Initial Development of the Perception of Information Literacy Scale (PILS)

Autor/inn/en	Doyle, Matthew; Foster, Britt; Yukhymenko-Lescroart, Mariya A.
Titel	Initial Development of the Perception of Information Literacy Scale (PILS)
Quelle	In: Communications in Information Literacy, 13 (2019) 2, S.205-227, Artikel 5 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1933-5954
Schlagwörter	Information Literacy; Test Construction; Attitude Measures; Academic Libraries; Graduate Students; Test Reliability; Test Validity; Student Attitudes; California (Fresno) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Informationskompetenz; Testaufbau; College; Colleges; University; Universities; Libary; Libraries; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Universität; Bibliothek; Hochschulbibliothek; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Testreliabilität; Testvalidität; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	The ACRL "Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education" has provided academic librarians a guiding document to facilitate the development of information literacy skills in students. Despite widespread adoption of the "Framework" in academic libraries, a lack of valid and reliable "Framework"-based scales for assessing students' knowledge practices and dispositions hinders further understanding of student information literacy. The current article describes the development and testing of the Perception of Information Literacy Scale (PILS). The participants in this study were 443 graduate students. The resulting scale is made up of 36 items that measure seven distinct constructs of information literacy. The subscales of the PILS had good estimates of internal consistency and showed evidence of convergent and discriminant validity. PILS allows academic librarians to measure how students perceive their own information literacy knowledge practices and dispositions and could be useful for outreach, instructional design, and assessment activities. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Communications in Information Literacy. e-mail: editors@comminfolit.org; Web site: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/comminfolit/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01