International Computer and Information Literacy Study.
ICILS
- What it measures
- Computer and information literacy (CIL) as the required test and computational thinking (CT) as an optional test at grade 8, plus student, teacher, school and national ICT-context questionnaires.
- Length and format
- Computer-based modules built around authentic software-simulation tasks, administered in a rotated module design. computer-based interactive tasks, multiple-choice and constructed-response items (performance/ability test)
- Language versions
- Fielded in the national languages of every participating system under IEA translation-verification procedures.
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- mixed
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- Reference
- IEA (2024). IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study 2023: International Report. International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, Amsterdam. https://www.iea.nl/studies/iea/icils
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