TUES: Information Literacy Skill Development & Assessment in Engineering (ILSDAE)

这个项目正在开发有用的评估工具，将提供一个更好地了解工程专业学生的自主学习技能和这些技能如何提高有效的措施。虽然有针对这些技能的评估工具，但其中大多数侧重于信息搜索技能，而不是信息素养。以前的努力来衡量信息素养技能的工程专业采用自我报告的措施，而不是学生技能的直接措施。该项目正在制定直接措施。 它是工程和图书馆学系之间的伙伴关系。该项目已经开发出了有前途的试点数据，并得到了普渡大学2020年工程师计划的种子资助。 两个评估工具进行了试点测试，心理测量评估，并比较一个更真实的（直接）信息素养的措施。 这些工具的有效性和可靠性的初步措施是有前途的。 需要进一步评价，以便更有力地测试这些仪器。 普渡大学、亚利桑那州立大学、阿肯色州大学和其他合作机构正在继续开发这两种工具和资源，目的是将完善的工具传播给更广泛的高等教育界。预计研究结果将指导教学模块的设计与学生的需求，在发展改进的信息素养技能。

This project is developing useful assessment tools that will provide a better understanding of engineering students' self-directed learning skills and a valid measure of how these skills improve. While there are assessment instruments that address these skills, most of them focus on information search skills rather than information literacy. Prior efforts to measure information literacy skills of engineering majors have employed self-report measures rather than direct measures of student skills. This project is developing direct measures. It is a partnership between the engineering and library science faculties. The project has developed promising pilot data, supported by a seed grant from the Purdue Engineer of 2020 program. Two assessment instruments have been pilot tested, psychometrically evaluated, and compared to a more authentic (direct) measure of information literacy. The resulting initial measures of validity and reliability for these instruments are promising. Further evaluation is necessary to test the instruments more robustly. The continued development of these two instruments and resources is being conducted at Purdue University, Arizona State University, the University of Arkansas, and other collaborating institutions, with the purpose that the polished instruments will be disseminated to the wider higher education community. It is anticipated that the research findings will guide the design of instructional modules aligned with student needs in developing improved information literacy skills.