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The study investigates the current state of information demands and the information-seeking behavior of Urdu literary students using digital technologies. Another purpose of the study was to determine the level of satisfaction with both the existing facilities and resources. A quantitative survey method of research is used to achieve the study’s ob...
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... Several researchers (Baro et al., 2011;Haider and Ya, 2021;Khanum and Bashir, 2021) have identified that undergraduates are lacking ICT and searching skills. In contrast, Allari et al. (2022) claim that students have good technological abilities to acquire the desired information. ...
... According to Carter-Templeton et al. (2013), undergraduates have a poor level of identification of information sources, uncertain level of recognition of information and use of scholarly work, and limited abilities to assess and use information for tests, examinations, assignments and writing research papers. A similar situation is evident in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2010;Hussain et al., 2022;Khanum and Bashir, 2021;Kousar and Mahmood, 2013;Rafique and Khan, 2018). However, based on a study of a Pakistani university, Zeeshan et al. (2020) claim that senior undergraduates possess the skills to locate, search and authenticate retrieved information. ...
Students who possess information competency are better equipped to use the large volumes of data at their disposal and think critically and creatively. This study aims to address the research gap in Pakistani higher education by examining the information competency of undergraduate students at a premier university. A cross-sectional survey was conducted with 669 undergraduates, using descriptive and inferential statistics to draw inferences. The study found that students perceived their information competency to be slightly higher than average, with no significant difference based on gender or academic year. The subject domain significantly predicted students’ information competency level, with engineering students expressing higher information competency levels than students from other disciplines. The social sciences group of students reported feeling less information competent compared to the other five groups. The study addresses the literature gap and provides crucial measures for academicians and library practitioners to create effective digital and information literacy programmes for university students.
... It should be noted that domain of information seeking behaviours varies from one study to another. Studies on information seeking behaviours of undergraduate students, not focusing on special-need students, explore information seeking behaviours by measuring source of information [14], [15], [16], [17], motives and barriers for information seeking [14,17], access to information sources and satisfaction with the information quality and quantity or with service providers [15,17]. The studies of information seeking behaviours also include Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills, communication skills, and word processing in the study measurements [14]. ...
... It should be noted that domain of information seeking behaviours varies from one study to another. Studies on information seeking behaviours of undergraduate students, not focusing on special-need students, explore information seeking behaviours by measuring source of information [14], [15], [16], [17], motives and barriers for information seeking [14,17], access to information sources and satisfaction with the information quality and quantity or with service providers [15,17]. The studies of information seeking behaviours also include Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills, communication skills, and word processing in the study measurements [14]. ...
... It means that they can process information better in the form of texts. This finding corresponds to the findings of previous studies that suggest the importance of text-based sources of information [14][15][16][17]. ...
This article discusses the early findings of a qualitative study on information-processing behaviors in using a Learning Management System (LMS) among undergraduate students with intellectual disabilities. The study focuses on how special-need students seek, discern, and make use of academic and non-academic information in the process of learning. Students with intellectual disabilities have limitations in getting and understanding lectures and instructions from lecturers or academic support staff. While the presence of a Learning Management System (LMS) highly assists students in the learning process, a specific approach must be used to cater to their needs. Data from qualitative interviews and observation of a group of students with diverse intellectual disabilities in an Indonesian university shows the evidence. The findings suggest three views of information processing abilities and attitudes toward information exhibited by students with learning disabilities.
Modern pedagogical education is aimed at improving future specialists’ professional competence, competitiveness, self-realization and most importantly, at providing them opportunities to do research and develop their knowledge. In this case, one of the main tasks of the educational institution is to train the future specialist to learn and study, to be able to navigate in the constantly changing flow of information, to think critically and creatively. This is because informational competence has an important role in forming the individuality of the future specialist, in their personal experience when fulfilling professional requirements and in improving their professional qualifications. That is the possibilities and the role of the content of elective subjects, student centers, educational institution's newspaper and official social networks as means of mass media in developing future specialists’ information competence. Domestic and foreign scientific works within the scope of the topic were studied, data were compared and systematized. Based on the analysis of the results of the student survey method, conclusions were made regarding the development of information competence of students in higher education institutions, and recommendations for the development of information competence of future teacher-psychologists were given.
This study aimed to find out how information seeking behavior of English Literature major students from Diponegoro University using internet to completing their college assignments. This study used qualitative method and purposive sampling in selecting informants with semi-structured interview as a data collection. The interview conducted on 12 undergraduate students from Diponegoro University’s English Literature major. This study used thematic analysis in analyzing the data. The results of this study show that undergraduate students from Diponegoro University’s English Literature major need information that can help them completing their college assignments which can be found by conducting information seeking activities. Information seeking activities carried out by these students used internet with sources such as search engine Google, scientific journals sites, downloadable literary works sites, sites that provide information related to literary works, movie streaming apps and social media. Information seeking activities are carried out by determining the sources, seeking information, selecting information, evaluating information, checking the credibility of information, monitoring the development of information and applying it to their college assignments. The problem that students experienced while doing information seeking activities is a certain kinds of information that are difficult to find.
