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Information literacy is arguably the essential 21st century skill set for all students, and as such, it is important that students have a solid grounding in information problem-solving, the application of information literacy skills. A wide variety of authorities have called for these skills to be incorporated into educational standards both in the United States and in Europe. This paper compares the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) information literacy standards to the Big6 model of information problem-solving to determine the extent that these standards engage with all aspects of the information problem-solving process—especially the stage of Evaluation. Findings indicate that Evaluation and Task Definition seem to be under-emphasized in the AASL standards and missing entirely from the CCSS and should be addressed in research, policy, and practice.
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Willer, D., Eisenberg, M. (2014). Mapping Educational Standards to the Big6. 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_9
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