A study on information literacy of elementary school teachers

The fast development of the network has caused a great impact on teachers who engage in the forefront educational works. For conforming to the demand of the internet era, it is an inevitable trend to train the teachers themselves to acquire the basic information literacy. In order to provide references for relevant units to initiate teachers' professional training programs, this study, through questionnaire, explored current situation about the information literacy of elementary teachers, and analyzed the relationship between the information literacy and the personal background. Based on the "The Indexes of Information Literacy of Teachers in Elementary and Secondary Schools" promulgated by the Ministry of Education, the questionnaire was developed and sent to 120 elementary teachers in Kaohsiung Taiwan. This research found that "professional literacy of information curriculum", "operational literacy of computer software", "basic literacy of the application to web-based instruction in disciplines", and "whole information literacy" are related to sex, ages, total service years, and weekly hours of computer usage.