The Effect of Information Literacy Skills on the Utilization of E-Information Resources: The Case of Akaki kaliti Sub-City Secondary School Teachers

Abstract

The study emphasized on investigating the effect of information literacy skill on utilization of e-resources: the case of Akaki kaliti sub-city secondary schools’ teachers. It assesses the level of information literacy skill among social science department and natural science department teachers, the types of ILS challenges they were facing, their knowledges about basic ILS components, the ILS acquiring methods, and what supports and enabling situations that the school administrative bodies were arranged to facilitate utilization of electronic information resources for efficient and effective teaching learning goals attainments. The sample was taken from three secondary schools in Akaki kaliti sub-city using stratified random sampling techniques to select teacher respondents and purposive sampling for school directors and library staffs, and the quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive survey that include frequency, mean, correlation, and regression analysis. The study revealed that teachers in both social and natural science have lower information literacy skill which was about (M= 2.41) mean score and consequently their e-resources utilization was also below the mean mid value, account about (M=2.43) mean score. All the three secondary school teachers have poor basic skills of computer, network, and digital literacy which was about only 24%, 16% and 18% respondents were have these skills respectively. Majority of the teachers have not got opportunities to learn about information literacy skill, and the school administrator support was insignificant in facilitating e-resources utilization of Akaki kaliti sub-city secondary school teachers. In addition, the correlation r= 0.904 and regression analysis R= 0.87 showed that e-resource utilization have positive and strong relationship with ILS and significantly affected by ILS. The study recommended importance of inclusion of ILS in teachers training curriculum as a compulsory course, and within the CPD program in the schools. Facilities to access computers, internet service and digital libraries in schools must be arranged to create enabling situations to utilize electronic information resources.