About PIL

Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a nonprofit research institute that conducts scholarly studies about students and how they find, evaluate, select, and create  information for use in their courses and for solving information problems in everyday life. Read PIL’s FAQ. Read a summary of our research findings. Read our op-ed, “At Sea in a Deluge of Data” from The Chronicle of Higher Education.

We have collected data from almost 22,500 students and recent graduates. All together, 98 U.S. public and private colleges and universities, community colleges, and 34 high schools have participated in PIL’s institutional samples during the past decade. PIL has produced 12 open access reports, since 2009.

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