Lifelong Learning Survey of Recent US College Graduates

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Alison Head, University of Washington

Version:  View help for Version V10

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Project Citation: 

Head, A. (2016). Lifelong Learning Survey of Recent US College Graduates [Data set]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]. https://doi.org/10.3886/E61131V9

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary The Project Information Literacy (PIL) lifelong learning survey dataset was produced as part of a two-year federally funded study on relatively recent US college graduates and their information-seeking behavior for continued learning. The goal of the survey was to collect quantitative data about the information-seeking behavior of a sample of recent graduates—the strategies, techniques, information support systems, and best practices—used to support lifelong learning in post-college life. The dataset contains responses from 1,651 respondents to a 21-item questionnaire administered between October 9, 2014 and December 15, 2014. The voluntary sample of respondents consisted of relatively recent graduates, who had completed their degrees between 2007 and 2012, from one of 10 US colleges and universities in the institutional sample. Quantitative data are included in the dataset about the learning needs of relatively recent graduates as well as the information sources they used in three arenas of their post-college lives (i.e., personal life, workplace, and the communities in which they resided). Demographic information—including age, gender, major, GPA, employment status, graduate school attendance, and geographic proximity of current residence to their alma mater—is also included in the dataset for the respondents.

"Staying Smart: How Today's Graduates Continue to Learn Once They Complete College," Alison J. Head, Project Information Literacy Research Report, Seattle: University of Washington Information School (January 5, 2016), 112 pages, 6.9 MB.


Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms college students; information literacy; lifelong learning
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States, 10 higher education institutions from 9 states
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 10/9/2014 – 12/15/2014


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