National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland) Overview of pages and postings in the restructured framework which started as a draft pdf and has subsequently been further developed as a weblog.

1. National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland)
http://caledonianblogs.net/nilfs/
Pages
Overview
• Back ground information and provenance
• Appendix A: Examples of information literacy material
• Appendix B: Existing skills definitions, frameworks and models used to
inform the development of the draft national framework
• Appendix C – Overview diagram / Mind map of framework
• Appendix D: University of Abertay Dundee: Information Literacy
Framework
• Appendix E: Loughborough University Library Information Literacy: IL
competences
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2. National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland)
http://caledonianblogs.net/nilfs/
Information Literacy
• Information Literacy and Lifelong Learning
• Information literacy education
Use of the framework
Framework Levels
• Schools
o School case studies / exemplars of good practice
• Information Literacy Model – ExPLORE
• North Ayrshire Information Literacy Toolkit – Primary
Schools
• Schools toolKit for Information Literacy – Nursery –
primary 7 (12 year olds)
• Sharing practice – IL case studies (Curriculum for
Excellence)
• Transition from primary to secondary school
• School Information Literacy Policy
• Real and Relevant – Information Literacy Skills for the 21st
Century Learner’
• Secondary Schools / Further Education Colleges
o Assessment level SCQF Level 2 / Access 2
o Assessment level SCQF Level 3 / Access 3
o Assessment level SCQF Level 4 / Intermediate 1
o Assessment level SCQF Level 5 / Intermediate 2
o Assessment level SCQF Level 6 / Higher
o Assessment level SCQF Level 7 / SHE level 1, Cert HE, HNC,
Advanced Higher
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3. National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland)
http://caledonianblogs.net/nilfs/
o Secondary school case studies / exemplars of good practice
• Govan High staff induction programme that challenges ICT
assumptions
• 1st Year English Library Research project Biography
• Supporting pupils in developing their information skills in
an academic context
• Helping senior pupils with research for Higher History
extended essays
• East Lothian School Librarians IL activities
• Largs Academy – information literacy activities
• James Gillespie developing S1 information literacy
• Information literacy using the ExPLORE model
• Information literacy and the draft CfE Science Outcomes
• Information Literacy Audit & School Information Literacy
working group
• Further / Higher Education
o Assessment level SCQF Level 8 / SHE level 2, Dip HE, HND, SVQ
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o FE college case studies / exemplars of good practice
• IL diagnostic assessment @ Carnegie College
• Higher Education
o HE case studies / exemplars of good practice
• Dundee University and three Dundee High Schools
• Glasgow Caledonian University – iLearn Framework
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4. National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland)
http://caledonianblogs.net/nilfs/
o Assessment level SCQF Level 9 / SHE level 3, Ordinary degrees
o Assessment Level SCQF Level 10 / SHE level 4, Honours degrees
o Assessment Level SCQF Level 11 / SHE level 5, PG 1, PG Dip, PG
Cert, MA, MSc, SVQ5
o Assessment Level SCQF Level 12 / SHE level 5, PG 2, Ph.D. –
Doctorate
• Lifelong Learning – community learning and in the workplace
o Workplace case studies / exemplars of good practice
 NHS Scotland information literacy competency framework
 Scottish Government Information Services IL activities
 Skills for Scotland: A Lifelong Skills Strategy
o Public library case studies / exemplars of good practice
Exemplars
Assessments
Posts:
 School policy for Information Literacy
 Sharing practice information literacy case studies (Curriculum
for Excellence)
 Aberdeenshire information literacy activities update
 Information Literacy indicator and FE Standards toolkit
Christine Irving – September 2009
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