An Assessment of Attitudes and Perceptions of Undergraduate IT Students on Mobile Information Literacy in Pakistan

The thesis has been conducted to assess the attitudes and perceptions of Undergraduate IT student in Pakistan regarding mobile information literacy in terms of their age, gender and year of study. Four sub-divisions form the basis of the study; Informationally Literate University, Informationally Literate Person, Framework of Information Literacy and ICT and Students. The study is quantitative in nature and makes use of survey questionnaire on Mobile Information Literacy (MIL) as the data collection tool. The sample size consists of five hundred registered bachelor students from IT department at Comsats University in Pakistan have contributed in the survey willingly. The method for data analysis used is descriptive and has been conducted using Arithmetic mean (X), Frequency (f), Percent (%), Post Hoc Test, Anova test and Independent T-test. Findings show positive perceptions of the students about mobile information literacy and no serious difference is seen between MIL as showed by age direction. Conversely, major difference is seen between the gender and year of study level of the students about MIL, which shows that a relationship exists between undergraduate IT students’ gender, year levels and MIL. The female students showed higher level perceptions regarding literacy of mobile information as compared to male students. The 1st year students showed high levels of perceptions for mobile learning while the 3rd year IT students showed the lowest level of perceptions towards mobile information literacy. Keywords: Student’s Attitude, Student’s Perceptions, Technology Literacy.