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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Links between Adolescents’ Health Literacy and their Physical Activity and Body Mass Index

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Sport and Health Sciences, 2019
Background. The aim of the study was to identify links between health literacy, health information literacy and physical activity as well as body mass index in adolescents. Methods. The study was carried out from September till the end of November, 2018.
Renata Rutkauskaitė, Konsta Kuusinen
doaj   +1 more source

Medical Information Literacy and the Quality of the Medical Services. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Information Literacy is the library operation which makes the library user able to search, retrieve, evaluate, select and use the information resources.
Katsirikou, Anthi
core  

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is a standalone IL course useful? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Most Higher Education institutions are involved in the creation of online materials to support their students' information literacy skills development – which is labour intensive, and inevitably results in a great deal of duplication of effort across the
Makin, June   +3 more
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Information literacy: conceptions, context and the formation of a discipline

open access: yes, 2017
In this article the authors argue that progress in the development of information literacy (IL) has been hindered by tendencies such as: denying that information literacy is even a subject, paying exclusive attention to forces outside the discipline and ...
S. Webber, B. Johnston
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
wiley   +1 more source

Information Literacy: Business and Workplace Information Literacy: Three Perspectives

open access: yesReference & User Services Quarterly, 2017
Businesses want workers who are critical thinking problem-solvers, who know how to find, evaluate, and use information to address work-related issues, and communicate effectively regarding those issues,1 much like the information literacy (IL) or media and information literacy (MIL) efforts worldwide recently described in this column.2 In businesses at
Elizabeth Malafi   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

DESIGNING OF WEB-BASED INFORMATION LITERACY ASSESSMENT SYSTEM

open access: yesEdulib: Journal of Library and Information Science, 2017
, Information literacy is an important skills for 21st century learners. One of methods to evaluate the implementation of information literacy program in school library is assessment of information literacy competence.
Rachmawati -   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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