The survey of the information literacy among students and teachers

Abstract

The aim of my study is to research information literacy that university students and school teachers expect to acquire for themselves and to teach their students in Japan. Examining the questionnaire conducted to them, they are willing to acquire skills to identify their task, to read information, and to present the result of task. However, they are unwilling to acquire skills to evaluate the information that they have found, to make a note to be extracted from information resources, and to evaluate the process and performance. It is seemed that they are less interested in the instruction of evaluating information and making a note to their students. In future, as the explosive growth of information are continuing, it will be necessary that people master skills to evaluate information and to make a note. Teachers need to teach to their students not only skills to search and collect information but also skills to evaluate information and to make a note, and methods to evaluate process and performance.

Keywords

• Information literacy,information skills,teachers,student,evaluation

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