This open access book presents the conceptual and operational foundations of the
IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study (2023), which is designed
to assess how well students are prepared for study, work, and life in a digital world.
The study measures international differences in students computer and information
literacy (CIL): their ability to use computers to investigate, create, participate and
communicate at home, at school, in the workplace and in the community. Participating
countries also have an option for their students to complete an assessment of
computational thinking (CT).
The ICILS assessment framework articulates the basic structure of the study. It
provides a description of the field and the constructs to be measured. It outlines the
design and content of the measurement instruments, sets down the rationale for
those designs, and describes how measures generated by those instruments relate
to the constructs. In addition, it hypothesizes relations between constructs so as to
provide the foundation for some of the analyses that follow.
