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Factors affecting university students’ information literacy education: An empirical study using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: With the continuous development of information technology, information literacy education is becoming more and more important for university students. However, information literacy education in Chinese universities is still in the development stage and the cultivation effect needs to be improved. Therefore, this study takes the teaching of Information Retrieval as an example, based on constructivist learning theory and social exchange theory, reveals the influential factors related to the cultivation effect and explores the causal rela-tionship between each variable and the cultivation effect through a qualitative comparative analysis research method with a configura-tion perspective. This study finds that university students in information literacy education can be classified into four categories: context-driven, class-guidance, meaning-realised and motivation satisfaction. For these four types of university students, this study proposes corresponding countermeasures for information literacy cultivation in order to enhance the effectiveness of cultivation.

Source: Journal of Information Science

DOI: 10.1177/01655515231191210

Authors: Meng Wang, Yuwen Hua, Ya Chen, Jing Qian, Lianfu Pang

Institutions: Jiangsu University, Nanjing University, Wuhan University

Language: English

Topic: Library Science and Information Literacy

Subfield: Library and Information Sciences

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, National Social Science Fund of China