1. What's skill got to do with it?: Information literacy skills and self-views of ability among first-year college students.
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Gross, Melissa and Latham, Don
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ASIANS , *BLACK people , *COLLEGE students , *COMMUNITY colleges , *HISPANIC Americans , *INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas , *RESEARCH funding , *SELF-perception , *T-test (Statistics) , *WHITE people , *INFORMATION literacy , *DATA analysis software - Abstract
This study replicates a previous study based on work in psychology, which demonstrates that students who score as below proficient in information literacy (IL) skills have a miscalibrated self-view of their ability. Simply stated, these students tend to believe that they have above-average IL skills, when, in fact, an objective test of their ability indicates that they are below-proficient in terms of their actual skills. This investigation was part of an Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded project and includes demographic data about participants, their scores on an objective test of their information literacy skills, and self-estimates of their ability. Findings support previous research that indicates many students come to college without proficient IL skills, that students with below-proficient IL skills have inflated views of their ability, and that this miscalibration can also be expressed by students who test as proficient. Implications for research and practice are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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