Influence Of Information Literacy On Utilization Of Electronic Resources By Bachelor Of Education Teacher Trainees, University Of Nairobi, Kenya
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Date
2019Author
Njoroge, Kanori, John
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ThesisLanguage
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Utilization of electronic resources is a reading culture that benefits bachelor of education
teacher trainees by directly exposing them to up-to-date and diverse subject content in
motivating multimedia presentations. To utilize e-resources efficiently bachelor of
education teacher trainees require literacy on information need recognition, online
searching, information evaluation and citation and referencing techniques. However,
there have been complaints from library staff and lecturers that bachelor of education
teacher trainees hardly utilize e-resources. This raises concern because the teacher
trainees are not linked directly to enormous and current subject content and this may
lower their performance in the subject. The present study examined the relationship
between information literacy (IL) and utilization of e-resources by bachelor of education
teacher trainees of the University of Nairobi. The objectives of the study sought to:
establish the relationship between bachelor of education teacher trainees’ ability to
recognize information needs and utilization of e-resources; determine the relationship
between bachelor of education teacher trainees’ information searching ability and
utilization of e- resources; examine the relationship between bachelor of education
teacher trainees’ information evaluating ability and utilization of e-resources; examine
bachelor of education teacher trainees’ referencing ability and utilization of e-resources
and assess the relationship between collaborative information literacy efforts and
utilization of e-resources. The study adopted descriptive survey research design and data
were collected using questionnaires, interview guides and document analysis guides. The
independent variable for the study was information literacy while the dependent variable
was utilization of e-resources. Stratified random sampling was used to draw a sample of
370 Bachelor of education teacher trainees. Purposeful sampling method was used to
obtain 30 staff. Education communication experts from the University of Nairobi who
also served as supervisors of the study were consulted for expert guidance on the
construction of valid data collection instruments. The instruments were piloted to ensure
reliability of data collected. Questionnaires and interview guides were administered to
undergraduate students at the School of Economics of the University of Nairobi, and the
results were compared with those drawn from the School of Education. Data were
analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical techniques. The findings confirmed
the following statistically significant association between independent and dependent
variables: improving bachelor of education teacher trainees’ information needs
recognition increases utilization of e-resources; improving bachelor of education teacher
trainees’ searching ability increases utilization of e-resources, improving bachelor of
education teacher trainees’ evaluating ability increases utilization of e-resources and
improving collaborative information literacy effort increases utilization of e-resources.
The study recommends improvement of the following practices: bachelor of education
teacher trainees’ searching ability, bachelor of education teacher trainees’ evaluating
ability and campus – wide collaborative information literacy among staff from different
departments. The study recommends that a clause be included in the University of
Nairobi’s mission statement emphasizing collaborative institution-wide information
literacy to promote utilization of e-resources by bachelor of education teacher trainees.
Further research is recommended comparing the influence of information literacy on
utilization of e-resources by undergraduates in different colleges of the University of
Nairobi.
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