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Examining Energy Information Literacy with an Adaptation of the Everyday Health Information Literacy Screening Tool

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Information Literacy in the Workplace (ECIL 2017)

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This study explores energy information literacy by applying an adapted version of an everyday health information literacy (EHIL) screening tool. For this study, the original EHIL tool was modified by adjusting its ten statements to an energy context. Data were collected with an online survey from students present for the academic year in 2016–2017 (n = 11,381) at the University of Oulu. Statistical analyses include an exploratory factor analysis and comparison of mean factor scores. Survey items on respondents’ background were also included in the analyses. The response rate was 12.2% (n = 1,390). The screening tool’s factorial structure was found to be multifaceted and to resemble that of the original EHIL tool with three factors: motivation (‘motivation’), confidence in finding energy information (‘confidence’), and perceived ability to evaluate it (‘evaluation’). Mean factor scores varied by gender and field of study. The study is among the first to examine energy information literacy.

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The study is funded by the Strategic Research Council, Finland, Project n:o 292854.

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  1. Information Studies, Medical Research Center, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

    Teija Keränen, Noora Hirvonen & Maija-Leena Huotari

  2. Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

    Noora Hirvonen

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  1. Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Serap Kurbanoğlu

  2. University of Paris-Est, Champs-sur-Marne, France

    Joumana Boustany

  3. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Sonja Špiranec

  4. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Esther Grassian

  5. University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

    Diane Mizrachi

  6. University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

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Keränen, T., Hirvonen, N., Huotari, ML. (2018). Examining Energy Information Literacy with an Adaptation of the Everyday Health Information Literacy Screening Tool. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy in the Workplace. ECIL 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 810. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_49

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