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Research Article

Development and Psychometric Validation of an Information Competency Assessment: The Information Management Brief Scale

Mónica Azucena Castillo-de-León , Luz Marina Méndez-Hinojosa , Magaly Cárdenas-Rodríguez

Today's college students relate directly to the information through which they learn. They are the ones who detect the information they need, sear.

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Today's college students relate directly to the information through which they learn. They are the ones who detect the information they need, search and evaluate it, and also use it to develop academic projects. Information literacy programs have increased in universities to support the development of these skills to students. The aim of this study was to provide an instrument that allows the measurement of information competency in higher level students and generate evidence of its validity and reliability. The Information Management Brief Inventory (IMBS) was developed, which consisted of 16 Likert type items. IMBS was applied to a sample of 1,937 students from a public university in northern Mexico. For the evaluation of the construct validity and identification of the factor grouping of the items, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was carried out. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was carried out to explore the goodness of fit of the model. It was found that the 16 items were grouped into three factors: information management, access to information and information ethics. The psychometric properties of IMBS were adequate.

Keywords: Information competency, information literacy, information management inventory, inventory.

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