The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) is the only international large-scale assessment that focuses solely on digital literacy education and provides measures that can be used to monitor changes in students’ digital literacy achievement over time. In addition to measuring student achievement in computer and information literacy (CIL), and computational thinking (CT), ICILS collects extensive targeted data relating to the contextual factors associated with students’ digital literacy learning in school and outside of school.

ICILS collected data in 2013, 2018 and in 34 countries and one benchmarking participant in 2023. This session will provide an overview of ICILS 2023 and will report key findings related to students' achievement in CIL and CT. It will further report on the contexts in which students' CIL and CT learning takes place within and across countries, and on the relationships between aspects of students’ background and ICT use, and their CIL and CT achievement. The session will include reflections on the consequences of these outcomes with respect to the teaching and learning of digital literacy-related competencies, and will provide detail of future planned research using ICILS data and discuss themes for research in the next cycle of ICILS (ICILS 2028).

Julian Fraillon is a Senior Project Advisor to the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). His work focuses on the conceptualization, planning and implementation of national and international large scale assessment projects. His primary research interests are assessment design, digital literacy education and civic and citizenship education. He is also a member of the IEA Technical Executive Group which provides high-level technical advice to IEA across all its studies.

Julian is the international study director of the IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study 2028, and was the international study director of the inaugural ICILS in 2013 and the subsequent cycles in 2018 and 2023. Previously he was Director of the Assessment and Reporting Research Program – Mathematics and Science at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and has directed a broad range of large-scale assessment projects in the areas of digital (ICT) literacy, literacy, numeracy, civics and citizenship education, values education and science. As part of this role he directed test development for the IEA International Civics and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS), 2009, 2016 and 2022 study cycles.