an investigation of the relationship between information literacy skills and effectiveness of teachers: a case study of primary school teachers in sari city

purpose: the main objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between information literacy skills and effectiveness of primary school teachers in sari city. methodology: due to the nature of the study, descriptive-correlational survey method has been used. for data collection two researcher-made questionnaires have been employed. the population of the study was all the primary school teachers in sari city (n= 469). based on simple random sampling and using krejcie and morgan table, 210 teachers were selected as the sample population. for data analysis and hypotheses testing, one-sample t-test and spearman correlation test has been used employing spss software version 20. findings: results showed that the information literacy skills of teachers and their efficacy has been higher than average. also, there is a positive and significant relationship between teacher's information literacy skills and their effectiveness and all its three dimensions including: teaching skills, professional character,and classroom management skills.