The evaluation of information skills in undergraduate journalism Central University "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas, Cuba

Abstract

The paper presents the information skills assesment of journalism students. Objective: To evaluate the information skills development of Journalism students at the Central University "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas (UCLV). Methods: We present a hybrid approach which combines the qualitative and quantitative perspective. Basically we used the action-research method to conduct the evaluation. Among the techniques used there are the questionnaire and focus group as critical. Results: The self-assessment with students involved in research have determined medium and low levels of information skills. The educational scenario of the subject journalistic documentation, was decisive in the transformation of the reality encountered in the diagnosis. The opinions given by students in each session and final evaluations showed the progress of the respondents with regard to developing the information skills.