Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Culture, Assessment

The latest issue of the IFLA journal has a couple of articles on information literacy:

Dorner, D.G. and Gorman, G.E. (2006) "Information Literacy Education in Asian Developing Countries: cultural factors affecting curriculum development and programme delivery." IFLA Journal, 32 (4), 281 - 293. (This seems to be the same as the IFLA paper presented at the 2006 IFLA conference: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/papers/082-Gorman_Dorner-en.pdf. An interesting paper this, in relating cultural issues to pedagogic approaches to information literacy.

Murta, L., Stec, E. and Wilt, M. (2006) "Using Assessment as a Tool to Improve Learning: an IFLA Workshop." IFLA Journal, 32 (4), 294-307. "Assessment" here means both assessment and evaluation (of teachers/programmes). It arises from the workshop at the 2003 IFLA conference in Berlin.

You download the whole issue (not individual articles) at http://www.ifla.org/V/iflaj/IFLA-Journal-4-2006.pdf. I was at that workshop, mentioned above, and this is where I stayed in Berlin during the conference.

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