Competência em informação dos bolsistas de iniciação científica da Universidade Federal do Ceará: uma análise dos cursos de Biblioteconomia e Psicologia

Abstract

Presents results of a study about the informational competency of scholarship holders from the Scientific Initiation program at the Library Science and Psychology courses of the Federal University of Ceará. The primary objective of the research is set upon analyzing the informational competency of scholarship holders of Scientific Initiation from the courses of Library Science and Psychology from the University, in order to verify how those competences influence the execution of research activities. The investigation that was carried out was characterized as exploratory in nature and is based on methods of qualitative approach. For data collecting it was used a questionnaire, which was sent via e-mail to the teachers who advise those students, who then sent them to the scholarship holders. The collected data were analyzed by means of content analysis technique with the establishment of categories. The results show that the scholarship holders of Scientific Initiation do possess informational competency skills to search, access, evaluate and use information, which allows them to perform their research activities with more accuracy, acting in an appropriate manner that goes along with the projects in which they are inserted in. Concludes that the Scientific Initiation scholarship holders possess the competences needed to act in activities of research in a way that is capable to mobilize knowledge, skills and attitudes to solve informational problems and to take decisions.