Attaining employability skills by focusing on information competencies : how far are we?

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Author: Sonja Špiranec
• Author: Đilda Pečarić; MBZ: 289154
• Author: Tomislav Ivanjko
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of information and Communication sciences)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Information and Communication Sciences

Abstract (english)

In the employment context, employers give more and more priority to candidates with generic competencies. Numerous studies suggest that information competencies have an important role in generic competencies. However, studies performed in Croatia indicate unsystematic and sporadic presence of information competencies in curricula. The aim of this paper is to analyze the information competencies in graduate study programs at the University of Zagreb. In order to cover the largest number of enrolled students, as the sample for analysis 20% of graduate programs with the largest number of enrolled students were selected from each scientific field (biomedicine, biotechnology, engineering, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences) with the exception of arts study program. These top 20% of graduate programs enroll a total of 41% of the students' quota for the entire University of Zagreb. A total of 27 master study programs were analyzed with a total of 2735 courses. The research results provide a presentation of the current situation and recommendations for the optimization of information competencies in the graduate curriculum at the university level

• Keywords (english): information literacy; generic competencies; University of Zagreb; information competencies
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Published version
• Journal title: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries- electronic journal
• Numbering: vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 979-986
• p-ISSN: 2241-1925
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:196930
• Publication: 2014
• Type of resource: Text
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2022-10-17 13:18:27