IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS)
Computer and information literacy refers to an individual’s ability to use computers to investigate, create and communicate in order to participate effectively at home, at school, in the workplace and in the community. CIL brings together technical competence and intellectual capacity to achieve a communicative purpose.

IEA ICILS will measure international differences in CIL and computer use in Grade 8 (or its national equivalent) students. There is an option also to sample Grade 4. It will also collect information about contexts (at the student, school and system level) in which CIL is developed.

Timeline

 
Framework and instrument development * First NRC Meeting: 21-24 June 2010, Amsterdam
Field trial
Main survey
Reporting
 
 
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
 

Sample assessment module format

Developed in 2003-2004 for an Australian context.


Conservation Project


Flag Design


Video Games and Violence

This sample assessment module is taken from the 2005 Australian National Assessment Program – ICT Literacy school release materials. The IEA and ICILS acknowledge and thank MCEEDYA for permission to display the module.

Broad Research Questions

  1. What variations exist between countries, and within countries, in student CIL?
  2. What aspects of students’ use of computers and other ICT’s are related to student achievement in CIL?
  3. What characteristics of students’ technological backgrounds are related to student achievement in CIL?
  4. What individual/personal student characteristics are related to student achievement in CIL?

Instruments