Replication Data for: Knowing and doing: The development of information literacy measures to assess knowledge and practice (doi:10.18710/L60VDI)

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Replication Data for: Knowing and doing: The development of information literacy measures to assess knowledge and practice

doi:10.18710/L60VDI

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2020-11-13

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Nierenberg, Ellen; Låg, Torstein; Dahl, Tove I., 2020, "Replication Data for: Knowing and doing: The development of information literacy measures to assess knowledge and practice", https://doi.org/10.18710/L60VDI, DataverseNO, V2

Replication Data for: Knowing and doing: The development of information literacy measures to assess knowledge and practice

doi:10.18710/L60VDI

Nierenberg, Ellen (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)

Låg, Torstein (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)

Dahl, Tove I. (UiT The Arctic University of Norway)

UiT The Arctic University of Norway

IBM SPSS Statistics

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UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Nierenberg, Ellen

Nierenberg, Ellen

2020-11-09

https://doi.org/10.18710/L60VDI

Social Sciences, information literacy, quantitative assessment, knowing and doing, higher education, library and information science

This data set contains the replication data for the article "Knowing and doing: The development of information literacy measures to assess knowledge and practice." This article was published in the Journal of Information Literacy, in June 2021. The data was collected as part of the contact author's PhD research on information literacy (IL). One goal of this study is to assess students' levels of IL using three measures: 1) a 21-item IL test for assessing students' knowledge of three aspects of IL: evaluating sources, using sources, and seeking information. The test is multiple choice, with four alternative answers for each item. This test is a "KNOW-measure," intended to measure what students know. 2) a source-evaluation measure to assess students' abilities to critically evaluate information sources in practice. This is a "DO-measure," intended to measure what students do in practice, in actual assignments. 3) a source-use measure to assess students' abilities to use sources correctly when writing. This is a "DO-measure," intended to measure what students do in practice, in actual assignments. The data set contains survey results from 626 Norwegian and international students at three levels of higher education: bachelor, master's and PhD. The data was collected in Qualtrics from fall 2019 to spring 2020. In addition to the data set and this README file, two other files are available here: 1) test questions in the survey, including answer alternatives (IL_knowledge_tests.txt) 2) details of the assignment-based measures for assessing source evaluation and source use (Assignment_based_measures_assessing_IL_skills.txt)

Publication abstract: This study touches upon three major themes in the field of information literacy (IL): the assessment of IL, the association between IL knowledge and skills, and the dimensionality of the IL construct. Three quantitative measures were developed and tested with several samples of university students to assess knowledge and skills for core facets of IL. These measures are freely available, applicable across disciplines, and easy to administer. Results indicate they are likely to be reliable and support valid interpretations. By measuring both knowledge and practice, the tools indicated low to moderate correlations between what students know about IL, and what they actually do when evaluating and using sources in authentic, graded assignments. The study is unique in using actual coursework to compare knowing and doing regarding students’ evaluation and use of sources. It provides one of the most thorough documentations of the development and testing of IL assessment measures to date. Results also urge us to ask whether the source-focused components of IL – information seeking, source evaluation and source use – can be considered unidimensional constructs or sets of disparate and more loosely related components, and findings support their heterogeneity.

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undergraduate and graduate students

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Nierenberg, E., Låg, T, & Dahl, T. I. (2021). Knowing and doing: The development of information literacy measures to assess knowledge and practice. Journal of Information Literacy, 15(2), 78–123.

10.11645/15.2.2795

Nierenberg, E., Låg, T, & Dahl, T. I. (2021). Knowing and doing: The development of information literacy measures to assess knowledge and practice. Journal of Information Literacy, 15(2), 78–123.

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01_README_file_KnowingAndDoing.txt

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This file is necessary to understand the other files.

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Assignment_based_measures_for_assessing_IL_skills.pdf

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This file describes the two assignment-based measures that were used to measure students' information literacy skills: 1) source evaluation measure; 2) source use measure. These measures were designed to assess students' skills in practice, using authentic assignments, when evaluating and using information sources.

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DataFile_KnowingAndDoing.txt

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This data file contains the replication data for the article "Knowing and doing: The development of information literacy measures to assess knowledge and practice." The file includes data collected from three measures: 1) a 21-item IL test for assessing students' knowledge of three aspects of IL: evaluating sources, using sources, and seeking information. 2) a source-evaluation measure to assess students' abilities to critically evaluate information sources in practice. 3) a source-use measure to assess students' abilities to use sources correctly when writing. Respondents were 626 Norwegian and international students at three levels of higher education: bachelor, master's and PhD.

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Exploratory_factor_analyses.pdf

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Exploratory factor analyses on the information literacy (IL) test items (pilot and pretest samples) and on the complete IL test (undergraduate and graduate samples). Includes scree plots and factor loadings for different factor solutions.

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IL_knowledge_tests.pdf

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This file contains the final 21-item information literacy tests, including questions and answer alternatives, in both English and Norwegian. The 50-item pilot test, in Norwegian, is also included.

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