Measuring The Effect of Information Literacy on the Undergraduates' Academic Performance in Higher Education

Information literacy is a necessity to equip the students in higher education to learn more effectively, to develop the creative thinking and to produce a high quality academic material of a course of study. Once they entered university, they have been exposed to a basic information literacy course conducted by the library during orientation week. This course should be held on an ongoing basis by the faculties to ensure their students to have highly skilled in searching, evaluating and utilizing of reliable information sources. A new reform of educational system nowadays has more focused on measuring the students' learning outcomes. This is why the information literacy is essential in the way the students can demonstrate their abilities by applying relevant knowledge and skills to achieve high standards of academic achievements in acquiring a good grade in line with the high expectations of university and job market needs. This research is concerned on examining the effect of information literacy on the academic performance among undergraduates in a Malaysian public university. It is significant to explore whether the information literacy can affect the academic performance of the students as these skills have been embedded into their learning processes for them to be more critical thinker instead of improving their academic writings in preparing themselves to cope with such complex challenges in their future life and at work places soon.