The Educational Testing Service (ETS) released initial results for the tech literacy test they launched a year ago. The basic finding is that while high school and college students are quite adept at entertainment and communication technologies, their literacy skills, which require critical thinking, are woefully lacking. For example: “…only 52% of test takers could correctly judge the objectivity of a Web site, and only 65% could correctly judge the site’s authoritativeness. In a Web search task, only 40% entered multiple search terms to narrow the results. And when selecting a research statement for a class assignment, only 44% identified a statement that captured the demands of the assignment.” See the press release for additional information and links to a summary of findings and a demo.