Fortifying the Pipeline: A Quantitative Exploration of High School Factors Impacting the Information Literacy of First-Year College Students | Zendy

Jennifer L. Fabbi | Zendy

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Fortifying the Pipeline: A Quantitative Exploration of High School Factors Impacting the Information Literacy of First-Year College Students

Author(s) -

Jennifer L. Fabbi

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

college and research libraries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.886

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 2150-6701

pISSN - 0010-0870

DOI - 10.5860/crl.76.1.31

Subject(s) - information literacy , sample (material) , literacy , pipeline (software) , medical education , psychology , service (business) , information and communications technology , multilevel model , mathematics education , regression analysis , computer science , pedagogy , medicine , world wide web , business , chemistry , chromatography , marketing , machine learning , programming language

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between a sample of first-time college freshmen students’ high school experiences that are developmentally related to information literacy competency and their scores on the iSkills assessment. iSkills is an online evaluation developed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), which tests the range of Information and Communications Technology literacy (ICT literacy) skills aligned with nationally recognized Association of Colleges & Research Libraries (ACRL) standards. Through hierarchical multiple regression analysis, four variables predictive of a significantly higher score on the iSkills assessment at the p

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