EVALUATION OF INFORMATION CULTURE LEVELS FORMATION OF YOUNG TEENAGERS UNDER CONDITIONS OF A SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Abstract

Today the mastering of information culture by the young generation is an important necessity, connected with information progress that takes place in the modern society. The process of information culture formation of young teenagers provides, first of all, the study and evaluation of information culture formation of pupils of this age. Thus on the base of secondary educational institutions was realized the ascertaining stage of our experimental study as to the state of information culture levels formation in young teenagers. The ascertaining experiment took place in few stages. At the first stage the content-analysis of annual plans of the upbringing work of secondary educational institutions and annual plans of the upbringing work of form-masters was realized. At the second stage the author’s questionnaire was realized for young teenagers, their parents and teachers, and the results were analyzed. The involvement of parents and teachers at this stage allowed us to evaluate more objectively and precisely the parameters of information culture formation of young teenagers (knowledge about information culture bases, a desire to receive information and to master it, a striving for share information with other people and ability to interest them in information), today state of information culture in a secondary educational institution and to receive advices as to its formation among pupils of this age category. For the more essential confirmation of the veracity and exactness of the received results of optants questionnaire the methods of mathematical statistics were used (mode, median, mean value and Fisher parametric criterion). At the third stage the pedagogical evaluation of parameters of information culture formation was realized using diagnostic methods, methods of observation and expert evaluation. The fourth stage provided the results processing and the determination of information culture formation levels of young teenagers. The received results of information culture formation levels of young teenagers allowed us to confirm the necessity of technological support introduction as to the improvement of the information culture level of young teenagers under conditions of a secondary educational institution.