[LM_NET] NYT article on testing information literacy

[SBrisco <sbrisco021@CHARTER.NET>]

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  Since we've been discussing literacy (and the lack of it) at the university 
level, here's an interesting piece from the NYT yesterday that discusses the 
development (and implementation) of a new "information literacy test" for entering 
college students.  It's being developed by ETS (the same people who do the SAT and 
the GRE...etc.)

  Read more about it and wonder if librarians have really "missed the boat" by NOT 
charging for individualized instruction for some of this stuff!!


  Measuring Literacy in a World Gone Digital
  By TOM ZELLER Jr.
  The Educational Testing Service has developed a new test that it says can assess 
technology literacy.
  
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/17/technology/17test.html?th=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1106074851-hzzGx4TKfCUJ62oOzOhy0w


  ~Shonda Brisco
  Trinity Valley MS /US Librarian
  Fort Worth, TX
  sbrisco021@charter.net

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