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Faculty perception and practices in health sciences information literacy instruction in Tanzania

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dc.creator Lwoga, Edda Tandi
dc.date 2019-05-11T10:04:54Z
dc.date 2019-05-11T10:04:54Z
dc.date 2013-03-09
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-20T08:35:08Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-20T08:35:08Z
dc.identifier Lwoga, Edda Tandi Dr, "Faculty perceptions and practices in health sciences information literacy instruction in Tanzania" (2013). Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal).
dc.identifier http://dspace.cbe.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/180
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/79308
dc.description This study assessed the information literacy (IL) instruction perceptions and practices of faculty at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania. An online survey was distributed to all faculty members in five schools and one institute at MUHAS (235 in total) from 2011 to 2012, with a response rate of (34.5 percent). The study findings show a general support for IL development, and its importance in enabling students to do librarybased research. To a large extent, faculty believed that the IL competencies of students, including their ability to find, use and evaluate information, was average at the lower levels (first and second year students), and improved at the upper levels (third year undergraduates, and all postgraduates). Although faculty usually asked their students to conduct library research for their course assignments, students did not make sufficient use of library due to inadequate IL skills. Although faculty did not often collaborate with librarians in teaching IL, faculty believed that IL should be an independent, mandatory and credit earning course, and it should be taught by either a librarian only or undertaken collaboratively by both instructors and librarians. Faculty also indicated having seen some impact on the improvement in their students’ research process after receiving library instruction. Based on the survey results, the study recommends the following: Universities should embed IL programmes into institutions, and librarians should include IL in professional development courses for teaching IL to faculty, use more proactive and interpersonal marketing strategy to promote IL, conduct regular IL needs assessment, use a flexible pedagogical approach and participative, studentcentred methods in teaching and developing IL curricula, and expand the sources in which IL articles are published
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dc.language en
dc.publisher College of Business Education
dc.subject information literacy, library-based research, Tanzania, health sciences, University
dc.subject information literacy
dc.subject library-based research
dc.subject Tanzania
dc.subject health sciences
dc.subject University
dc.title Faculty perception and practices in health sciences information literacy instruction in Tanzania
dc.type Article


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