zeinab mohammadi; zahed bigdeli; manigeh shehniyailagh
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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the multiple relationships between information literacy standards and critical thinking among graduate students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz.Methodology: The present study is a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population of ...
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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the multiple relationships between information literacy standards and critical thinking among graduate students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz.Methodology: The present study is a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population of this study is all graduate students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, which was 4552 people, of which 204 were selected by simple random sampling. Data were collected using two questionnaires of information literacy Khalil Dezfuli (2018) and California Critical Thinking Test Form B (1998) and analyzed using SPSS software version 22.Results: Data analysis using multivariate regression by ENTER method showed that the components of information literacy (need for information, access to information, evaluation of information, use of information) predict critical thinking and the component of "information evaluation" is the strongest. It predicts critical thinking. Also, the multiple correlation coefficient (R) was equal to 0.42, which is a significant value, the value of the coefficient of determination (R2) was equal to 0.18. This means that predictive variables explain 18% of the variance of critical thinking. Also, data analysis showed that the standard of "intellectual property and property rights" has no effect on increasing critical thinking.Conclusion: Therefore, according to the findings of the present study, information literacy was shown to be a skill that can predict critical thinking. Paying attention to these two skills can be effective in advancing the goals of higher education. In addition, applying the framework of information literacy standards can provide the foundation for critical thinking and independent learning. It is recommended to hold workshops to acquaint all students with information literacy skills and to teach them these skills so that in the future, people can be delivered to the community who are at a high level in terms of information literacy and critical thinking skills. Appeared.
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Aims: 1) Exploring the pragmatics from different aspects such as nature, origin, and theoretical position; 2) Giving evidences and instances for theoretical and practical relationships between pragmatics and information science. Methodology: The document- analytic method was used.Results: The pragmatics ...
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Aims: 1) Exploring the pragmatics from different aspects such as nature, origin, and theoretical position; 2) Giving evidences and instances for theoretical and practical relationships between pragmatics and information science. Methodology: The document- analytic method was used.Results: The pragmatics is a branch of semiotics and linguistics and emphasizes on relationships of signs with their interpreters, also meaning in context. It has been developed by both philosophers and linguists and indicates a change in paradigm. Found evidences for theoretical relationships of the pragmatics and information science are: Fundamental linkage between meaning and information, same science-meaning dilemma, semiotics as a basis for studying the information nature, role of pragmatics in modern views and theories of information and communication, and context as a key common concept. Finally, found instances for practical relationship of the pragmatics with the information science includes: Development of the pragmatic web, applying the pragmatics in information interaction studies, and adapting the relevance theory of pragmatics in the information science. Conclusion: This study is expected to make new ways for information science researches especially in the information interaction era.
Behjat Taheri; Zahed Bigdeli
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Background and Objectives: The propose of this study is Identification and analysis of everyday life information seeking behavior and information environment of Armenians in Isfahan city.
Methodology: The study was conducted through a survey. The target population of Armenians in Isfahan (4000 persons). ...
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Background and Objectives: The propose of this study is Identification and analysis of everyday life information seeking behavior and information environment of Armenians in Isfahan city.
Methodology: The study was conducted through a survey. The target population of Armenians in Isfahan (4000 persons). The number of samples based on Morgan table 300, respectively. The sampling method was random. The tool for collecting data in this study was a questionnaire. Validity of data collection tool was measured using the opinions of experts Accounting and Sociology. Reliability was assessed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient values were 934/0. To analyze the data SPSS 18 software and descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage) and inferred statistics (t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient and Friedman rank test) were used.
Findings: In the case of the Armenian attitude about life, about 5-30% of people somewhat agree, 7/31 and 8/37 percent agreed completely agree to use the information in their daily lives were different. Between men and women in everyday life, there is no statistically significant difference in information seeking (p value =0/06).
Discussion: Finally, with regard to these cases and implement effective programs to Improving the knowledge information in the context of everyday life, culture and values in society's attitude towards them has increased
ُSeyyedeh Sedigheh Taherzadeh Mousavian; Zahed Bigdeli
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Background and Objectives: The main purpose of the present study is to investigate the PIM level and the priority of PIM activities of Behbahan Technological University students. In this survey, the attitudes of students towards the priorities of the students regarding the seven components of Personal ...
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Background and Objectives: The main purpose of the present study is to investigate the PIM level and the priority of PIM activities of Behbahan Technological University students. In this survey, the attitudes of students towards the priorities of the students regarding the seven components of Personal Information Management (PIM) and the priorities of items within each component was determined and their activeness in each component was identified.
Methodology: This survey is of a descriptive-analytical type. Shekari’s (2015) questionnaire was used to collect the data. The reliability of the questionnaire was.089.The population of the survey includes 50 fourth-year undergraduates and 245 masters students, among whom based on Krejci and Morgan table (1970), 181 were selected through stratified random sampling method; 1 to 2.62, respectively. Thus, 50 undergraduate and 131 masters’ students were selected to participate in the survey. To collect the data, Shekari’s (2015) questionnaire was used; which was developed on Jonse’s Model; however, in this study, priority of activities regarding the seven components of Personal Information Management (PIM) were emphasized. The questionnaire consisted of two parts; the first part covered demographic information such as age, gender, and level of education (degree). The second part included 42 questions about “finding information; storage of information; information organization; reserving information; information security; evaluating information; and planning and conceptualization) measured by a Likert five-scale options(extremely high with the score of 5 to extremely low with the score of 1. Of 181 questionnaires distributed, 167 or %92 percent were returned among which 156 questionnaires completed by holders of Masters degree and 109 by holders of postgraduates and were included in the final analyses of the data gathered. Content validity of the questionnaire was approved by 3 teaching staff in the field of Knowledge and Information Science and reliability was determines as 0.89 and acceptable. The Quthe qustionnaires were personally distributed by the researcher. After completion. The questionnaires were collected. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics such as frequency, percent, mean, standard deviation, and also inferential statistics such as One-sample T-test and to rank the components of the variables, Friedman non-parametric ranking, as well as One-way Analysis of Varians (ANOVA) and Multivariate Analysis of variance (MANOVA) were used.
Findings: Students’level of PIM is fair (mean=3.21).The first priority was given to “keeping (reserving) electronic information” and “organization of paper documents” with rank means 2.63 and 3.15, respectively. The "security of information" was the second priority in both formats (rank means 3.60 and 3.56, respectively). “Storing information on peripheral devices” with 5.16, and “evaluation of paper documents” with rank mean 4.91, had the highest priorities.
Discussion: Students use both electronic and paper formats to manage their personal information, and the security of information is of significance in both formats. Regarding the”fair” level of students’ knowledge on PIM, it is recommended to teach PIM components to raise the awareness of students about PIM and to maximize their PIM skills. The results also showed that among the seven components of Information Management, only the component namely ”Information security” was significantly different from “Electronic personal information management” and “Paper personal information management,” (F= 1.946, df= 10, p< 0.05). This difference was in favor of “Electronic personal information management” and in support Shekari’s (2015) finding. It is seen that students are more concerned with “Electronic personal information management” and this type of information management is more important to them. Students are more active in: “Electronic personal information storage”, including storage in proper place, storage for future information needs, and storage on peripheral devices such as C.D., Cool Disk (Flash Memory) than any other activities in this regard. Concerning “Paper personal information management”, “the variable “information evaluation” including “ Sorting(classification) of paper documents, precise control of entry and exit of paper documents into and from the collection of paper personal information, and using explanatory notes to retrieve needed information, were mostly regarded. To sum, it could be said that because the Personal Information Management of students is at the “fair”, this concept and trend is not well recognized by students and most of them despite need to mastering this skill, imperfectly collect, store and organize their personal information and unaware suffer loss of valuable information. Thus, to aware students, training and promoting their performance will help them in this regard. The authors believe that specific actions must be taken to improve students’ personal information management skills as the astonishing ocean of the information available and created each second around the world, according to Simon (cited in Jones and Bruce, 2005) this very massive information causes poor attention and thus poor performance of the people.
Zahed Bigdeli; Manigeh Shehni; zivar sabaghinejad; Gholamreza Rajabi
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Abstract Background and Objectives: Childhood conditions require special care and attention, believing that family, friends, environment, media could be all considered as environmental factors and motives that are related to the child and may affect all related affairs, activities, needs and other matters ...
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Abstract Background and Objectives: Childhood conditions require special care and attention, believing that family, friends, environment, media could be all considered as environmental factors and motives that are related to the child and may affect all related affairs, activities, needs and other matters related to it. These factors can play a very important role in shaping, directing and meeting the needs of children. The child needs to grow in a normal environment, have the necessary support and assistance so as he/she can assume his responsibilities in society and prepare for living as a member of the community. In the process of the child’s learning, many adults are involved. They provide necessary information for the child, so they can play an effective role. The first and most important group is parents who are in direct contact with the child all the time and interact with him/her more than everybody and, of course, will play a greater role in this direction. By knowing children's information needs, they can try to provide children with the necessary information in a variety of ways. Methodology: The main purpose of this research is reviewing and categorizing children information needs. According to the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC), children means up to 18 years old. This research use review-analytical method. First part reviewed researches which focused on children information needs. Much of the research is based on Maslow pyramid. Considering the limitations of access to foreign and international research database, extensive search was made at accessible databases. "information needs" was used as keyword and search was limited using "child", "children", "kids" and "young adult". The articles which paid attention to categorizing information needs of children were considered. Most articles were English and few were Persian. Some of articles which did not provide access to their full text, were requested through a document supply system, some of which were provided and studied. Some of articles were provided by contacting authors and received by email. Findings: A limited number of articles were received by email to the corresponding authors. A few articles were not provided in the ways mentioned, so their study was not provided. These studies are divided into two groups: some of them have focused on children's information needs (for example Farrell (1974), Fourie (1995) and Palaniandy (1998) and the other part specifically defines the information needs of children in different classify. In 1973, a conference was held on the occupational needs of ethnic groups and other groups in the United States. One of the focuses of this conference was to consider the information needs of children and adolescents as a specific group. Walter (1994) went to California, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara to research about children's information needs. Because there is a presumption that the information needs of children are mainly examined by the elderly, the researcher decided to collect the required data from the elderly. Walter in this study found out that the results of his research were very much coherent with Maslow’s pyramid of basic human needs. Walter's findings suggest that children will experience the following information needs during their childhood: self-fulfillment, credit, love and belonging, security. Herman (2010), in his research on the information needs of children, offers the following categories of children's information needs: school related information needs, entertainment and leisure related information needs, personal information needs (problems that the person is involved in, medications, family conditions), information needs of specific individuals (such as children, intelligent children, people with disabilities, people with special problems, multilingualism, indigenous people who are not able to speak in the official language of that area). A review of the research that has been done so far has shown that most studies have focused on Maslow's basic needs for the information needs of children. One of the most important work that has been done to identify the needs of children on a global scale so far has been the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in Geneva in 1959. This article is based on Convention of the Rights of the Child and notify categories of children information needs which are related to: survival and life; social security and quality of life; self-support, abuse prevent; personal and family relationship, friendship; freedom of expression and thought; religious; books, informative sources, media and social networks; health; specialized training; self-esteem, personal and social dignity. Focusing on the nature of children information needs will help public librarians in collection development for children. Discussion: This research showed that needs to know about survival and life, social security and quality of life is one of the most important needs of children, article 26 in CRC was mentioned it. It will be so necessary in puberty and adolescence age. Child needs Information about self-support (article 3 in CRC), abuse prevent (articles 32-37 in CRC) for better deciding about child labor and economic exploitation, drug dealing, children's sales and torture. Information need about personal and family relationship and friendship (articles 9 in CRC) are important for social relations and detecting friends. Children needs to know about freedom of expression and thought (articles 13 and 14 in CRC). Child needs to know about religious (article 14 in CRC) and so he will need religious book, people and place. Information needs about books, informative sources, media and social networks (article 17 in CRC) is important. They need to know about national and international information resources and how to use them. Child needs information about health (article 24 in CRC). Child needs to know about sickness, how we get sick, what should we do with sick people. They need information about specialized training (article 28 in CRC). So teachers can play an important role and school is the best information texture. Child needs some information about entertainment and leisure (article 31 in CRC). They need to know how entertain themselves and how spare their time. Having information about self-esteem (article 29 in CRC), personal and social dignity will help children to know that they are also worthy of respect and have the right to object.
zahed bigdeli; farzaneh ghanadinezhad
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Purpose. the purpose of this research is to analyze scientific information sharing of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz faculty in social networks.Method. This study which is conducted through quantitative and qualitative methods, is an applied research in terms of aim, and is of a descriptive-analytic ...
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Purpose. the purpose of this research is to analyze scientific information sharing of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz faculty in social networks.Method. This study which is conducted through quantitative and qualitative methods, is an applied research in terms of aim, and is of a descriptive-analytic type in nature. The population included all faculty members of Shahid Chamran University. Interview was also applied to complete the information gathered through the questionnaire. Findings. The findings showed that most respondents spend less than 30 minutes daily to share scientific information through social networks. Among different capabilities of social networks, respondents mostly use their personal profiles to share their publications and interests. The most important barriers for them to use the social networks is lack of instruction on how to use social networks to share scientific information.Results. Using social networks among faculty members will encourage them to share scientific information and exchange ideas, and hence, help to develop science, create new information, and increase scientific production.
ُSeyyedeh Sedigheh Taherzadeh Mousavian; Zahed Bigdeli
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Aim. The main purpose of this research is to study the historical trend of user education in libraries and the competencies required for teacher-librarians to teach. It also aims to survey the viewpoints of academic librarians at Shahid Chamran and Jundi Shapur University of Medical Sciences in Ahvaz.Method. ...
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Aim. The main purpose of this research is to study the historical trend of user education in libraries and the competencies required for teacher-librarians to teach. It also aims to survey the viewpoints of academic librarians at Shahid Chamran and Jundi Shapur University of Medical Sciences in Ahvaz.Method. For the first part of the study, the literature was reviewed; For the second part of the paper, an author-designed questionnaire was used. The validity of the questionnaire was approved by 4 teaching staffs in the fields of LIS and psychology. The reliability of the questionnaire was determined by Cronbach's Alpha which was 0.91 for men, 0.79 for women, and 0.90 for the whole scale. Of 80 questionnaires distributed, 56 questionnaires were used in analyses using SPSS 19. Results. The results showed that librarians totally assessed their competency for teaching as "moderate"; the only item being "high" was "enjoying teaching others". Using Friedman rank test, it was revealed that respondents ranked the items "enjoying teaching others", " teaching competency", and "ability to transfer the concepts to others" as the first, the second, and the third in terms of importance, respectively. The 13th, the last, was "being familiar with designing exam questions".Keywords: reference librarians; user education; teacher-librarians' competencies; academic libraries
Zeynab farizadeh; Zahed Bigdeli
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Purpose. The purpose of this research was to investigate the role of modeling in the field of information behavior. Method/approach. the type of This study is a library- documentary one. Findings. The findings of the study showed that modeling in the field of information behavior helps to understand ...
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Purpose. The purpose of this research was to investigate the role of modeling in the field of information behavior. Method/approach. the type of This study is a library- documentary one. Findings. The findings of the study showed that modeling in the field of information behavior helps to understand when, why, and how information-seeking happens. It also helps as an instrument for information management, evaluation and/or improvement of organization and information retrieval, as well as to understand various behaviors of users. Conclusion. the results of the study indicate that Models are useful in describing and predicting the phenomena; they could be used in identifying complex problems such as human information behavior. Due to the representation power, anatomical characteristics, and the ability to connect scientific theories and the real world, models can work as powerful element in the process of information behavior research. Keywords. Modeling; information behavior; types of models; modeling applications
Afshin Hamdipour; Zahed Bigdeli
Volume 6, Issue 14 , August 2015, , Pages 1-18
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Purpose: Adoption and diffusion of innovation is one of the indicators of community progress. Innovation is a process in which ideas and new methods are created or developed. The aim of this study was to visualize the scientific structure of innovation diffusion during 1990 – 2011. Method: The ...
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Purpose: Adoption and diffusion of innovation is one of the indicators of community progress. Innovation is a process in which ideas and new methods are created or developed. The aim of this study was to visualize the scientific structure of innovation diffusion during 1990 – 2011. Method: The research method was scientometrics. During the period of 1990-2011, 3180 records were extracted in WoS and necessary analyses were performed on them. Findings: Results showed that the collaboration coefficient from 0.204 in 1990 raised to 0.508 in 2011 and the average of collaboration coefficient was 0.378 for the whole period. Due to the critical value at confidence level of 95% (0.0177> 0.8578), it can be said that the present work is in accordance with Lutka’s law. The fields of Management with 796 records (25%), Commerce with 546 records (17.2%), and Economy with 428 records (13.5%), ranked first to third respectively in order to diffusion of innovation research publishing. among 81 countries that have produced documents related to the diffusion of innovation, findings showed that over 57 percent were produced in the US and England. Iran with a production of 7 records (% 2.0) in this field ranked 34th. Results: The present study revealed significant correlation existing between cumulative annual frequency of scientific outputs, and year of study. An exponential regression was applied to model the high correlation between cumulative number of documents and the year of study. Using the regression equation, it can be estimated that in 2015, the number of scientific publications on this topic will be twice of the number of publications in 2006. Finally, by the scientific mapping of innovation diffusion on a global basis (GCS), eight clusters were identified and introduced.
