Assessing information literacy: A case study of primary 5 students in Hong Kong

Assessing information literacy: A case study of primary 5 students in Hong Kong

• Chu, Samuel Kai Wah Division of Information and Technology Studies, University of Hong Kong

School Library Research, 15, 1-24, 2012

American Library Association

2012

• L Educational Measurement & Evaluation
  • LA Intelligence, Ability & Aptitude Tests
• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QC Primary Education

School Libraries Information Literacy Elementary School Students Reading Ability Reading Comprehension Gender Differences Case Studies

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Primary Education

This paper reports an exploratory investigation of the information-literacy levels of primary 5 students in Hong Kong. Factors such as gender and reading ability were also examined. Primary 5 students from four local schools completed a fourteen-item information-literacy assessment (ILA), which was adopted and modified from questions on the sixth-grade version of the Tool for Real-time Assessment of Information Literacy Skills (TRAILS). The ILA covered five TRAILS categories and three American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) IL standards to measure different aspects of information literacy. Reading ability was measured by questions from a local public test of reading comprehension. On average, the participants (n = 199) achieved a mean score of 9.12 (SD = 2.56), and most assessment items showed room for improvement. Female students (n = 97; 48.7 percent) scored higher on the ILA than their male counterparts (n = ProQuest: 102; 51.3 percent), suggesting female students' higher level of information literacy. Results also revealed a positive and significant relationship between students' information literacy and reading ability. These findings offer a preliminary understanding of the information literacy of children in Hong Kong.
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