The National Information Literacy Framework (Scotland) defines information literacy learning in terms of:

 

• skills, knowledge and understanding
• examples of an information task/s at that level
• exemplars of how  the skills, knowledge and understanding at this level have been mapped into specific subjects or course design (see case studies / exemplars of good practice link within each of the sections added through the piloting /working with project partners)
• assessment level and criteria if the person is to be assessed

 

It can be used by:

 

• institutions such as schools, colleges and universities
• learning centres
• workplaces or professional bodies 

 to:

 

• support the embedding of information literacy in programmes of learning and teaching across the curricula
• articulate the standards that can be expected:

§ within each level of the identified educational sectors (schools, further education, higher education)

§ of new entrants to that sector whether through progressing from one sector to another or as direct entrants

§ of employees entering the workplace

 

• inform the development of information literacy within learning centres and workplaces workshops and training sessions.

 For ease of use the framework has been divided into the following sections:

 

• Schools 
• Secondary Schools / Further Education Colleges
• Further / Higher Education   
• Higher Education   
• Lifelong learning including all information-using communities e.g. community learning and in the workplace