New! What is TRAILS?TRAILS is freely available on the Web at
http://www.trails-9.orgas
a tool to measure information literacy skills at the 6th and 9th grade levels.
At presentTRAILS hasover 4,800 library media specialist account holders, representing each of the United States, its territories, and over 30 countries. TRAILS assessments have been administered to over 100,000 students. TRAILS is a project of the Institute for Library and Information Literacy Education (
ILILE) at Kent State University and has been sponsored by grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the U.S. Department of Education.
Project SAILS (
https://www.projectsails.org/): Project SAILS is a standardized test of information literacy skills for higher education, based on
ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/informationliteracycompetency.cfm)
iSkillsThe iSkills assessment:
- measures your students’ ability to navigate, critically evaluate and make sense of the wealth of information available through digital technology — so you can make the necessary changes to narrow skill gaps
- is the only ICT literacy test that assesses critical thinking in the digital environment
- tests the range of ICT literacy skills aligned with nationally recognized Associationof College and Research Libraries (ACRL) standards
- helps you identify where further curriculum development is needed so students have the ICT literacy skills they need to succeed