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CONTRERAS-CAZAREZ, Carlos René  e  CAMPA-ALVAREZ, Reyna de los Ángeles. Instrumental design and validation of a questionnaire for information competence in university students. Sinéctica [online]. 2022, n.59, e1428.  Epub 13-Fev-2023. ISSN 2007-7033.  https://doi.org/10.31391/s2007-7033(2022)0059-015.

The primary objective of this research is based on the design and validation of an instrument to assess informational competence from the self-perception of university students in Mexico. The study underlies the positivist paradigm with a quantitative approach. The research is descriptive-correlational, with an instrumental type design. An ad hoc questionnaire was applied to a sample of 1,260 higher education students from the northwestern region of Mexico from public and private institutes during the period 2021-2022. The instrument evaluates four dimensions of informational competence: search, treatment, evaluation and communication of information. The results of the reliability analysis of the total instrument showed a Cronbach’s alpha of .86. The manifestation tests showed a moderate to strong association between the dimensions of self-perceived informational competence with a significance level of 0.01. Among the conclusions, an adaptation of the questionnaire successfully tested by showing internal consistency in each of the dimensions analyzed and the overall instrument stands out. As a recommendation for further studies, the application of other designs and scopes of research, such as explanatory and/or experimental, is proposed in order to increase precision.

Palavras-chave : informational competence; university students; higher education; evaluation instruments; validity.

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