Information Literacy based on Self-efficacy Model in Information Needs amongst Undergraduate Students

Ike Iswary Lawanda, Farikhatus Ulfa

2019

Abstract

This paper is about information literacy amongst faculty of humanities undergraduate students in the issue of life skill solving their informational problems. It is to measure information literacy in their beliefs as skill and strategy mean to solve informational needs. It can be done by using information literacy self-efficacy model. Descriptive design method using the survey method is used for data collection and analyzing general categories in 91 students in their last year assignment through convenience sampling technique. The result finds that information literacy self-efficacy in students has a mean of high in the total score of 71.06%. There are seven categories of self-efficacy amongst students: Information needs, information assessment and understanding, synthesis, usage, communicating, evaluating process and results, deciding information resources access and location, strategies of searching. The conclusion about information literacy self-efficacy in solving the problem is categorized high in skills and beliefs. It is significant to university library contribution providing infrastructure for information access and pieces of training and promotions and its services by lecturers to students. Further agenda is materials in information literacy instruction emphasizes information searching strategies that meet the needs such as keywords, Boolean operators, sign instruction and searching strategies as it is a life skill.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lawanda I. and Ulfa F. (2019). Information Literacy based on Self-efficacy Model in Information Needs amongst Undergraduate Students. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Vocational Higher Education - Volume 1: ICVHE, ISBN 978-989-758-530-2, pages 395-403. DOI: 10.5220/0010686000002967

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icvhe19,
author={Ike Iswary Lawanda and Farikhatus Ulfa},
title={Information Literacy based on Self-efficacy Model in Information Needs amongst Undergraduate Students},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Vocational Higher Education - Volume 1: ICVHE,},
year={2019},
pages={395-403},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010686000002967},
isbn={978-989-758-530-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of Vocational Higher Education - Volume 1: ICVHE,
TI - Information Literacy based on Self-efficacy Model in Information Needs amongst Undergraduate Students
SN - 978-989-758-530-2
AU - Lawanda I.
AU - Ulfa F.
PY - 2019
SP - 395
EP - 403
DO - 10.5220/0010686000002967