Library media program implementation and student achievement

Farmer, Lesley S. J.

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“…The study found that test scores rise as library media specialists spend more time collaborating with teachers when planning information literacy lessons, identifying materials, teaching information literacy skills to students and providing inservice training to teachers. These results are consistent with those of Farmer (2006), who examined key indicators within school library programmes at 60 schools ranging from the elementary school level to the high school level. The results revealed that collaborative planning between teachers, administrators and professional library staff was the most significant factor (.853) in a school library programme to impact student academic success on state standardized achievement tests.…”

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The best way to conduct intervention research: methodological considerations

Eri

2012

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission. Cover: Hanne Baadsgaard Utigard. Print production: Reprosentralen, University of Oslo. A Acknowledgements I am eternally grateful for the thorough, patient, and insightful supervision provided by Professor Joron Pihl, and the many interesting discussions we have had during the long journey towards completion of this PhD thesis-you always made me believe in the importance of the project and helped me stay intellectually sharp throughout the whole process. I am also grateful for the thoughtprovoking and useful comments by Professor Leif Lahn along the way, especially in relation to methodology. Thanks to all the informants who opened up their professional practices and shared their thoughts and opinions with me. Thanks to the Professors and fellow PhD candidates at the National Graduate School in Educational Research (NATED) for the academic and the not-soacademic activities that made the PhD journey both educationally stimulating and a lot of fun! I want to express my gratitude to Oslo Metropolitan University for funding this work. Thanks to my colleagues and friends at the Faculty of Education and International Studies for your willingness to collaborate, for our stimulating conversations, for all the good laughs, and for just putting up with me every day. Last, but not the least, my deepest gratitude goes to my parents, and to Sigrun for being the best mother to our beloved children, Julia and Jonas, and for allowing me to spend countless of hours, days, and even weeks, months and years to complete this work.

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Section: 22 Benefits Of Teacher and Librarian Partnershipssupporting

confidence: 90%

“…(Montiel-Overall, 2008, p. 150) As the quote above illustrates, Montiel-Overall emphasises that to improve students' learning, school librarians need to be an integrated part of instruction and evaluation practices at a school. Farmer, 2006;Hartzell, 2002). The fifth and last theme focuses on factors that create the motivation to collaborate.…”

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The best way to conduct intervention research: methodological considerations

Eri

2012

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“…Stone and Ramsden reported that much of the current research has been around school library resources (Farmer, 2006, Ontario Library Association, 2006. There have been a number of recent studies looking at academic library value and researchers (Auckland, 2012, Oakleaf, 2010.…”

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“…Recent literature reviews looking into library usage and undergraduate attainment have found little evidence of research until the last few years (Cox and Jantti, 2012;. Stone and Ramsden reported that much of the current research has been around school library resources (Farmer, 2006;Ontario Library Association, 2006). There have been a number of recent studies looking at academic library value and researchers (Auckland, 2012;Oakleaf, 2010).…”

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Library usage and demographic characteristics of undergraduate students in a UK university

Stone

Collins

2013

Performance Measurement and Metrics

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Library usage and demographic characteristics of undergraduate students in a UK university IntroductionIn 2011, the Library Impact Data Project presented its initial findings to the 9th Northumbria international conference on performance measurement in libraries and information services . This work demonstrated that there is a statistically significant relationship across a number of universities between library activity data and student attainment. Since then the project has received further funding from Jisc to dig deeper into the data. This paper investigates the hypothesis that there is a relationship between demographic characteristics -e.g. age, gender and ethnicity -and undergraduates' (1) use of academic libraries. The paper will outline the methodology of the research and present findings that show that there is a statistically significant difference, although in some cases very small, between age groups, gender, ethnicity and country of origin. The paper concludes with a discussion of the findings and recommendations for further study, including focus groups with low/non users in order to find possible causes for the relationship that we have identified. Literature reviewRecent literature reviews looking into library usage and undergraduate attainment have found little evidence of research until the last few years (Cox and Jantti, 2012, Stone and. Stone and Ramsden reported that much of the current research has been around school library resources (Farmer, 2006, Ontario Library Association, 2006. There have been a number of recent studies looking at academic library value and researchers (Auckland, 2012, Oakleaf, 2010. These studies have tended to look at the 'bigger picture' and have not attempted to look at possible relationships between usage and demographic characteristics.Exploring and quantifying the social impact of libraries, the 'value for the individual' as Poll and Payne describe it (2006, p.554) is a complex challenge, and usually involves segmenting users and potential users in various ways, including using demographic characteristics. The question is usually investigated using techniques such as interviews, surveys and focus groups, all of which allow the researcher to establish the sociodemographic characteristics of the participants. Projects such as this have often been carried out in the public library sector and have looked at topics such as social inclusion and use of services by certain groups in the community (Bohme and Siller, 1999, Debono, 2002, Linly and Usherwood, 1998, Suaiden, 2003. However, in a review of the literature on use and non-use of public libraries, Sin and Kim (2008) state that, '[w]hilst research on public library use/nonuse has expanded in the past decades, the relationship between different variables and public library use/non-use still appears inconclusive. In addition to the dearth of study testing the supply-side variables, studies concerning user-side variables have generated conflicting findings.' Sin and Kim go on to argue that this is to be partly attri...

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“…Vent (2006) concluded in his study that results of students" summative evaluation are based on student"s visits and consultation of books. Farmer (2006) concluded that libraries closely interferes students" academic achievement.…”

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Relationship between the Use of Library Facility and Students’ Academic Achievement in the University of the Punjab

2019

IJITL

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Availability of library facilities in any institution is very basic; a library"s importance is like a backbone in human body. Academic resource materials are critical for spreading knowledge among each new generation of scholars. Importance of books for transmission of knowledge cannot be denied in any era. This study investigated the relationship of the library with students" academic achievement. For the purposes of this study, academic achievement is measured here in form of Grade Point Averages of students at M.A level during 2016-18. This study also investigated whether library facilities help students in completing their educational tasks. Sample of the study included 116 students of M.A Education (2 nd and 4 th semester) from University of the Punjab, Lahore. These students were selected through purposive sampling technique. Responses were taken through questionnaires. Descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to find out the relationship between library facility and students" academic achievement. Results show that a positive relationship exists between library facilities and students" academic achievement. Students claimed that the availability of academic books helped them in improving their grades and rich library facilities helped students in completing their assignments and other projects on time. The major conclusion drawn from this research is that the students were satisfied with library facilities and availability of books. Their visit to library always helped them, and their visit to library was always useful for them and this habit led them to improve their GPA.

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Library media program implementation and student achievement

Cited by 11 publications

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The best way to conduct intervention research: methodological considerations

The best way to conduct intervention research: methodological considerations

Library usage and demographic characteristics of undergraduate students in a UK university

Relationship between the Use of Library Facility and Students’ Academic Achievement in the University of the Punjab

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