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 nearly 23,000 students and recent graduates. All together, more than 100 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 published 14 open access reports, since 2009.
