Information and Knowledge Theories
Marzieh Yari Zanganeh
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of teaching information literacy skills on social intelligence and the level of students' self-efficacy in problem solving. The current research was of applied type and experimental method with pre-test-post-test with control group (Solomon ...
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The aim of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of teaching information literacy skills on social intelligence and the level of students' self-efficacy in problem solving. The current research was of applied type and experimental method with pre-test-post-test with control group (Solomon design). The statistical population of Islamic Azad University master's students in the academic year 2021-2022 and the research sample was determined by 76 people based on the Karjesi and Morgan table. which were classified into four groups of 19 people and randomly divided into two experimental and proof groups of humanities and engineering by random sampling method. To collect information, the Tromso Social Intelligence Questionnaire (2001) and the General Self-Efficacy Questionnaire of Sherer et al. (1982) were used. Its content validity and reliability have been confirmed by Cronbach's alpha of 0.78 and 0.73, respectively Analysis of covariance and t -test were used to analyze the data.The findings of the research showed that information literacy skills training has a positive effect in increasing the level of social intelligence in the participants of the experimental groups, also the results of the test showed that information literacy skills training had a significant effect on students' self-efficacy in the post-exam stage, but there was a difference between the majors in terms of social intelligence and the students' self-efficacy was not observed. The results of the research emphasize the beneficial effect of information literacy skills training in improving the social intelligence to increase their level of self-efficacy to problem solving.
