Investigating the relationship between information literacy and academic performance among students
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Background: Nowadays, no student can ever pursue the ends of his studies unless he makes use of his information literacy skills. To become lifelong learners, they do need these skills. Information literacy is a set of information needed for searching, retrieval, evaluating, and making best use of information. This study uncovers the relationship between information literacy and academic performance among students at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Materials and Methods: This is a practical study using a survey method. All MA students in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences make the statistical population for this study, according to the sample size determined by using Cochran formula 265 samples that were selected by stratified random sampling. Data collection was through information literacy questionnaires designed by Davarpanah and Siamak, verified by Library and Information Sciences experts; and finally, gave a Cronbach's alpha of 0.83. To determine academic performance, the average scores of the students in previous semesters were considered. Results: The information literacy of all other students was significantly higher than medium except for students at Nursing and Nutrition faculties. The students of Management and Information Sciences faculty had the highest level of information literacy and students of nutrition faculty were attributed with the least level. There was no significant difference between male and female students’ information literacy. We also found out that there was a significant positive relationship between information literacy and students’ academic performance in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. Conclusion: Information literacy is one of the most important factors that leads to educational success. As there is a significant positive relationship between information literacy and students’ academic performance, we should necessarily provide them with relative skills dealing with information literacy to improve their academic performance.
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- Authors
- Soleymani, M. R.
- Affiliations
- Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (IR)
- Corresponding author
- Soleymani, Mohammad Reza
- Venue
- Journal of Education and Health Promotion
- Published
- 2014-08
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 95-95
- ISSN
- 2277-9531 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4165104
- OpenAlex
- W1534217541
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 20.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Journal of Education and Health Promotion (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Information Literacy
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Sciences Research and Education
- Keywords
- information literacy, academic performance, medical students, lifelong learning, information retrieval, information evaluation, nursing students, nutrition students, gender differences, university students
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