Abstract:
The purposes of this poster were to assess information literacy skills (IL) among undergraduate students of
Banditpatanasilpa Institute with regard to the ACRL standards, and to compare IL skills with the factor
variables and their gender, year of study, faculty, grade, and most information source usage and self-direct
learning. The Purposive sampling was used to select 366 undergraduate students. The research instrument was
an IL test. The data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics, including a t-test, F-test (One way
ANOVA and post hoc) comparison using the Scheffe’s test. The results revealed that the students had a medium
level of information literacy (Mean = 2.43). The comparison of the students’ IL and their gender, year of study,
faculty, grade, and most information source usage found that there were different information literacy skills
with a statistical a significance of .01 and .05. The female students were higher information literacy level than
the male students. The first-year students were higher information literacy level than the second-year, thirdyear
and fourth-year students. The students of Faculty of Art Education were higher information literacy than
the students of Faculty of Music and Drama and Faculty of Fine Arts. The high-grade level students were higher
information literacy than the medium and low-grade levels students. The students most using the Internet,
places and persons as information sources were higher information literacy than the students who used the
institutional information sources. Therefore, students with different levels of self-direct learning did not differ
in terms of their IL skills. These findings demonstrated that the performing and fine arts students needed more
support with information literacy as the context of curricula.
