Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a national and ongoing study based at the University of Washington's Information School. In Truth Be Told: How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age (2010), researchers Head and Eisenberg reported that "the sheer act of just getting started on research assignments and defining a research inquiry was overwhelming for students -- more so than any of the subsequent steps in the research process" (2). They based this finding on survey data from over 8,000 students at 25 U.S. colleges and universities.
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