نویسندگان
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
The purpose of present study was to evaluate information literacy of final year undergraduate students at Islamic Azad University of Ramhormoz during 2010 -2011 based on ACRL information literacy standards. It was a descriptive and analytical research; and the population consisted of all final year undergraduate university students who studied at various courses of electronics, psychology, family studies, civil ngineering, Arabic literature, Persian literature, accounting, law and computer; data-gathering tool was researcher-made questionnaire including 36 items of the Leikert scale type. After data collected, data analysis has been done at two descriptive and analytical levels by using spss software. Research findings then indicated that population mean for both awareness of their correct understanding of their information needs and how to determine and express was 42/01; familiarity of student with correct methods to achieve information was 43/34; familiarity of student with evaluation of search process results was 16/43; awareness of how to use information was 20/97; and also familiarity with legal issues, economic and social use of information and follow them was 23/86. In otgher word, the result ofstudy indicated the moderate information literacy of undergraduate students based on ACRL standards indices. In conclution, it presented to improve status of information literacy among students by holding seminars and lectures at universities to raise students' awareness of innovation and technology as well as preparing brochures to use at the library, and holding introductory workshops with online information databases to help students increase their understanding of the sources of information.
کلیدواژهها [English]