Development of educational information literacy of vocational students at Guangxi Vocational University of agriculture in China

Abstract

In the global information age, information literacy, as the basic literacy to promote people's independent learning, problem solving, and knowledge innovation, has been extensively explored and deeply studied in various countries. This paper studies the educational information literacy level of vocational college students in Guangxi Vocational University of Agriculture. The objectives of this study were 1) to investigate the problems and needs of educational information literacy of vocational college students and 2) to develop a management guideline for improving the educational information literacy of vocational college students. The samples were 392 vocational college students obtained from Guangxi Vocational University of Agriculture through the simple random sampling method. The research instrument used in this study was a questionnaire. The collected information and data were analyzed by the content analysis method and expressed as percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The results show that 1) the problems and needs of educational information literacy of college students in Guangxi Vocational University of Agriculture were at a high level, and 2) the management guideline for improving educational information literacy of vocational college students consisted of 10chapters. All 10 chapters were evaluated by 3 experts, and the IOC values ranged from 0.67 to 1.00, indicating that the guidelines for the management of vocational college students' information literacy are acceptable and can guide the improvement of students' educational information literacy levels.