ETS research finds college students fall short in demonstrating ICT literacy

摘要

Educational Testing Service (ETS) released preliminary research that is consistent with a suspicion long held by those in academia: while students may be tech savvy when it comes to entertainment, they may not have the critical thinking skills to perform the kinds of information management and research tasks necessary for academic success. The research, gathered from 6,300 students who took ETS's ICT Literacy Assessment in 2006, suggests that many of the students who participated lack some of the information and communication technology (ICT) literacy skills expected for college-level work: on average, students earned only about half the points that they could have earned on the test.