Where are the “Digital Natives”? Results from ICILS 2018

What is ICILS 2018 about? ICILS is a large-scale, international assessment of grade 8 students’ computer and information literacy and computational thinking skills. It addresses a question of critical importance: how well are students prepared for study, work, and life in a digital world? 46,000 students and 26,000 teachers from more than 2,200 schools in 12 countries and two sub-regions took part in ICILS 2018. ICILS assesses the core knowledge, skills and understanding students need to succeed in our dynamic information environment using authentic tasks in a computer-based environment. ICILS provides countries with reliable, comparable data about young people’s development of 21st century computer and information literacy (CIL) skills.