The Relation between the Information Literacy Skills of Pre-Service Teachers and Their Evaluation of the Trustworthiness of Information Sources

The aim of this study is to examine whether there is a relation between the information literacy skills of pre-service science teachers and their evaluation of the trustworthiness of texts obtained from different online information sources about nuclear energy, which is a socioscientific subject. The study is in relational screening model. The study was carried out by 186 pre-service teachers getting education at science teaching program at Kocaeli University. In the study, data were collected through “Information literacy scale” and “Trustworthiness questionnaire”. Participants first looked at reading texts compiled from original and different sources of information about nuclear energy, then filled the Information Literacy Scale and the Trustworthiness Questionnaire for each text. Findings show that pre-service science teachers have high skill level in information literacy subject and there is a low level and positively relation between their information literacy skill levels and their evaluation of the trustworthiness of online different information sources