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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 2, 2006 |
MEDIA CONTACT:
Adrian B. Carver
(404) 978-2114 ~ acarver@auctr.edu |
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Washington – Loretta Parham, CEO & Library Director of the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc., is one of 16 influential education and business leaders selected to serve on a national policy council that will determine standards for information and communication technology (ICT) literacy.
“Meeting the complex range of skills likely to be required of our workforce presents a significant challenge, but it is a challenge we can no longer afford to ignore,” said Lana W. Jackman, National Forum on Information Literacy Co-Chair and convener of the new National ICT Literacy Policy Council. “The Policy Council will recommend policy changes and create national standards for ICT literacy proficiency so that we can ensure that every student knows how to use technology to locate, evaluate, synthesize, and use information effectively in solving complex problems and issues.”
Parham and fellow Council members will provide leadership in creating national standards for ICT Literacy. The Council, which convenes its first meeting in December, will review current ICT literacy and information literacy assessments and standards documents, determine the number of assessment levels, name those levels (such as advanced proficiency, acceptable proficiency and minimal proficiency), and provide descriptions for each level. In short, the Council will determine what students should know and be able to achieve at each level.
The Council will also recruit subpanels to review the two versions of the ICT Literacy Assessment, an online, interactive test of students’ ICT literacy created by the Princeton, New Jersey-based Educational Testing Service. The subpanels—composed of educators familiar with the needs and abilities of students—will determine cut points for each of the performance levels, so that students who score above a cut point will be considered more ICT literate than students who score below that cut point. These cut points may help educators determine which students are proficient and which may need additional ICT literacy instruction or remediation. The Council will review the recommendations and modify and/or accept them as appropriate national ICT literacy standards.
“I’m excited about this opportunity to work with the National ICT Literacy Policy Council and to learn how that work can advance the information literacy initiatives at the Woodruff Library,” said Parham. “In collaboration with our member institutions, RWWL is trying to help a new generation of information seekers to become well versed in the skills necessary to locate, use and evaluate information. The improvement of student learning outcomes is our shared goal.”
Visit this link for more information on the National ICT Literacy Policy Council. Learn more about the recent Information Literacy Summit at: www.infolitsummit.com and visit: www.ets.org/ictliteracy for more information about the Education Testing Service’s ICT Literacy Assessment.
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About
the Library
Constructed in 1982,
the Robert W. Woodruff Library is an
independent
entity
organized and operated for the exclusive benefit
of
its member institutions—Clark Atlanta
University, the Interdenominational Theological
Center, Morehouse College and Spelman College.
These colleges and universities represent the
world’s
largest consortium of historically black institutions
of higher learning. The
Library serves a combined student body of more
than 10,000.
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