jackpot: Online resource TRAILS

TRAILS: Tools for real-time assessment of information literacy skills 

A project of Kent State library

http://www.trails-9.org/index.php?page=home

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Eureka! an online tool that allows K-12 students and librarians to easily assess research skills as compared to Ohio Academic Content Standards and the American Association of School Librarians' Information Power and Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.

This resource will allow me to utilize an educationally proven, consistent and quantifiable pre- and post-test for an experimental study in library instruction. 

And did I mention, it's free?? (funded by multiple organizations, including the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the U.S. Department of Education.

What did researchers do before the Internet? We should be SO much more efficient now, and SO much more productive.