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The National Library Board (NLB) and Ministry of Education (MOE) in Singapore have collaborated to carry out a National Information Literacy (IL) Program for primary and secondary school students. The program involves developing a curriculum framework that can be introduced in specific school subjects where IL competencies can be nurtured. Surveys were developed to identify students’ IL strengths and weaknesses and guide relevant intervention planning and implementation. IL academics from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, were involved in formulating the proposed IL model for schools, curriculum framework, as well as in reviewing and assessing the findings of the surveys. At this point, the survey instrument has been formulated and a pilot test of the instrument has been administered to more than 70 primary school students and about 20 secondary school students. This paper shares the main analyses of the pilot survey, according to the proposed model for IL for Singapore schools.
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Mokhtar, I.A., Chang, YK., Majid, S., Foo, S., Theng, YL., Zhang, X. (2013). National Information Literacy Survey of Primary and Secondary School Students in Singapore - A Pilot Study. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R., Špiranec, S. (eds) Worldwide Commonalities and Challenges in Information Literacy Research and Practice. ECIL 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 397. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03919-0_65
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