Research on the Development of Learners' "Approaches to Information" Framework and its Measurement and Analysis

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K22238
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: :Education and related fields
• Research Institution: The University of Tokushima
• Principal Investigator: IIO Ken 徳島大学, 高等教育研究センター, 助教 (70887570)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-09-11 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 情報リテラシー / 情報へのアプローチ / 心理尺度 / パフォーマンス評価

Outline of Final Research Achievements

As an important factor of information literacy education, we focused on how learners approach problems, or use strategies to search, evaluate, use information during problem-solving. So, we first synthesized these various approaches and strategies and developed “Approaches to Information” Framework and its measurement scale.
Next, we conducted a survey in a university class using this measurement scale. We used correlation analysis to examine the relationship between students’ “Approaches to Information” scale scores and results of their information task. And we used text mining to compare students' open-ended reflection texts if there is a difference of students' description about task-solving processes, approaches, and strategies by their difference of “Approaches to Information". As these results, we confirmed the relationship between students' "Approaches to Information" and some facets of students' information literacy as evaluation or use of information.

Free Research Field

教育学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究では、学習者が情報を探索・評価・活用して課題に取り組む仕方や方略を「情報へのアプローチ」として先行研究を一つの枠組みに統合し、かつ測定可能にすることができた。同時に、学生が「情報へのアプローチ」の違いによって、実際に情報を探索・評価・活用する課題の成果や取り組みにどのような違いが生じているかを明らかにした。これらの成果の意義として、学習者の「情報を扱う際の取り組み方や方略」という新たな側面からの研究を促すことが期待できる。また、学生の情報を用いる際の取り組み方や方略という視点を盛り込むことで、より効果的に情報を探索・評価・活用する能力の育成に向けた示唆を与えられると考える。