The development and validation of the Information Literacy Test

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 229-236

  Cameron, Lynn ^a   Wise, Steven L ^a   Lottridge, Susan M ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34250853413     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.68.3.229     Document Type: Article

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1. American Library Association, Presidential Committee on Information Literacy. Final Report (Chicago: ALA, 1989) Available online from www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/whitepapers/presidential.htm. [Accessed 5 April 2007].
2. Association of College and Research Libraries, Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. (Chicago: ACRL, 2000).
3. Ilene F. Rockman, "Strengthening Connections Between Information, General Education, and Assessment Efforts," Library Trends, 51, no. 2 (Fall 2002): 185-98.
4. Ibid.; Kenneth R. Smith, "New Roles and Responsibilities for the University Library: Advancing Student Learning through Outcomes Assessment," Journal of Library Administration 35, no. 4 (2001): 29-36.
5. Robert E. Dugan and Peter Hernon, "Outcomes Assessment: Not Synonymous with Inputs and Outputs," Journal of Academic Librarianship 28, no. 6 (Nov. 2002): 376-80.
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9. Lisa O'Connor, Carolyn J. Radcliff, and Julie A. Gedeon, "Applying Systems Design and Item Response Theory to the Problem of Measuring Information Literacy Skills," College and Research Libraries 63, no. 6 (2002): 528-43. After we began our test development project, we became aware of Kent State University's Project SAILS, which is an IMLS-funded project to develop a standardized information literacy test. Project SAILS and the ILT are directed at meeting the same general need.
10. James Madison University, "General Education: The Human Community," in Undergraduate Catalog (Harrisonburg, Va.: JMU, 2005): 87.
11. Lynn Cameron and Rebecca Feind, "An Online Competency Test for Information Literacy: Development, Implementation, and Results," in Crossing the Divide: Proceedings of the Tenth National Conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries, March 15-18, 2001, Denver, Colorado, ed. Hugh A. Thompson (Chicago: ACRL, 2001), 213-18;
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13. Christine E. DeMars, Lynn Cameron, and T. Dary Erwin, "Information Literacy as Foundational: Determining Competence," JGE: The Journal of General Education 52, no. 4 (2003): 253-65.
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18. Steven L. Wise and Xiaojing Kong, "Response Time Effort: A New Measure of Examinee Motivation in Computer-Cased Tests," Applied Measurement in Education 18, no. 2 (2005): 163-83.
19. Lewis et al., "Bookmark Standard Setting Procedure."