Teachers’ conceptions about information literacy skills of school children

Teachers’ conceptions about information literacy skills of school children

The paper presents results of a study conducted to measure perceptions of teachers about their 3rd grade students’ information literacy (IL) skills. The IL standards given by the California School Library Association for 2nd graders were provided to 54 teachers from three private schools of Lahore city of Pakistan to get their opinion. Selected through purposive sampling methods, the respondent...

Teachers’ Conceptions of Student Information Literacy Learning and Teachers’ Practices of Information Literacy Teaching and Collaboration with the School Library: A Grounded Case Study

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Information literacy skills of secondary school students in Singapore

Purpose: This study aimed to acquire knowledge about Singapore secondary school (ages 13 to 16 years old) students’ skills in searching, evaluating and using information. Methodology: A comprehensive instrument encompassing the basic IL skills, as well as a new dimension of ethical usage of information and collaborative information seeking was used for data collection. From August to November 2...

What do the conceptions of geo/spatial information tell us about information literacy?

Relationship of Information Literacy and Environmental Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Primary School Teachers

Background and Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of information literacy and environmental knowledge, attitude and practice of primary school teachers. Method: This was a correlational study. Population included all teachers (male and female) in the first to sixth grades of primary school in District 1 of Hamadan, numbering 875 students. A stratified random sampling...