Determining the Outcome of an Information Literacy Initiative for Postgraduate Students: A Case Study

Petronella Jonck

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Pages:: 157–176

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004514461_008

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Abstract

Comprehensive, national efforts utilising technology in support of remote online learning and distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic are emerging and evolving rapidly, resulting in a need for information literacy training encompassing digital skills for both academic staff and tertiary students. Against this background, there is a paucity of studies that underscore outcomes-based assessment of information literacy training interventions within the higher education context. This chapter thus reports on an outcomes-based assessment of an information literacy workshop hosted for postgraduate students by a funding organisation. A quasi-experimental research design in which a comparison group was utilised to evaluate the outcome of the information literacy intervention was implemented. A paired-sample t-test was used to measure the knowledge increase while controlling for the influence of the comparison group using an independent sample t-test. Results indicated that the intervention had a statistically significant impact on information literacy. More specifically, a 6.01% increase in information literacy occurred which was statistically significant on the 95th percentile. The study supplements the corpus of knowledge by providing evidence of outcomes-based assessment within the South African higher education milieu, especially utilising a quasi-experimental pre-test–post-test research design.

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Higher Education in the Face of a Global Pandemic

Series: African Higher Education: Developments and Perspectives, Volume: 12

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004514461

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 18 Feb 2022

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Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Challenges of Online Learning in African Higher Education

Chapter 3 Teacher Unions and the State’s Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Provision of Basic Education in South Africa

Chapter 4 Higher Education Institutions’ Readiness for Alternative Delivery Modes and Online Pedagogy in the Face of a Global Crisis

Chapter 5 Students’ Learning Styles and Perception of Online Learning

Chapter 6 Responses and Mechanisms for Mitigating the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on East African Higher Education

Chapter 7 Information Literacy as a Meta-Literacy Prerequisite for Teaching and Learning in an ICT Environment

Chapter 8 Determining the Outcome of an Information Literacy Initiative for Postgraduate Students

Chapter 9 South Africa’s University Teaching and Learning Dynamics amid a COVID-19 Pandemic

Chapter 10 Conclusion

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