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1.INTRODUCTIONIn 1989, the American of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) issued Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education1, which opened the prelude to the official start of information quality Education in the United States. In 1995, China began to study the theory of information quality education, and proposed to carry out information quality education in the main way of Document Retrieval course. In 2002, the Ministry of Education issued the Regulations for General University Libraries, which clearly pointed out that information literacy education should be paid attention to. The Regulations showed that China’s information literacy education entered a new stage. In March 2021, the Ministry of Education further clarified the cultivation methods and overall requirements of information quality education, and emphasized that information quality education is the cornerstone to support the high-quality development of education. 2.RESEARCH METHODSIn recent years, the educational community is very concerned about the development process of information literacy education, and academic research related to this has become an important force to push the development of teaching and research in universities. However, previous literature reviews were often limited to qualitative analysis from their own perspective2-3, failing to conduct comprehensive quantitative research from a more objective third party perspective. Quantitative and qualitative methods are used in this paper. Using bibliometrics and visualization tools, this paper presents the research status and development trend of information literacy education intuitively. On this basis, the essence is extracted, and combined with China’s national conditions, constructive suggestions are put forward for the positive development of information quality education in China and the teaching of Document Retrieval. The literature is from Science Citation Index Expanded database and Social Sciences Citation Index database. The retrieval conditions are as follows: Subject = (“information literacy” or “information education”) and (UNIV * or college* or higher) and (educat* or teach*), The time span was from 2011 to 2021, and the literature type was Article. A total of 777 literatures were retrieved on May 27, 2021. 3.VISUALIZATION ANALYSISIn this study, CiteSpace visualization tool is used for mapping. 3.1Research trendsFigure 1 shows the publication trend of research related to information quality education in International universities in recent ten years. As 2021 is still in progress, the literature data of this year is not complete. However, from the collection of complete literature data (2011-2020), it can be seen that scholars’ research on information literacy education is on the rise as a whole, increasing from 46 in 2011 to 113 in 2020. This shows that the international research enthusiasm and attention to information literacy education are very high, especially in the past two years, the number of relevant research literature has increased rapidly, which depends on the strong publicity and policy support of the international community for information quality education in the global epidemic environment, as well as the urgent needs of the public for the improvement of information literacy skills in the Internet era. On the whole, information literacy education is still the focus of continuous attention in the educational circle. 3.2Research hotspotCo-occurrence of keywords can effectively reflect the hot research in the subject field and provide reference and support for scientific research4. A total of 2012 keywords are involved in the study, among which 1604 keywords appear only once, accounting for 79.72%. In Citespace, the threshold is set to Top N=50, Thresholding = (2,2,20; 2,2,20; 2,2,20), and Pathfinder = (pruning networks; Pruning the merged network), then we obtain the co-occurrence network as shown in Figure 2. By reading the literature in Figure 2, it is found that the research focuses on the cultivation of students’ high-level abilities, such as the cultivation of students’ digital thinking, execution and innovation abilities. And students’ comprehensive ability to understand, judge, obtain and use information and technology. In addition, the judgment, evaluation and behavior choice of self-efficacy are also the focus of attention. At the same time, international attention is also paid to the teaching research of the combination of information literacy education and profession and its influence on professional development5-10. 3.3Theme analysisKeywords clustering can understand the basic theme structure and evolution trend of information literacy education research. The logarithmic maximum likelihood algorithm is used to cluster the closely related keywords, as shown in Figure 3. Six clusters were formed in the literature (Q=0.7782, S=0.9329). The evolutionary paths of research topics are information Literacy in 2013, Knowledge in 2014, and university libraries, inquiry-based/discovery learning, media literacies, information skills in 2016 respectively. In general, the research and development of information literacy education is relatively mature, with more diversified research topics, extensive knowledge coverage and strong interdisciplinary. 3.4Research trajectoryUsing the timezone function of CiteSpace to divide the time-zone line of keywords, combining with related studies11-18, we can get a general understanding of the research trajectory and research frontier of information literacy education. Each circle in Figure 4 represents a keyword, the size of the circle represents the frequency of the keyword19, the line represents the connection between the keywords, and the year represents the time when the keyword first appeared. The initial stage of information quality education research mainly focuses on cultivating students’ information literacy knowledge and skills, cultivating students’ reading and writing ability and critical thinking. With the advent of the Internet era, improving the information ability, communication ability and service consciousness of librarians has become a new research focus. At the same time, teaching strategies are also changing quietly. The addition of new cultural themes such as movies and music has improved students’ acceptance and understanding of information literacy education. For students with professional background needs, such as nursing, biology, chemistry, mathematics, etc., many discipline-specific information literacy education has been added. In addition, the teaching mode has also begun to change, online learning, distance education has become popular. After 2017, improving students’ self-efficacy has become a new research topic, and researches from multiple perspectives have been carried out around the meaning, object, behaviour, improvement methods, and implementation methods about self-efficacy. Since then, in scientific research literacy education, from the design, writing, evaluation of scientific research papers, training students’ innovation ability and scientific research ability has become a new focus. Besides, media literacy has also become the focus of research, and the motivation, effectiveness, methods and attitudes of using media resources as well as the critical ability of media have aroused extensive discussion. In recent years, popularization of information quality education has become a new research topic. In addition, diversified information literacy education is also a research focus to adapt to the rapid development of the Internet era. 4.ENLIGHTENMENT AND SUGGESTIONSThe reform and development of information quality education bring the following enlightenment and suggestions for the construction of the “Document Retrieval” course and Chinese information literacy education.
Information literacy education has a vigorous development space, and will develop towards the trend of general, personalized, intelligent and diversified in the future. Continuing to strengthen the universality of information literacy, further expand the audience of education, and effectively improve the information literacy of the whole people. All these are important measures to increase social benefits and promote the construction of a harmonious society in China. ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThis work was supported by the first-class undergraduate course construction project of Beihang University (42020278). REFERENCESKate, Z.,
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