November 12, 2004
Testing Service to Unveil an Assessment of Computer and Information Literacy
The Educational Testing Service plans to unveil a standardized test this week designed to measure the computer savvy and information literacy of college students.
The test will evaluate how well students can judge the validity of online information, build a spreadsheet, compose e-mail messages summarizing a passage, and perform other tasks. Called the ICT Literacy Assessment -- the first three letters stand for "information and communication technology" -- it was developed on
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