Welcome!

TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade standards. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for school librarians and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students. There is no charge for using TRAILS.

Details about how the assessment system works may be found at HOW TRAILS WORKS.

Established users sign in.

New users create an account.

 

Preparing your students for college? In addition to TRAILS-12, take a look at our sister site—Transitioning to College (T2C) at http://www.transitioning2college.org. T2C provides resources for both students and librarians about the college experience.

Can you help us? We have a grant to strengthen and promote TRAILS-12 and T2C. We seek high school librarians to serve as a sounding board on how these two tools might help you prepare your students for college. Your assistance might take the form of participating in a survey, online focus group, or interview that would take place early in 2012. If you are willing, please complete the short online form at: http://tinyurl.com/hs2college

We so enjoyed our session at AASL Exploratorium--to hear so many accounts of how you are using TRAILS and to meet many more who are interested in the possibilities.

National benchmarks based on 2010-11 data are available for 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grades. To view, log in and go to "My Account."

Check out the TRAILS wiki (http://trails-informationliteracy.wikispaces.com)

Join us on Twitter at TRAILS InfoLit and become a TRAILS fan on our Facebook page.

TRAILS is a service of Kent State University Libraries.