ACRL

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Aligned with the nationally recognized Association of Colleges and Research Libraries (ACRL) Standards, the iSkills Assessments measures information literacy trough seven type tasks: define, access, evaluate, manage, integrate, create and communicate, representing a range of ways that students handle information through digital technology.

ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education are available on: https://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/ICT_Literacy/pdf/acrl_standards.pdf

Запрос

• Arranging personnel information into an organizational chart
• Asking questions of a professor that help disambiguate a vague research assignment
• Categorizing emails into appropriate folders based on a critical view of the emails contents
• Comparing advertisements, emails or websites from competing vendors by summarizing information into a table
• Conducting effective preliminary information searches to help frame a research statement
• Creating a data display to clarify the relationship between academic and economic variables
• Creating a presentation slide to support a position on a controversial topic
• Deciding the extent to which a collection of resources sufficiently covers a research area
• Deciding what types of resources might yield the most useful information for a particular need
• Designing a flyer to advertise to a distinct group of users
• Distinguishing a clear, concise and topical research question from poorly framed questions
• Editing and formatting a document according to a set of editorial specifications
• Efficiently browsing one or more resources to locate pertinent information
• Evaluating whether a database contains appropriately current and pertinent information
• Formatting a document to make it more useful to a particular group
• Generating and combining search terms
• Incorporating information from different sources to conduct a scientific experiment and report the results
• Judging the relative usefulness of provided web pages and online journal articles
• Placing results from an academic or sports tournament into a spreadsheet to clarify standings and decide the need for playoffs
• Selecting and organizing slides for distinct presentations to different audiences
• Sorting files, emails or database returns to clarify clusters of related information
• Transforming an email into a succinct presentation to meet an audience's needs