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Gender and Information Literacy: Evaluation of Gender Differences in a Student Survey of Information Sources
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Taylor, Arthur; Dalal, Heather A. – College & Research Libraries, 2017
Information literacy studies have shown that college students use a variety of information sources to perform research and commonly choose Internet sources over traditional library sources. Studies have also shown that students do not appear to understand the information quality issues concerning Internet information sources and may lack the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Information Literacy, Student Surveys, Information Sources
Information Literacy Standards and the World Wide Web: Results from a Student Survey on Evaluation of Internet Information Sources
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Taylor, Arthur; Dalal, Heather A. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2014
Introduction: This paper aims to determine how appropriate information literacy instruction is for preparing students for these unmediated searches using commercial search engines and the Web. Method. A survey was designed using the 2000 Association of College and Research Libraries literacy competency standards for higher education. Survey…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Standards, Student Surveys, Internet