title: Effect of information literacy training course on information literacy skills of undergraduate students of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences based on ACRL standards.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Information literacy is the basis for lifelong learning. Information literacy skills, especially for student in an environment that is full of information from multiple technologies are being developed is equally important. Information literacy is a set of cognitive and practical skills and like any other science, proper training is needed, and standard-based education is definitely better and evaluation would be easier. This study aimed to determine the impact of information literacy training course on information literacy skills of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences students based on ACRL standard in 2012.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study method is semi-experience with two group design (with pre-test and post-test) and applied. The data collection toll was a questionnaire assessing student's information literacy that developed by Davarpanah and Siamak and validity was confirmed by professional librarians and reliability as measured by Cronbach's alpha, was 0.83. The sample consisted of 50 undergraduate students from Isfahan University of Medical Sciences that by random sampling method was perch in both case and control groups. Before and after the training (once a week), a questionnaire was distributed between the two groups. This training was held in a classroom equipped with computers with internet access and in addition to training using brochures and librarian presentation, interactive methods such as discussion and exercises were used. The data were analyzed using SPSS version 20 software and two level of descriptive (mean and SD) and inferential statistics (t-test and t-paired).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results showed that the students' information literacy scores before the training was lower than average, so that in the control group was 32.96 and in the case group was 33.24; while information literacy scores in the case group significantly increased after the training (46.68). Also, the effect of education, respectively had a greater impact on the ability to access information (the second standard), ethics and legal use of information (the third standard), effective use of information (the fourth standard), critically evaluate information and its sources (the fifth standard).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This study showed that the training was effective on enhancing students' information literacy skills as the greatest impact was on increasing the ability to access information. Due to low mean score information literacy in the context of object recognition, there is a need for more training in this area.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Library and Information, Health Information Technology Research Center, School of Management and Medical Information, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Zohreh
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Karimi
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Library and Information, Health Information Technology Research Center, School of Management and Medical Information, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Hasan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ashrafi-Rizi
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Library and Information, Health Information Technology Research Center, School of Management and Medical Information, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Ahmad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Papi
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Library and Information, Health Information Technology Research Center, School of Management and Medical Information, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Leila
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shahrzadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors.forename: Akbar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hassanzadeh
keywords: ACRL Standards; Isfahan University of Medical Sciences; information literacy; training course; undergraduate students