“…Student attainment of information literacy is a goal of both the ACRL and the AASL that has yet to be fully realized. While researchers (e.g., Chaudhry & Choo, 2001;Hutcherson, 2004;Redfern, 2004;Schaub, Cadeno, Bravender, & Kierkus, 2017) who explored literacy instruction in the academic setting found that students begin their college experience with a basic understanding of information literacy language, recently, researchers have demonstrated that many students enter higher education non-proficient in information literacy skills (Gerrity, 2018;Gross & Latham, 2012;Varleejs, Stec, & Kwon, 2014). While many factors that influence student attainment of information literacy, the extent to which formal definitions of information literacy agree and provide a scaffold for increasing information literacy competency has the potential to affect student success in school and in the workplace.…”