Information literacy, the concept most associated with inculcating the attributes necessary to behave in a strategic, thoughtful and ethical manner in the face of a superfluity of information, has been part of the information specialist scene for many years. As the United Kingdom’s QAA benchmark statements for Politics and International Relations highlight, many of the competences associated with this concept are vital in the honourable struggle to become a successful graduate of those disciplines. This article presents a longitudinal study of a survey used to expose the information literacy levels of two groups of first-year Politics/IR students at a British university and, using the logic of ‘most similar design’, make informed inferences about the level of students’ information literacy on coming into tertiary education.

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政治类本科生信息素养纵向比较

信息素养是与灌输在面对信息过剩时以战略性、深思熟虑和道德方式行事所必需的属性最相关的概念，多年来一直是信息专家领域的一部分。正如英国 QAA 政治和国际关系基准声明所强调的那样，与这一概念相关的许多能力对于成为这些学科的成功毕业生的光荣斗争至关重要。本文介绍了一项调查的纵向研究，该调查用于揭示英国大学两组一年级政治 / IR 学生的信息素养水平，并使用“最相似设计”的逻辑，对信息素养水平做出明智的推断。学生进入高等教育的信息素养。