The effect of teaching informational literacy on the educational performance of MA students’ of educational sciences, counseling, and psychology at Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch in educational year 1389-1390 (2010-2011)

The present article is aimed at examining the potential effect of informational literacy on the educational performance of MA students’ of educational sciences, counseling, and psychology at Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch. The research methodology was descriptive and of scientific-comparative type. Data collection was accomplished through field methods by using researcher-made questionnaires. The questionnaires were confirmed and validated by experts and experienced researchers and its Cronbach’salpha reliability index was estimated to be .79 in a sample containing 30 respondents. The main sample of the study consisted of 253 MA candidates in educational year 1389-1390 (2010-2011). Their views of the research topic were collected and investigated. After considering the related literatures, three components of informational literacy were recognized as finding information, using information, and motivation. Through employing regression models and correlational analysis, the relationship between teaching informational literacy and educational performance was determined. The results suggest that there is no significant difference between students of various academic disciplines in terms of their informational literacy.