Петухова Елена Анатольевна, кандидат педагогических наук, доцент, доцент кафедры пе-
дагогики высшей школы и информационных образовательных технологий, Алтайский государст-
венный университет, г. Барнаул, pea739@mail.ru.
Поступила в редакцию 2 февраля 2017 г.
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DOI: 10.14529/ped170207
DEVELOPING INFORMATION AND COMPUTER LITERACY
OF FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS WHEN STUDYING COMPUTER SCIENCE
G.V. Kravchenko, kravchenko@math.asu.ru,
E.A. Petukhova, pea739@mail.ru
Altai State University, Barnaul, Russian Federation
Contemporary education is mainly aimed at students’ acquiring the level that would be
enough to realise their potential and to guarantee the progress in the development of modern so-
ciety. Modern well-educated society should be literate. Functional literacy is of great importance
amidst all kinds of literacy.
The notion of functional literacy is widely discussed since it is considered to be an integrated
characteristic of the quality of the students’ training. Developing functional literacy is a long
process and it is present at any course taken at university.
The paper describes the developing of two kinds of functional literacy: information and
computer ones. Nowadays, information is a major resource in the society and the computer
becomes a major tool to build an information society. Improving personal computers and deve-
loping software contribute to using computers in almost every aspect of our lives. Thus, acquiring
information and computer literacy is a prerequisite for efficient life in modern society.
To determine the levels of information and computer literacy in students, we used the following
methods: analysis and synthesis of academic literature, testing, experiment, pedagogical observa-
tion and mathematical methods of statistics.
As a result, the following notions were studied: literacy, functional literacy and its major
kinds. Students’ skills in information and computer literacy were revealed. The levels of informa-
tion and computer literacy in the community of first-year students were described; an empirical
study was made.
The results enable to evaluate the testing systems, that had been developed in accordance
with the Federal Educational Standards, to correct the syllabi of the course of Computer Science
for the first-year students of the Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy, Altai State University.
Keywords: Computer Science, functional literacy, computer literacy, information literacy,
information and communication technologies.
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