چکیده:
To meet their informationa needs, people use different tools and technologies which are called the individuals’ information grounds. However, the literature on information grounds is limited to the United States; and there is no research comparing the information grounds of students in Iran so far. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to analyze the information grounds of students in Payame Noor University of Kermanshah. The total population of full-time students in Kermanshah Payame Noor University at the time of this study was about 6000. Using stratified random sampling technique, 361 students were selected to participate in this survey. A questionnaire survey was used to carry out the study. Findings revealed that the most common information grounds used were as follows: house of friends and relatives, university campus, and bus service. Also, the main reasons for using these information grounds are: presence of expert individuals, relaxed grounds, ease of communication with people in the ground, and enhancing the scope of personal knowledge and experience by exchanging information in that ground. The results indicated that there was a significant correlation between the socioeconomic status of students and type of information grounds. Moreover, it was found that there was a significant difference in male and female students’ views regarding the reasons for using such grounds.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Accordingly, the aim of this study is to analyze the information grounds of students in Payame Noor University of Kermanshah (PNUK).
al, 2005, 2006; Counts & Fisher, 2008; Bigdeli, Khojasteh Mehr & Sharifi, 2009; Sheibani, Jamali, & Asnafi, 2011; Bahrami, 2012).
In the questionnaire, there are 23 information grounds used in three main categories: scientific category (including schools, conferences, workshops, defense sessions, libraries, and reading rooms), academic category (including computer centers of university, student associations, campus, university stadium and sport clubs, university mosque, university bus, and cafeterias and restaurants of university), and general category (including waiting area of airports and railways, different queues, house of friends and relatives, banks, parks, markets, barber shops and hair salons, café nets, and public transportation vehicles).
It can be inferred from the table that there is a significant difference in male and female students' views regarding the category of information grounds (scientific, academic, and general).
Table 5 Viewpoints of male and female students regarding the category of information grounds {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} One Way ANOVA was run to realize this significant difference and its results are shown in Table.
Table 7 Viewpoints of male and female students regarding the reason for usiny information grounds {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} To realize this significant difference, One Way ANOVA was run, and its results are shown in Table 8.
Generally, according to the findings of the present study, it can be mentioned that information grounds are: environments in which PNUK students can increase their knowledge and personal experiences.