Information literacy of U.S. and Indian engineering undergraduates

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Table 2 Spearman correlation coefficients for U.S. ( N = 410) and Indian ( N = 313) engineering students

On average, each day I spend an average of ___ minutes	Analytic		Pragmatic		Transaction		Transmission
On average, each day I spend an average of ___ minutes	U.S.^a	Indian	U.S.	Indian	U.S.	Indian	U.S.	Indian
Doing homework	.021	.073	^b .171 ^.001	.176 ^.002	.043	.004	.041	.149 ^.008
Reading textbooks for my classes	.036	.159 ^.005	.272 ^.001	.168 ^.003	.057	.124 ^.028	.070	.105^.063
Reading other printed materials for my classes (e.g., novels, handouts)	.049	.150 ^.008	.161 ^.001	.110 ^.050	.093^.059	.129 ^.023	-.003	.074
Answering assigned questions from the textbook	-.018	.208 ^.001	.083^.094	.136 ^.016	-.051	.102^.071	.064	.052
Writing papers for my classes	.091^.064	.130 ^.022	.063	.157 ^.005	-.004	.214 ^.001	-.049	.136 ^.016
Working on projects for my classes	.065	.133 ^.018	.079	.159 ^.005	.014	.099^.080	.048	-.016

^aU.S. data adapted from Taraban (2011). ^b p-values signifying the significance of the correlations are shown as superscripts. Two-tailed p-values < .05 are in bold; marginal p-values (.05 < p < .10) are shown but not bolded.