This open access book presents the conceptual and operational foundations of the

IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study (2023), which is designed

to assess how well students are prepared for study, work, and life in a digital world.

The study measures international differences in students’ computer and information

literacy (CIL): their ability to use computers to investigate, create, participate and

communicate at home, at school, in the workplace and in the community. Participating

countries also have an option for their students to complete an assessment of

computational thinking (CT).

The ICILS assessment framework articulates the basic structure of the study. It

provides a description of the field and the constructs to be measured. It outlines the

design and content of the measurement instruments, sets down the rationale for

those designs, and describes how measures generated by those instruments relate

to the constructs. In addition, it hypothesizes relations between constructs so as to

provide the foundation for some of the analyses that follow.