Integrating Information Literacy with the Evidence-based Framework and Military Judgement and Decision Making: A Literature Review

Abstract

This article offers a literature review that results in the introduction of three information literacy protocols. It is the third in a four-part series of articles that discusses the integration of the evidence-based framework (EBF) and military judgment and decision making (MJDM). The series is written as a conceptualization and implementation of the U.S. presidential memorandum on restoring faith in government dated 27 January 2021. The memorandum directs federal agencies to base policy- and decision-making processes on the best available evidence. Accordingly, the focus of the series is on integrating the EBF into defense planning and decision making as an operational art. This article focuses on information literacy—specifically, building a data set for systematic reviews. The current literature on information literacy reveals that specific protocols to enhance rigor, transparency, validity, and reliability in building a data set for systematic reviews are significantly underrepresented. In this article, the Stanford Design Thinking Process model was applied to address this underrepresentation. The Stanford model uses five phases of collaboration to develop new protocols. The results of these collaboration are three new protocols for building data sets that are specifically designed for an integration of the EBF and MJDM: the targeting search strategy protocol (TSSP); the research question variable synthesis protocol (RQVSP); and the human source query protocol (HSQP).