Assessing Media and Information Literacy: Teenagers’ Practices and Competence in Information Search and Multimedia Creation

This article introduces the theoretical framework, method and first results of an international study on the assessment of teenagers’ Media and Information Liter-acy (MIL) in online information search and multimedia creation in four French-speaking countries. The results presented focus on the levels of general MIL competence self-reported by Belgian and Swiss adolescents, the relationship be-tween their competence and their media and information practices, and the influ-ence of gender on their self-reported competence and practices.