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The study was conducted at the end of 2013 with collaborative efforts from a group of information literacy researchers, members of Singapore National Library Board, and child development experts in the Ministry of Education. Some 3435 students from 15 schools, spread across different geographical regions of Singapore, were sampled. Results of data analysis showed a mean percentage score of 64, meaning that students possessed basic IL skills. Students scored very well on cyber wellness questions, defining information task, synthesizing and using information. However, students performed poorly for questions related to seeking information from different sources. It was also observed that students performed poorly at identifying steps in conducting an information project. The results suggest that most of the P5 students might have not been given enough opportunity to carry out independent tasks that required them to find new information, or information may often be given to the students by teachers.
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Chang, YK., Foo, S., Majid, S. (2014). Assessing IL Skills of Primary-5 Students in Singapore. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Catts, R. (eds) Information Literacy. Lifelong Learning and Digital Citizenship in the 21st Century. ECIL 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 492. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14136-7_56
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