Enhancement of students' information literacy and competence has become a recent trend to modern teachers. The objective of this research is to observe whether the implementation of information education to a designed university course could improve the students' abilities in their searching, screening, analyzing, categorizing, assessing, and applying information skills. Subjects (graduating seniors of the Department of Nutrition & Health Science, Fooyin University) were recruited from those who voluntarily participated in the designed course ”Food Service and Business Management”. Project presentation, hand-on practice, and assigned homework were used to assess students' versatile performances. Designed questionnaires were administered to students on the week 3 and 13. Implementations of information literacy programs were conducted on the week 6 and 10, respectively. Results showed that students' performances on ”Abilities of searching and screening information resources”, ”Ability of information integration”, ”Ability of information analysis”, and ”Ability of information applications” were significantly improved after implementing the programs (P<0.05). The coefficient of variations (CV) among students in each category were also reduced from the range of 75~81% to 41~62%, which indicated that systematical information implementation to a university course can effectively diminish the difference of learning abilities among students in a class. Thus result indicated that implementation of information education in courses shall have a positive impact upon students' information literacy.
Enhancement of students' information literacy and competence has become a recent trend to modern teachers. The objective of this research is to observe whether the implementation of information education to a designed university course could improve the students' abilities in their searching, screening, analyzing, categorizing, assessing, and applying information skills. Subjects (graduating seniors of the Department of Nutrition & Health Science, Fooyin University) were recruited from those who voluntarily participated in the designed course ”Food Service and Business Management”. Project presentation, hand-on practice, and assigned homework were used to assess students' versatile performances. Designed questionnaires were administered to students on the week 3 and 13. Implementations of information literacy programs were conducted on the week 6 and 10, respectively. Results showed that students' performances on ”Abilities of searching and screening information resources”, ”Ability of information integration”, ”Ability of information analysis”, and ”Ability of information applications” were significantly improved after implementing the programs (P<0.05). The coefficient of variations (CV) among students in each category were also reduced from the range of 75~81% to 41~62%, which indicated that systematical information implementation to a university course can effectively diminish the difference of learning abilities among students in a class. Thus result indicated that implementation of information education in courses shall have a positive impact upon students' information literacy.