information literacy in schools

nature of information literacy in elementary schools Case study of Persian literature in fourth grade

Background and Aim: Information literacy is a contextual concept that needs to be studied in different contexts like schools. Promoting reading literacy is a core instructional objectives of Persian literature curriculum and also a part of information literacy. Understanding Concept of information literacy helps us to understand information literacy in elementary schools and can implement it in...

Designing educators’ information literacy model at the agricultural technical schools in Mazandaran province, Iran.

Information literacy embraces the ability to access useful information, to have the awareness organizing knowledge and information requiring different methods of search and most effective diagnostic information for problem solving and decision-making. Those who lack these abilities are continuously confused in the vast ocean of information. This study investigated designing model of educators’ ...

Learning outcomes of information literacy instruction at business schools

This paper reports results from an exploratory study investigating the factors affecting student learning outcomes of information literacy instruction (ILI) given at business schools. Specifically, the potential influence of student demographics, learning environment factors, and information literacy program components on behavioral, psychological, and benefit outcomes were examined. In total, ...

Internet (Information/Skill) Literacy in Iran

This study examines the associations of internet information literacy with two variables: (1) the ability to work with technical aspects of the internet (internet skill), and (2) attitudes about the need for qualitative necessities in the development of e-services. A hierarchical regressions software analyzes data from a national sample of 2134 internet users. In this paper, internet literacy i...

Advancing Adolescent Literacy in Urban Schools

The role of the university library in supporting information literacy in UK secondary schools

Purpose – To report on the findings of the CrossEd-2 study, which investigated the role of the university library in delivering information literacy skilling relating to the use of e-resources to secondary schools in the UK. Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative survey of all university libraries in the UK was undertaken using an e-mail questionnaire to identify the incidence of current ...