Subsequent Learning for Information Processing Skills After Pre-University Level and its Implications

Individual universities have been seeking for better ways of teaching information processing skills. In order to grasp what first year students at Nagasaki University have learned and acquired as to computer related skills, the following study has been conducted since 2006: a questionnaire study of information literacy and computer related skills. This paper aims to show how much the first year students are accustomed to exercises of computer skills and second, to consider effective ways to fill the gap between the knowledge and the skills previously acquired, and the skills required to gain in Nagasaki University. The computer related skills are those which all students are expected to authentically demonstrate before graduation