Investigating the effect of the (definition of information need) element on improving the level of architectural design information literacy

Subject Areas : City architect

Sina Ghazizadeh ^{1 *} , Hadi Kaboli ² , Saeed Salehi ³

1 - Department of Architecture, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran
2 - Departement of Architecture, Tehran, Islamic Azad University, Damavand, Iran
3 - Departement of Architecture, Arak, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

Received: 2022-11-22 Accepted : 2023-01-06 Published : 2023-01-06

Keywords: Accreditation, definition of information needs, architecture students, information literacy, O&#039, conner-Radcliffe,

Abstract :

One indication of the ineffectiveness of the country's universities' existing educational system is the inability of recent graduates with bachelor's degrees lack architecture, who make up a sizable portion of the student body. Based on this, the focus of this research will be to find out how the information need definition component affects bachelor architecture students' development of information literacy in architectural design. The correlation method is the research design taken into consideration in this study. In this method, the effect of several criteria on the target population is examined both independently and in combination with other criteria. The Islamic Azad University of Tehran West Branch used a straightforward non-probability sampling method to conduct the current study. A questionnaire created for this purpose was utilized to gather data from the sample population. The statistical population of this study consisted of the university's undergraduate architecture students from 2016 to 2019. Based on Morgan's table, it is determined that there are 341 people living in the sample community. In this research, the criterion (definition of information need) for measuring the information literacy of undergraduate architecture students was studied. In the mentioned criterion, by examining the information extracted from the students, the extent of its effect on their literacy level was determined and then prioritized. According to the results of the multivariable linear regression fitting, the effect of this component in improving the level of information literacy of the students of this field and course was determined;