Significance of formal instruction for information skills in elementary schools

Many curriculum guidelines and articles have stressed information skills instruction as an indispensible subject to attain a new curriculum goal. However, understanding of the importance of the formal instruction at the elementary school level is still incomplete. The purpose of presenting this paper is to address the significance of formal instruction for information skills at the elementary school level. To attain this goal, this paper has attempted to make a theoretical framework, and then, has examined through experiment whether the assumption was proved. The investigation has proved that formal instruction at the elementary school level is effective for acquiring information skills.
Introduction The New Concept of Curriculum Traditionally, the goal of curriculum has been to transmit knowledge and facts from teacher to students, where students were expected to learn facts as [...]