Edtechkat

Today JISC (in the UK)  released the report “Great Expectations of ICT: How Higher Education Institutions are measuring up”.  From their description on this page: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/greatexpectations

JISC commissioned Ipsos MORI to undertake research among first year students studying in higher education to:

• Understand first year students’ experiences of ICT use and provision in HEIs, particularly in light of the expectations which emerged from the first study in June 2007
  
• Examine whether there is a mismatch between expectations and reality

The research re-visits a cohort of the school and college students who participated in phase one² of the research in June 2007 to explore how their current experiences of ICT in their first year of higher education match up with their expectations. A representative sample of first year students from across the UK was also surveyed to identify whether findings emerging from the cohort were reflected across the wider student population. Over 1,000 students were researched using quantitative and qualitative techniques.³
Download the full report³ (pdf)

The first link provides a very nice table and summary of the findings.   From a library perspective, they point out that ”There is also an opportunity to help students understand best practice for checking the validity of internet sources used for research, something which 69% of students believe they are doing despite evidence elsewhere suggesting they may lack the critical and analytical skills to do so rigorously.”