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First Year and Junior Engineering Students’ Self-Assessment of Information Literacy SkillsAccording to ABET accreditation outcomes, engineering students should be able to recognizetheir need for lifelong learning (ABET Outcome 3.1). One way to determine whetherengineering students recognize this need is through self-assessment of information literacy skills. Self-assessments are frequently used to assess students’ perceptions about their behavior. Inparticular, there is a need to understand students’ perceptions of information literacy. Whilestudent perceptions of behavior can be somewhat different than actual behavior, self-assessmentsare important to understanding the difference between students’ perceived need for informationalliteracy and their actual need. These differences highlight areas where interventions are neededto bring students’ perceptions of behavior more closely in line with their actual …