Information Literacy for Postgraduate students in accessing information: The College of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Mosul: A Case Study
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The current study is an endeavor to explore the information awareness reality for the higher studies students at the College of Computer and Mathematics at the University of Mosul and to present a clear vision of the nature of this awareness, identifying its aspects and investigating its level in the academic society, in addition to identifying the research challenges that the higher studies students may encounter in their attempt to get the information. The study aimed at identifying the effect of the skills the students have on organizing the information, formulating it, and presenting it properly after obtaining it. The study used the survey-descriptive methodology, as it suits this type of study. It also used the questionnaire form as a main tool to collect the data, as eighty-six (86) questionnaire forms were distributed to the study population that was manifested by higher studies students (high diploma, master's, and Ph.D. students) at the College of Computer and Mathematics, University of Mosul.
The study reached a set of findings, the most prominent of which is that the most urgent reason for the students’ need for information and searching for it is to solve a scientific or research problem, basically with a percentage of 94% of the study population. On the other hand, the achievement and fulfillment of the research and studies came in the second order with a percentage of 88% of the population in question.
Moreover, the study submitted a set of suggestions, the most important of which is the necessity to teach the information awareness skills as a curriculum or a textbook to be added to the scientific research curricula at the colleges of the University of Mosul.
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