Investigating the effect of the component (definition of information need) on improving the level of architectural design information literacy

The ineffectiveness of architecture bachelor's degree graduates, who constitute a large community of students in the country, when faced with architectural design issues, is one of the signs of the ineffectiveness of the current education system of the country's universities. Based on this, the aim of this research is to investigate the effect of the information need definition component (out of the 6 information literacy components of Connor Radcliffe) on the improvement of architectural design information literacy among undergraduate architecture students. The research method in this study is the correlation method, in which the impact of several criteria on the target population is investigated alone and also in combination with other criteria, and in the quantitative part, it is a survey approach. The present research was carried out in the Islamic Azad University of Tehran West Branch by simple non-probability sampling method. In order to collect information from the sample population, a questionnaire prepared for this purpose was used. The statistical population of this research was the undergraduate architecture students of this university between 2016 and 2016. The number of members of the sample community is determined to be 341 people based on Morgan's table. Also, spss software was used to analyze the findings. Discussion and In this research, the criterion (definition of information need) of measuring information literacy of undergraduate architecture students was studied. In the mentioned criterion, by examining the information extracted from the students, the extent of its effect on their literacy level was determined and then prioritized. According to the results of the multivariable linear regression fitting, the effect of this component in improving the level of information literacy of the students of this field and course was determined; However, the factor defining the need for information has no effect on improving the quality of education. Therefore, relying on this method, students can be grouped upon arrival and the appropriate educational approach can be applied to them.