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Pinto, María; Sales, Dora; Fernández-Pascual, Rosaura – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2021
Surveys administered to social sciences undergraduates at five universities in Spain measured their belief in importance, self-efficacy, and actual knowledge with respect to information ethics and information quality. The results suggest that students exhibit relatively low levels of self-efficacy regarding ethics and quality. The article…
Descriptors: Ethics, Information Literacy, Self Efficacy, Undergraduate Students
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Pinto, María; Fernández-Pascual, Rosaura; Gómez-Hernández, José A.; Cuevas, Aurora; Granell, Ximo; Puertas, Susana; Guerrero, David; Gómez, Carmen; Palomares, Rocío – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2016
This paper examines students' self-assessment of their information literacy, presenting a study involving 1,575 social science students at five Spanish universities. Data were collected and analyzed through a validated instrument that measures the variables of (1) the students' belief in the importance of information literacy skills; (2)…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Information Literacy, Social Sciences
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Pinto, María; Fernández-Pascual, Rosaura – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2017
Restricted to five Spanish public universities, this paper examines knowledge about information literacy competencies--that is, the objective dimension--among a population of social sciences students, as well as two subjective dimensions: students' belief in the importance of information literacy, hereafter called "belief-in-importance",…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Minimum Competency Testing, Information Literacy, Knowledge Level