ILS+and+ITC+Skills+Assessments

How do we know what students **know** and //**don't know**// when it comes to information literacy skills? Is it safe to say students are probably all over the map?

Here are several online assessment tools and articles to guide this conversation:


 * Online Tools:**
 * [|TRAILS -- Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills] -- Kent State University.
 * [|Test Your ILQ (Information Literacy Quotient)] -- Discovery Education
 * [|iSkills Assessment Overview] -- Education Testing Service
 * [|Project SAILS] - Standardized Assessment of Information Literacy Skills -- Kent State University and Institute of Museum and Library Services
 * [|ACRL -- Information Literacy]-- American Association of College and Research Libraries


 * Articles:**
 * [|iSkills and ITC Literacy Assessment: Building a Case for Collaboration between School and Academic Libraries] -- Alexius Smith //Macklin, Knowledge Quest on the Web//, May/June 2007.
 * [|Information Literacy, ICT, High School, and College Expectations]. Susan M. Allen. //Knowledge Quest on the Web//, May/June 2007.
 * [|What Do They Know? A Strategy for Assessing Critical Literacy]. Rhonda Morrissette. //Knowl//edge//Quest on the Web//, May/June 2007.
 * [|Training 21st Century Teachers: Where to Begin?] Ernie Cox. //KnowledgeQuest on the Web//, May/June 2007.


 * [|CILASS Student Blog: The Student Side of Inquiry-Based Learning] -- Tim Fiennes, 2 Jul 2007.