Tracing information literacy of computer science undergraduates: a content analysis of students academic exercise. Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, 12 (1). pp. 97-109. ISSN 1394-6234 (2007)
Abstract
Librarians have been using citation analysis as a means to determine the usage of their collection while others have used it look at undergraduate information behaviour. At the
same time, various attempts are being made to relate citation analysis of bibliographies to information literacy competencies by mapping them to the performance indicators of established information literacy standards. This paper describes the analysis of bibliographies of final year project reports emanating from the Faculty of Computer
Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya. A total of 73 reports were analysed using a pre-designed scoring sheet and results presented included number of
pages, number of citations, types of sources used, usage of Web resources, currency of sources and citation style. The contents analysis of the bibliographies indicates: (a) the
least number of citations per report is 6 and the most is 165 with the most number of citations within the range of 11 to 20 cites; (b) there are more Web citations than
citations to books, journal articles, undergraduate reports, Masters’ dissertations and conference papers; (c) there are more citation to .com than to .org, .edu, .net and other
URL extensions; (d) most citations are not dated and most of those dated are from within the last three years with the most current being 2005 and the oldest dated citation
is 1935; and (e) most references have their print citations cited correctly but the Web citations cited incorrectly. Only a handful of indicators could be matched to the
information literacy performance indicators of the ALA/ACRL/STS 2005 Information Literacy Standards for Science and Engineering/Technology.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Information literacy, Citation analysis, Final year project reports, Performance indicators |
| Taxonomy: | By Subject > Information Management > Information Resource By Subject > Information Management > Reference and Bibliometrics Services |
| Local Content Hub: | Subjects > Information Management |
| Depositing User: | Muhammad Azrul Ayob |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Oct 2022 06:19 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Oct 2022 06:19 |
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