Reintroducing the iSkills™ Assessment from ETS

To succeed in today's digital world, students and workers need to think critically and solve problems using a full range of information and communication technology (ICT) literacy skills. The iSkills™ assessment — a successor to both the iCritical Thinking™ Certification and previous versions of the iSkills assessment — helps you ensure your students are ready for success by measuring their critical thinking and problem-solving skills in a digital environment.

ETS organized the 2001 International ICT Literacy Panel — an international group of leaders in education, business and government — to analyze issues and approaches to measuring ICT literacy. From this research, ETS partnered with a consortium of institutions of higher education to develop the iSkills assessment.

An outcomes-based assessment, the iSkills assessment measures applied ICT literacy skills through a range of real-world tasks. This one-hour exam:

• features real-time, scenario-based tasks that measure an individual's ability to navigate, critically evaluate and understand the wealth of information available through digital technology
• helps you identify when further curriculum development is needed so students have the ICT literacy skills they need to succeed
• delivers individual and group data for use in student evaluation and placement, student ICT literacy assessment, curriculum development and deployment decisions and for accreditation and accountability initiatives
• tests the range of ICT literacy skills aligned with nationally recognized Association of Colleges & Research Libraries (ACRL) standards

For more information about the iSkills assessment, contact an ETS advisor at 1-800-745-0269 or by emailing highered@ets.org.