Journal
JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE
Volume 36, Issue 1, Pages 86-103Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0165551509351198
Keywords
IL-HUMASS; information literacy
Funding
- Spanish Ministry for Education and Science [PR 2006-0367]
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The IL-HUMASS survey on information literacy has been designed, based on and aimed to be applied to a population of students, teachers and librarians holding various degrees in social sciences and humanities at Spanish and Portuguese universities. The case-study method, experts' opinions, and a literature review were used to prepare an initial version that was refined through student focus groups, interviews with librarians, and academics' reports. A final version contained 26 items grouped into four categories (information search, assessment, processing and communication/dissemination) and three self-reporting dimensions (motivation, self-efficacy and favourite source of learning). The self-reporting nature of the IL-HUMASS survey involves a self-assessment approach that has until now been proposed rarely and only in a limited way. This will enable a better understanding of user groups through a mixed analysis including two quantitative dimensions (motivation and self-efficacy) and one qualitative dimension (the preferred source of learning).
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