The International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS): U.S. ICILS 2018 Technical Report and User's Guide

The International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) is a computer-based international assessment of 8th-grade students' capacities to use information communications technologies (ICT) productively for a variety of different purposes, beyond a basic use of digital technology. Sponsored by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), ICILS assessment had two components: computer and information literacy (CIL) and computational thinking (CT). CIL assessed students' computer and information literacy (CIL) with an emphasis on the use of computers as information-seeking, management, and communication tools and CT assessed students' abilities to recognize and operationalize real-world problems using computational formulations.