Name: Lizel Delacruz Subject: Information Literacy

Year & Section: BLIS3A Date: 02/21/2023

Assignment/ Activity:

Question: Identify the Theories and Principles of Information Literacy?

Information Literacy- is the set of skills and behaviors necessary to find, access, evaluate, and use
information effectively and ethically. This definition and the following associated learning outcomes are
guided by and adapted from the published information literacy standards of the Association of College &
Research libraries (ACRL), the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), and the
International Federation of Library Association & Institutions (IFLA).

1. AAC&U Info Literacy Rubric- This rubric for evaluating information literacy competencies is
endorsed by the American Association of Colleges & Universities.
2. ACRL- considers information literacy a set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective
discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued, and the
use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of
learning.
3. ALA- Defines the information literacy as “a set of abilities requiring individuals to recognize
when information in needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the
needed information.
4. IFLA International Guidelines on Information Literacy- Information Literacy guidelines from the
International Federation of library Associations (IFLA).
5. Project Information Literacy (PIL)- is the nonprofit research institute in the San Francisco bay
Area. Since 2009, in a series of 12 groundbreaking scholarly research studies, PIL has
investigated how U.S. college students and recent graduates utilize research skills, information
competencies, and strategies for completing course work, engaging with news, and solving
information problems in their everyday lives and the workplace.

Theory: Social Constructivism

 Social constructivism is today seen as the main theoretical base for information literacy.
 Todd (2000) states that new knowledge and meaningful learning results when a person
consciously and explicitly ties new knowledge to relevant concepts and propositions already
possessed.
 Gives learners the opportunity for concrete, contextually meaningful experience through which
they search for patterns, raise their own questions, and construct their own models.
 To the social constructivist, to learn is to see the meaning or significance in a social experience
or concept.