Title :
Hypothesis and Verification Based Measurement of Information Literacy
Author :
Sumida, Akihiro ; Hara, Yoshinori
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Econ., Kyoto Univ., Kyoto
Abstract :
This paper reports the results of the research and the analyzing into the difference of personal information literacy in using Web search. In recent information explosion Era, a huge deal of information is ordered on Web, but there would be a large gap of Information Literacy. We researched this gap by means of "information literacy test" we had made. This paper reports the relationship to the Information Literacy with each subject\´s attribute. The result is that 30s women shows the highest performance. And we classified four types of information retrieval. Besides, this paper proposes the necessity to provide new type search engine for low information literacy layer.
Keywords :
information retrieval; information science education; search engines; information explosion era; information literacy test; information retrieval; personal information literacy measurement; search engine; Communications technology; Electronic mail; Ethics; Explosions; Humans; Information analysis; Information retrieval; Search engines; Testing; Web search; Information Explosion Era; information literacy; information retrieval; new type search engine; performance;
Conference_Titel :
Information-Explosion and Next Generation Search, 2008. INGS '08. International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Shenyang
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3300-1
DOI :
10.1109/INGS.2008.17