Information Literacy Instrument for Primary School Students : A Validity and Reliability Study

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop the instrument of student information literacy through several stages consisting of instrument development, content validity, empirical validity, and relialbility instrument. This research used Borg and Gall development step such as research and information collecting, planning, develop preliminary form of product, preliminary field testing, operational field testing, operational product, main field testing, main product revision collecting and final product revision collecting. The data collection used in this study was in the form of questionnaire and test of student literacy measurement. The subjects of this study were fifth graders of primary school in Malang for about 105 student use purposive technique sample. 22 literacy items were obtained from the results of the instrument development and 17 items were categorized as valid items. Expert validity test results obtained an average total value of 3.6. The result of the trial showed that some of the items need to be revised, but are appropriate to measure the primary school students information literacy.