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Prediction of Academic Performance of the University Students Through Their Use of Library Electronic Resources and Their Self-efficacy

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Information Literacy in the Workplace (ECIL 2017)

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The objective of the study was to assess the influence of students’ self-efficacy and their use of electronic resources on their academic performance. A survey was conducted in The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan in which 307 students participated from five different faculties. A questionnaire was developed to gather the data for this study on variables related to demographic information of the respondents, their use of ‘library’s electronic resources’, ‘self-efficacy’, and ‘academic performance’. The results of the study concluded that the use of library’s e-resources has a significant influence on the academic performance of the students. However, it has a negative influence on students’ self-efficacy due to availability of wide ranging e-resources. The results of the study also concluded that self-efficacy is not correlated with academic performance of the students, however, it is negatively correlated with the use of university library’s e-resources.

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  1. The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

    Tariq Mahmood Chohan

  2. Department of Library and Information Science, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

    Rubina Bhatti & Salman Bin Naeem

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Chohan, T.M., Bhatti, R., Naeem, S.B. (2018). Prediction of Academic Performance of the University Students Through Their Use of Library Electronic Resources and Their Self-efficacy. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Boustany, J., Špiranec, S., Grassian, E., Mizrachi, D., Roy, L. (eds) Information Literacy in the Workplace. ECIL 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 810. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_57

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