Measuring media and information literacy skills: construction of a test

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Autor(a) principal: Lopes, P.
Data de Publicação: 2018
Outros Autores: Costa, P., Araújo, L., Ávila, P.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/16549
Resumo: Research on media and information literacy has been growing exponentially over the past years, but it has focused more on the examination of media practices than on the assessment of media and information literacy skills. In this paper we describe the process of designing and implementing a Media and Information Literacy Test comprising 20 items. We present the results of the analysis carried out to validate the items and to construct a scale of media and information literacy skills using Item Response Theory (IRT). Findings indicate that the conceptual framework adopted is adequate to measure media and information literacy and that the test has good discrimination and difficulty parameters. The test is based on a more comprehensive framework used to assess media and information literacy skills than those used in previous studies and can be used on an item-by-item basis. In this sense, it is a novel contribution to current efforts to measure media and information literacy skills.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Measuring media and information literacy skills: construction of a test
title Measuring media and information literacy skills: construction of a test
spellingShingle Measuring media and information literacy skills: construction of a test
Lopes, P.
Media and information literacy
Direct assessment of media and information literacy skills
Item Response Theory
title_short Measuring media and information literacy skills: construction of a test
title_full Measuring media and information literacy skills: construction of a test
title_fullStr Measuring media and information literacy skills: construction of a test
title_full_unstemmed Measuring media and information literacy skills: construction of a test
title_sort Measuring media and information literacy skills: construction of a test
author Lopes, P.
author_facet Lopes, P.
Costa, P.
Araújo, L.
Ávila, P.
author_role author
author2 Costa, P.
Araújo, L.
Ávila, P.
author2_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Lopes, P.
Costa, P.
Araújo, L.
Ávila, P.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Media and information literacy
Direct assessment of media and information literacy skills
Item Response Theory
topic Media and information literacy
Direct assessment of media and information literacy skills
Item Response Theory
description Research on media and information literacy has been growing exponentially over the past years, but it has focused more on the examination of media practices than on the assessment of media and information literacy skills. In this paper we describe the process of designing and implementing a Media and Information Literacy Test comprising 20 items. We present the results of the analysis carried out to validate the items and to construct a scale of media and information literacy skills using Item Response Theory (IRT). Findings indicate that the conceptual framework adopted is adequate to measure media and information literacy and that the test has good discrimination and difficulty parameters. The test is based on a more comprehensive framework used to assess media and information literacy skills than those used in previous studies and can be used on an item-by-item basis. In this sense, it is a novel contribution to current efforts to measure media and information literacy skills.
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