Development and Application of the Personal Academic Information Organization Level Scale for College Students postprint

Abstract: [Purpose/significance] Taking personal information organization behavior as a whole to measure its ability and result, the paper develops the Personal Academic Information Organization Level Scale for College Students, and then applies this scale to analyze the characteristics of personal academic information organization behavior of undergraduates at Peking University to provide practical suggestions for improvement.[Method/process] In the scale development stage, the initial scale was prepared on the basis of literature review and semi-structured interview, the initial scale was purified by item analysis and factor analysis, and the quality of the final scale was evaluated by reliability test and validity test. In the scale application stage, the paper used descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and variance analysis.[Result/conclusion] The Personal Academic Information Organization Level Scale for College Students includes five dimensions:organization level of computer documents, organization level of paper materials, academic information management literacy, cleaning level of academic space, and organization level of class notes. This scale provides a feasible tool for the measurement of personal information organization level among college students, puts forward a new perspective for the study of personal academic information organization behavior, and develops a new idea for the comprehensive understanding of information behavior of college students.