High School Project
Information Competence: A Forum Series for High Schools
INFORMATION COMPETENCIES: a bibliography
prepared for the High School Project March Forum
by Gabriela Sonntag 3/30/98
1. Brievik, Patricia Senn. Student Learning in the Information Age. (American Council on Education, Series on Higher Education) Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1997
2. The Information Society: Are High School Graduates Ready? A report of the Education Commission of the States, 1982.
3. Teaching information literacy using electronic resources for grades 6-12.
Canada: Linworth, 1996.
4. Farmer, Lesley S. Johnson. Authentic assessment of information literacy through electronic products. (experience of the Education Task Force, a consortium of K-14 public schools in Marin County, California). Book Report v. 16 (Sept./Oct. '97) p. 11-13
5. Walster, Dian. Student-centered information literacy programs: the Colorado vision. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1995.
6. Special section on information literacy. Indiana Media Journal v. 18 (Summer '96) p. 1-111
7. Johnson, Douglas A.; Eisenberg, Michael B., Computer literacy and information literacy: a natural combination. (for school libraries). Emergency Librarian v. 23 (May/June '96) p. 12-16.
8. Skills for life: library information literacy for grades 9-12 Linworth Pub, 1993.
9. Doyle, Christina S. The Delphi method as a qualitative assessment tool for
development of outcome measures for information literacy (national education goals of 1990). School library media annual, v11, 1993
10. Miller, Karen Chemlir. Information literacy: the California curricular connection. CMLEA Journal v. 17 (Spring '94) p. 25-8
11. Mendrinos, Roxanne Baxter. Building information literacy using high technology: a guide to schools and libraries. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited 1994
12. From library skills to information literacy:a handbook for the 21st century. California Media and Library Education Association. Castle Rock:CO, Hi Willow Research and Pub., 1994.
INTERNET SITES
1. Getting Results: The Relationship of Measurable Goals to Information Literacy Standards.
http://prism.prs.k12.nj.us/WWW/OII/Judy_Garden/jw_ideal.html
This excellent site is from Princeton, New Jersey where the Online Internet Institute (OII) has developed the Ideal project: Ideas Driving Education into Action Learning because they feel that too many reform efforts look to changing teacher behavior rather than looking at student learning!
2. Information Competence in the CSU: A Report. Submitted to Commission on learning Resources and Instructional Technology by Work Group on Information Competence, CLRIT Task 6.1. Susan C. Curzon, Chair December 1995.
http://www.calstate.edu/ITPA/Docs/info_comp_report.html
This site includeds:
What is Information Competence?
Why is Information Competence important?
Methods for implementing a program for Information Competence
Methods for assessing Information Competence of students
Issues to consider in implementing a program in Information Competence
3. National Information Literacy Initiative (ALA)
http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/nilihp.html
New initiative of the American Library Association to train librarians to develop, manage and instruct in an information literacy program.
4. California Academic and Research Libraries WASC standards
http://www.carl-acrl.org/Reports/rectoWASC.html
The text of the standards recommended to WASC by appointed committee of librarians from the University of California and the California State University.
5. Draft resolution for information literacy
http://www.carl-acrl.org/Announce97/infocomp.html
Text of a resolution drafted by participants at the April 4, 1995 Bibliographic Instruction/Information Literacy Preconference sponsored by the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges.
6. California Technology Assistance Project
http://ctap.fcoe.k12.ca.us/ctap/Info.Lit/infolit.html
maintained by G. Sonntag 5/98