Exploring the Role of Information Literacy in Preservice Teachers' Current and Future Lives

• In Event: 30.080 - Roundtable Session 10
  In Roundtable Session: 30.080-23 - Examining and Developing Technology and Information Literacies Within Preservice Teachers' Lives

Abstract

TThe need for information literacy knowledge and skills is well documented in the literature; however, research has mostly focused on K-12 students with the assumption that teachers already possess the knowledge and skills necessary to implement them in their personal lives and teach them in the classroom when in fact little is actually known. The purpose of this explanatory mixed methods study was twofold: a) to assess preservice teachers’ (n=303) information literacy skills as measured by the iSkills assessment, and b) to explore the preservice teachers’ (n=57) perceptions of information literacy in their present academic and future professional lives. Findings and implications will be discussed in the final paper.

Authors

• Jennifer J. Wimmer, Brigham Young University

• Sophie Marie Ladd, University of Nevada - Las Vegas