TY - GEN
T1 - National Information Literacy Survey of Primary and Secondary School Students in Singapore - A Pilot Study
AU - Mokhtar, Intan Azura
AU - Chang, Yun Ke
AU - Majid, Shaheen
AU - Foo, Schubert
AU - Theng, Yin Leng
AU - Zhang, Xue
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The National Library Board (NLB) and Ministry of Education (MOE) in Singapore have collaborated to carry out a National Information Literacy (IL) Program for primary and secondary school students. The program involves developing a curriculum framework that can be introduced in specific school subjects where IL competencies can be nurtured. Surveys were developed to identify students' IL strengths and weaknesses and guide relevant intervention planning and implementation. IL academics from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, were involved in formulating the proposed IL model for schools, curriculum framework, as well as in reviewing and assessing the findings of the surveys. At this point, the survey instrument has been formulated and a pilot test of the instrument has been administered to more than 70 primary school students and about 20 secondary school students. This paper shares the main analyses of the pilot survey, according to the proposed model for IL for Singapore schools.
AB - The National Library Board (NLB) and Ministry of Education (MOE) in Singapore have collaborated to carry out a National Information Literacy (IL) Program for primary and secondary school students. The program involves developing a curriculum framework that can be introduced in specific school subjects where IL competencies can be nurtured. Surveys were developed to identify students' IL strengths and weaknesses and guide relevant intervention planning and implementation. IL academics from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, were involved in formulating the proposed IL model for schools, curriculum framework, as well as in reviewing and assessing the findings of the surveys. At this point, the survey instrument has been formulated and a pilot test of the instrument has been administered to more than 70 primary school students and about 20 secondary school students. This paper shares the main analyses of the pilot survey, according to the proposed model for IL for Singapore schools.
KW - information literacy
KW - primary school students
KW - secondary school students
KW - Singapore
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0_65
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0_65
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904728859
SN - 9783319039183
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 485
EP - 491
BT - Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice - European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2013, Revised Selected Papers
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 1st European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2013
Y2 - 22 October 2013 through 25 October 2013
ER -