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Information literacy among Form Five students at the four government senior secondary schools in Gaborone, Botswana.

dc.contributor.advisorLeach, Athol Brian.en
dc.contributor.authorIsaac, Goitsemang Gladness Boitumelo Wadikonyana.en
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-03T11:43:06Z
dc.date.available2011-08-03T11:43:06Z
dc.date.created2002en
dc.date.issued2002
dc.descriptionThesis (M.I.S)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2002.en
dc.description.abstractThe study investigated the information literacy skills among Form Five students at government senior secondary schools in Gaborone, Botswana. The results of the study will be used in the improvement of the Information Literacy Course offered at the University of Botswana Library (UBL). Background information was given on education in Botswana and also a brief history of the evolution of the University of Botswana, an overview of the University of Botswana Library and highlights of the schools in the study. The researcher designed a questionnaire in order to achieve the objectives of this study. A sample of 240 Form Five students was drawn from four senior secondary schools situated in Gaborone, Botswana. Purposive sampling was used to draw the sample. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was employed in the analysis of data. The results were presented in frequency tables, analyzed and discussed. The findings of the study revealed that the students at senior secondary schools did not have sufficient competence in translating information problems into information needs. Their ability to use a variety of sources was not well developed. The study further revealed that the students were not motivated to look for information sources by their teacher by, for example, giving them assignments that required them to use the library resources. Students' skills in the evaluation of the accuracy, currency and authority of information sources were found to be under-developed. The study showed that the students were not given any form of user education at any of the schools. The study also found that staffing problems in senior secondary school libraries contributed to the lack of information literacy of the students. The situation was more obvious in cases where there was no full-time librarian to run the library. Conclusions were drawn and recommendations and suggestions for further studies were made.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/3325
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectLibrary use studies--Botswana--Gaborone.en
dc.subjectHigh school libraries--Botswana--Gaborone.en
dc.subjectHigh school students--Books and reading--Botswana--Gaborone.en
dc.subjectInformation literacy.en
dc.subjectTheses--Library and information science.en
dc.titleInformation literacy among Form Five students at the four government senior secondary schools in Gaborone, Botswana.en
dc.typeThesisen

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