Arab Educational Information Network

This research aims at investigating the effectiveness of a training program based on discriminative skills of critical thinking for developing on university post-graduate students' information literacy(students who were registered for a professional diploma in special education). The subject: it was sixty students who were registered for a professional diploma in special education. They were divided into two basic groups (one control and one experimental), thirty students each. Research Instruments: Instruments of this research included a measurement scale of information literacy, and a program based on discriminative skills of critical thinking for developing university students' information literacy. Research Findings: There is a statistically significant difference between the mean score of the experimental group in the pre-test and that of the post-test on the information literacy scale. There is a statistically significant difference between the mean score of the experimental group and that of the control group on the posttest information literacy scale. (Published abstract)