Module 8
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Statista
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S STRATEGY
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Simple
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REFINEMENT SS
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Initial search with the term information literacy yielded 197 results. Many of the results were from Australia, UK, and other countries. It also included information on reading literacy. I narrowed it by country and yielded 12 results.
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BEST HIT SS
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I found two really good hits. One was statistics on “Service priorities of academic libraries U.S. 2016,” which offered interesting chart on where information literacy falls in the service priority list of academic libraries. The other was a more interesting report by what seems to be the UK version of the FCC. The report I found on Statista offered detailed statistics on the subject of media literacy a subset of information literacy as it relates to social media and Internet use.
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1 CONTENT THNG YOU LEARNED
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Adults Media Use and Attitudes report 2018 by Ofcom a British communications company – examines adult media literacy in Britain for people ages 16 and older. The report defines media literacy as, “Media literacy is the ability to use, understand and create media and communications in a variety of contexts.”
This report could be very useful in researching information literacy research and it is published annually. They had detailed breakdowns of statistics based on research that measured a variety of thought processes and circumstances. Some of the questions researched were, amount of time used on devices, types of devices used, opinions on search engine accuracy, and whether users believed the information they retrieved online and if they took the next step to check the information
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1 SEARCHING THING YOU LEARNED
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I liked that you could sort by Country. This helped to narrow the search for statistics in the geographic location that you were interested in.
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REFLECT ON HOW THE SEARCH WENT
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I found Statista easy to use as well and it offered a lot of information. I liked the breakdown of the search results on the side that showed the number of items found under their different categories of statistics, studies and reports, expert tools, infographics, etc. I also liked that you could sort by country.
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Initial search |
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Search narrowed by geographic location
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| 1 of 2 useful statistics from Statista |
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Statistics from OfCom
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| Statistics from Ofcom |
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