Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBibl / This study investigates the effectiveness of the information literacy education that Master of Business Administration (MBA) students receive at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB). The literature reveals that there is a growing trend worldwide to extend information literacy education to include graduate students. The study uses the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education Competencies as the theoretical framework together with Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process. Both process and formative evaluation was used in the study. A mixed method approach was applied to gather data for the study using a pre- and post-information literacy questionnaire, interviews with the information literacy facilitator and the research methodology lecturer and a rubric assessment of students’ group assignment. The information literacy intervention focuses mainly on ACRL Standard 1, with more emphasis on ACRL Standard 2. ACRL Standards 3, 4 and 5 were briefly mentioned as it was difficult to cover all the ACRL Standards adequately within a once-off information literacy session. The results of the study show that the information literacy intervention was successful in introducing students to some of the electronic resources which is one of the major objectives of the intervention. Students’ scores in the pre- and post-information literacy questionnaire and the group assignment were high. This could be an indication that the information literacy intervention was a success. The interviews with the information literacy facilitator and the research methodology lecturer reveal that little collaboration between the library and business academics is taking place. This lack of collaboration affects the quality of the information literacy education in terms of business academics input in the information literacy intervention and in terms of reinforcing information literacy outcomes in students’ assignments. One of the recommendations is that collaborative relationships should be developed between the library and business academics in order to develop an information literacy plan that will fully integrate information literacy within Masters’ courses.

Diploma thesis focuses on cybernetics and information literacy with emphasis on the human element in these topics. The first part describes cybernetics with its two basic terms, which are information and management, as a theoretical resource for subsequent detection of information, resp. internet literacy among students of high scholls and universities. The practical part includes creation of questionnaire, articulation of hypotheses for factual and perceived level of information literacy and subsequent interpretation results of the questionnaire. Addressing the respondents was held by deputy director of one prague high school, through social networks and also by direct addressing. This part reports the information about the level of information literacy with sense of constraints that results contains. Explanatory power of the results of the questionnaire survey is mentioned in the conclusion of this thesis.

(English) The aim of this diploma thesis is to assess the current state of the educational structure of staff in university libraries on a research sample of university libraries, which are members of the Association of Libraries of Czech Universities. In the introduction, the thesis presents a brief historical excursion into the development of the position of the university librarian. At present, greater demands are placed on the skills and knowledge of the university librarian. The librarian can obtain them by starting school, retraining courses, or lifelong learning. The legislation does not yet specify the requirements of the professional competence for work as a librarian in the library. The practical part deals with the analysis of the educational structure of staff and the management of university libraries. I am interested in their attitude to further education and also what they would appreciate in this area. Data collection is ensured via a combination of a questionnaire survey and subsequent interviews, which complete the results of the questionnaires. Chosen research methods were intended for both groups. The conclusion of the thesis evaluates all findings and offers possible solutions to the problems existing in the field of further education.

(English) The aim of this diploma thesis is to assess the current state of the educational structure of staff in university libraries on a research sample of university libraries, which are members of the Association of Libraries of Czech Universities. In the introduction, the thesis presents a brief historical excursion into the development of the position of the university librarian. At present, greater demands are placed on the skills and knowledge of the university librarian. The librarian can obtain them by starting school, retraining courses, or lifelong learning. The legislation does not yet specify the requirements of the professional competence for work as a librarian in the library. The practical part deals with the analysis of the educational structure of staff and the management of university libraries. I am interested in their attitude to further education and also what they would appreciate in this area. Data collection is ensured via a combination of a questionnaire survey and subsequent interviews, which complete the results of the questionnaires. Chosen research methods were intended for both groups. The conclusion of the thesis evaluates all findings and offers possible solutions to the problems existing in the field of further education.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:58:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jediane Teixeira de Souza.pdf: 908162 bytes, checksum: 2fb753446e02b1d219150cb8ac5039b4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-06-06 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / It s easy to realize the big difficulty that the Mathematics teacher have to deal with the new thecnologic in the base education. Although these thecnologics beeing around us the teaching is still restrict to the blackboard and the chalk and many teacher don t use them. One of the reasons is the lack of knoledge. In this way investigate in what conditions the inicial formation courses apply the activities as in the thecnical meanning of thecnology and softwares as in the way that these tools can be used in the classroom are points to be discussed and researched. The goal of this research is to investigate superior teaching institutes that offer teaching Mathematics courses reliable to thecnological resources, oportunities of digital inclusion and the preparation of future Mathematics teachers to use the TIC as a pedagogical resorce.It was made interviews with two teachers that use the thecnologies in their classes and two coorditators of private institutions, na University and a College isolated. It was also made a documental analyses of the Pedagogical Projects of the teaching Mathematics courses as well the memmorandum book of the two institutions that referer the use of new thecnology. The results show that the two institutions offer material and thecnological resources. The University course offers subjects in the area of Information and Computation in order to instruct the student about the computer s components working and the existence of the aplication of the basic tools of computation, and the subject Information in Education to touch the future teachers about the importancy of information to develop many humans abilities and give practical experience to make a class plan that uses the computer as a thecnological resouce. The College course offers subjects of mathematics formation that use the TIC as educational tool, in order to use the TICs as pedagogical resouce to build the geometrical knoledge and graphics. Althoug there isn t subjects characterized like Information in Education, some Mathematics subjects offer moments of investigation of the TIC applied to the Education by the reading of articles that enfasesing the vantages and advantages of the using of softawares to guide the teachers in how to use the thecnologies in the teaching prectice. However, there is a quetionament if it s enough to offer the thecnological resources and subjects about the mentioned categories to permit the teachers to use the thecnologies in a pedagogical manner / É perceptível a grande dificuldade dos professores de Matemática em lidar com o uso das tecnologias na Educação Básica. Apesar de elas estarem a nossa volta, muitos professores não as utilizam, estando o ensino ainda restrito a lousa e giz. Um dos motivos da não utilização é a falta de domínio. Nesse sentido, investigar em que condições os cursos de formação inicial contemplam atividades, tanto do domínio técnico das tecnologias, ou softwares e suas potencialidades, quanto o modo como essas ferramentas podem ser usadas em sala de aula são questões pertinentes de pesquisa. O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar instituições de ensino superior que possuem cursos de licenciatura em Matemática, relativamente ao oferecimento de recursos tecnológicos, as oportunidades de inclusão digital e a preparação dos futuros professores de Matemática para utilizarem as TIC como recurso pedagógico. Foram realizadas entrevistas com dois professores que utilizam as tecnologias em suas aulas e dois coordenadores de curso de instituições privadas, uma universidade e uma faculdade isolada. Realizamos também análise documental dos Projetos Pedagógicos dos Cursos de Licenciatura em Matemática e das ementas das disciplinas das duas instituições que fazem referências às novas tecnologias. Os resultados mostram que as duas instituições oferecem recursos materiais e tecnológicos. A primeira oferece disciplinas da área de Informática e Computação, com objetivo de instruir o aluno sobre o funcionamento dos componentes de um computador e a existência de aplicações das ferramentas básicas da computação, além de disciplinas de Informática na Educação, com os objetivos de sensibilizar os futuros professores quanto à importância da informática para o desenvolvimento de diversas habilidades humanas, propiciar experiências práticas de elaboração de um plano de aula que utilize o computador como recurso tecnológico. A segunda oferece disciplinas de formação matemática que usam as TIC como ferramenta educacional, com o objetivo de utilizar as TIC como recurso pedagógico para a construção dos conhecimentos geométricos e gráficos. Apesar de não possuir disciplinas que se caracterizem com a Informática na Educação, algumas disciplinas de Matemática oferecem momentos em que se propõem a investigação das TIC aplicadas à Educação por meio de leitura de artigos que enfatizam as vantagens e desvantagens do uso de softwares e a orientação dos licenciandos de como utilizar as tecnologias na prática docente. Entretanto, questionamos se é suficiente o oferecimento de recursos tecnológicos e disciplinas que contemplem as categorias mencionadas, para que os licenciandos utilizem as tecnologias pedagogicamente

<p>The aim of the research project is to investigate the effectiveness of an information literacy intervention for first year engineering students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Information literacy has been identified as a necessary outcome of tertiary education. It refers to the life-long learning competencies of finding and using information in order to solve problems, to make decisions and to create new knowledge. Information literacy education has evolved from earlier forms of library user education, such as bibliographic instruction, and is central to the mission of academic libraries. However, librarians responsible for information literacy programmes seldom evaluate the effectiveness of their interventions. In today&rsquo / s climate of accountability and outcomes-based education, it is necessary to provide evidence of the benefits of the user education that libraries provide. The researcher uses the American College and Research Library (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, which are internationally recognized and widely used by South African academic librarians, as a benchmark to evaluate an intervention for a group of first year students enrolled for a mechanical engineering course. The intervention consists of two workshops which aim to teach the students to find information relevant to their essays via the university&rsquo / s OPAC, various engineering databases and to teach them how to reference and cite their sources in their essays. The research methodology assessed students&rsquo / information literacy before and after the two workshops with the use of a questionnaire consisting of a set of questions based on some of the ACRL standards. The questionnaire also gathered data on students&rsquo / prior experience of libraries, reading and computers, which might impact on their information literacy...</p>

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<p>The aim of the research project is to investigate the effectiveness of an information literacy intervention for first year engineering students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Information literacy has been identified as a necessary outcome of tertiary education. It refers to the life-long learning competencies of finding and using information in order to solve problems, to make decisions and to create new knowledge. Information literacy education has evolved from earlier forms of library user education, such as bibliographic instruction, and is central to the mission of academic libraries. However, librarians responsible for information literacy programmes seldom evaluate the effectiveness of their interventions. In today&rsquo / s climate of accountability and outcomes-based education, it is necessary to provide evidence of the benefits of the user education that libraries provide. The researcher uses the American College and Research Library (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, which are internationally recognized and widely used by South African academic librarians, as a benchmark to evaluate an intervention for a group of first year students enrolled for a mechanical engineering course. The intervention consists of two workshops which aim to teach the students to find information relevant to their essays via the university&rsquo / s OPAC, various engineering databases and to teach them how to reference and cite their sources in their essays. The research methodology assessed students&rsquo / information literacy before and after the two workshops with the use of a questionnaire consisting of a set of questions based on some of the ACRL standards. The questionnaire also gathered data on students&rsquo / prior experience of libraries, reading and computers, which might impact on their information literacy...</p>

The purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of an Information Literacy intervention administered to first year Faculty of Business students at Rosebank College Cape Town. The exponential nature of information has led to students having access to abundant information which often comes unfiltered. This requires them to be in possession of life long competencies to find and apply this information to solve problems. Recent shifts in pedagogy and curricula have also precipitated the importance of independent learners who are capable of constructing their own knowledge. Student centred methods of teaching employed in tertiary institutions such as, problem based learning, evidence based learning and inquiry learning have necessitated the importance of Information Literacy training towards the development of independent learners. The study assesses the baseline incoming skills of the Faculty of Business students. Two intervention workshops are conducted for the experimental cohort and a post-test is administered. After the post-test the results of the control and experimental group are compared. The study uses the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Standards for higher education as a theoretical foundation. The standards are applied as benchmarks when assessing the Information Literacy competencies. The study explores the following research questions:  Are the Information Literacy interventions administered to the first year business faculty students effective and do they meet the proposed outcomes?  What are the existing Information Literacy competencies of the incoming students in the Faculty of Business?  How should Information Literacy programmes be delivered?  Are the ACRL standards a reliable tool to assess Information Literacy skills and the effectiveness of the interventions administered? The study found out that offering Information Literacy interventions would result in students accumulating these skills. This is supported by the difference in scores between the control group and the experimental cohort. However it must be noted that Information Literacy training is not an event but rather an on-going process. / Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBibl

Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBibl / The aim of the research project is to investigate the effectiveness of an information literacy intervention for first year engineering students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Information literacy has been identified as a necessary outcome of tertiary education. It refers to the life-long learning competencies of finding and using information in order to solve problems, to make decisions and to create new knowledge. Information literacy education has evolved from earlier forms of library user education, such as bibliographic instruction, and is central to the mission of academic libraries. However, librarians responsible for information literacy programmes seldom evaluate the effectiveness of their interventions. In today's climate of accountability and outcomes-based education, it is necessary to provide evidence of the benefits of the user education that libraries provide. The researcher uses the American College and Research Library (ACRL) Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, which are internationally recognized and widely used by South African academic librarians, as a benchmark to evaluate an intervention for a group of first year students enrolled for a mechanical engineering course. The intervention consists of two workshops which aim to teach the students to find information relevant to their essays via the university's OPAC, various engineering databases and to teach them how to reference and cite their sources in their essays. The research methodology assessed students' information literacy before and after the two workshops with the use of a questionnaire consisting of a set of questions based on some of the ACRL standards. The questionnaire also gathered data on students' prior experience of libraries, reading and computers, which might impact on their information literacy. / South Africa