruction of the Subcommittee on Libraries of the Conference of Rectors and Principals of Quebec Universities - CREPUQ, from Canada, the Information Competency Proficiency Exam from the project Bay Area Community Colleges Information Competency Assessment Project, and the instrument from the St. Olaf College, The First Year Information Literacy in the Liberal Arts Assessment (FYILLAA) Project. In this manner, we aim at analyzing these instruments in a general scope. In a more specific context, we aim at identifying the information skills mentioned by each of them; the types of questions they use; the way of analyzing data; reports generated by the system; to comparate the results with literature, do bibliographic survey of articles dealing the methods and tools that have been used in information literacy assessment; and develop guidelines for developing assessment tools of information literacy for higher education. The analysis of data was carried out by using the Content Analysis technique. The results show the instruments were focused on the skills related to the identification of the terms of information need, to the formulation and construction of strategies to search available in the parameter two of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL); differentiation of sources (parameter one); evaluation and selection of information sources and selection of information on the theme to be researched... Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBibl / This study investigates the effectiveness of the information literacy education that Master of Business Administration (MBA) students receive at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB). The literature reveals that there is a growing trend worldwide to extend information literacy education to include graduate students. The study uses the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education Competencies as the theoretical framework together with Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process. Both process and formative evaluation was used in the study. A mixed method approach was applied to gather data for the study using a pre- and post-information literacy questionnaire, interviews with the information literacy facilitator and the research methodology lecturer and a rubric assessment of students’ group assignment. The information literacy intervention focuses mainly on ACRL Standard 1, with more emphasis on ACRL Standard 2. ACRL Standards 3, 4 and 5 were briefly mentioned as it was difficult to cover all the ACRL Standards adequately within a once-off information literacy session.The results of the study show that the information literacy intervention was successful in introducing students to some of the electronic resources which is one of the major objectives of the intervention. Students’ scores in the pre- and post-information literacy questionnaire and the group assignment were high. This could be an indication that the information literacy intervention was a success. The interviews with the information literacy facilitator and the research methodology lecturer reveal that little collaboration between the library and business academics is taking place. This lack of collaboration affects the quality of the information literacy education in terms of business academics input in the information literacy intervention and in terms of reinforcing information literacy outcomes in students’ assignments. One of the recommendations is that collaborative relationships should be developed between the library and business academics in order to develop an information literacy plan that will fully integrate information literacy within Masters’ courses.

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Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBibl / This study investigates the effectiveness of the information literacy education that Master of Business Administration (MBA) students receive at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB). The literature reveals that there is a growing trend worldwide to extend information literacy education to include graduate students. The study uses the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education Competencies as the theoretical framework together with Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process. Both process and formative evaluation was used in the study. A mixed method approach was applied to gather data for the study using a pre- and post-information literacy questionnaire, interviews with the information literacy facilitator and the research methodology lecturer and a rubric assessment of students’ group assignment. The information literacy intervention focuses mainly on ACRL Standard 1, with more emphasis on ACRL Standard 2. ACRL Standards 3, 4 and 5 were briefly mentioned as it was difficult to cover all the ACRL Standards adequately within a once-off information literacy session. The results of the study show that the information literacy intervention was successful in introducing students to some of the electronic resources which is one of the major objectives of the intervention. Students’ scores in the pre- and post-information literacy questionnaire and the group assignment were high. This could be an indication that the information literacy intervention was a success. The interviews with the information literacy facilitator and the research methodology lecturer reveal that little collaboration between the library and business academics is taking place. This lack of collaboration affects the quality of the information literacy education in terms of business academics input in the information literacy intervention and in terms of reinforcing information literacy outcomes in students’ assignments. One of the recommendations is that collaborative relationships should be developed between the library and business academics in order to develop an information literacy plan that will fully integrate information literacy within Masters’ courses.