Project Information Literacy

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Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a large-scale, national study about early adults and their research habits, conducted in partnership with the University of Washington Information School. Since 2009, PIL has investigated how college students and recent graduates conceptualize and execute research activities for course work and "everyday life" use, especially how they resolve issues of credibility, authority, relevance, and currency in the digital age. In a series of eight different large-scale studies, data has been collected from over 13,000 "early adults" enrolled in more than 60 community colleges and public and private colleges and universities in the U.S. The project site is at http://projectinfolit.org and the study's director is Dr. Alison J. Head.

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    Project Information Literacy Survey Dataset: Lifelong Learning Study
    (Project Information Literacy, The University of Washington Information School, 2016-01-05) Head, Alison
    The Project Information Literacy (PIL) lifelong learning survey dataset was produced as part of a two-year federally funded study on relatively recent US college graduates and their information-seeking behavior for continued learning. The goal of the survey was to collect quantitative data about the information-seeking behavior of a sample of recent graduates—the strategies, techniques, information support systems, and best practices—used to support lifelong learning in post-college life. The dataset contains responses from 1,651 respondents to a 21-item questionnaire administered between October 9, 2014 and December 15, 2014. The voluntary sample of respondents consisted of relatively recent graduates, who had completed their degrees between 2007 and 2012, from one of 10 US colleges and universities in the institutional sample. Quantitative data are included in the dataset about the learning needs of relatively recent graduates as well as the information sources they used in three arenas of their post-college lives (i.e., personal life, workplace, and the communities in which they resided). Demographic information—including age, gender, major, GPA, employment status, graduate school attendance, and geographic proximity of current residence to their alma mater—is also included in the dataset for the respondents.