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The purpose of the research was the development of a questionnaire that can measure the behaviour of groups of students (for instance department cohorts) in Personal Information Management (PIM). Variables for the questionnaire were derived from the international literature on PIM. The questionnaire was tested on 79 students (last year before graduation) from four different departments of the Academy of ICT&Media at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. The students’ responses were checked on consistency, item non response, desirability bias and information value of the results. All these criteria indicated that the questionnaire is an adequate tool for the assessment of PIM at an institutional level. The results that have been found for the four departments have not yet been discussed with the managers of the Academy or of the individual departments.
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van Helvoort, A.A.J.(. (2012). A Questionnaire for the Institutional Assessment of Personal Information Management. In: Kurbanoğlu, S., Al, U., Erdoğan, P.L., Tonta, Y., Uçak, N. (eds) E-Science and Information Management. IMCW 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 317. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33299-9_16
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