The survey of the information literacy among students and teachers

Year 2016, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 49 - 55, 22.12.2016

Kazuyuki Sunaga

https://doi.org/10.22596/erj2016.0102.49.55

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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