The following very useful resources are at:
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/digitalresources/digitalresourcessec3.htm
Each has links to pdf files that give urls and a resource description and crtitique of each of the web sites.
(from Digital Resources and Librarians: Case Studies in Innovation, Invention, and Implementation, by Patricia O'Brien Libutti)
Appendix 4: Resources: Links to Sites in Printed Chapters One through Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen: Education on the World Wide Web: A Core Collection of Digital Resources
Soraya Magalhaes-Willson
Chapter Nineteen: Digital Resources and the Law: Web Sites for Librarians and Educators
Stephanie Tama-Bartels and Patricia O'Brien Libutti
Chapter Twenty: A Webliography of Web-based Lesson Plan Resources
Jeneen LaSee-Willemssen
Chapter Twenty-one: Web Sites on Education from around the World
Patricia O'Brien Libutti, Sheila Kirven, and The WorldED Librarian Cohort
Chapter Twenty-two: Education Statistics on the World Wide Web: A Core Collection of Resources
Scott Walter, Doug Cook, and Instruction for Educators Committee, Education and Behavioral Sciences Section, ACRL
Chapter Twenty-three: Electronic Journals for the Education Library: A Classified List of Resources Related to K-12 Education
Linda G. Geller
Chapter Twenty-four: Web-based Tools for Teachers
Judi Repman, Randy Carlson, and Elizabeth Downs
Chapter Twenty-five: Federal and State Government Web Sites for Children and Adolescents
Janet Stoeger Wilke and Diana J. Keith
Chapter Twenty-six: Networking with NASA
Judith A. Walker
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Canadian Study Links School Libraries and Student Achievement
Canadian Study Links School Libraries and Student Achievement
A study funded by the Ontario Library Association offers the first Canadian finding that shows a positive correlation between student achievement and library resources and staff. Released April 6, School Libraries and Student Achievement in Ontario includes assessment data from more than 50,000 students and over 800 of the province’s publicly funded elementary schools.
Among the findings were:
Grade 3 and 6 students in schools with teacher-librarians are more likely to report that they enjoy reading.
Schools with trained library staff are more likely to have a higher proportion of grade 6 students who meet Ontario standards on reading test scores.
Schools without trained library staff tend to have lower achievement on the grade 3 and 6 reading tests.
Speaking at the Church Street Public School library in downtown Toronto on the occasion of the study’s release, Ontario School Library Association President Michael Rosettis said, “This research confirms what teacher-librarians have intuitively known for years: that a well-staffed, well-stocked, and well-funded school library makes a significant difference in student achievement.” The findings correlate with other studies in the United States that link student achievement with the presence of school libraries administered by certified library media specialists.
The $40,000 ($34,800 U.S.) study, conducted by a team led by Queen’s University Education Professor Don Klinger, comes at a time when Ontario is developing a new policy to improve students’ literacy and numeracy skills. A 2003 report, written by then–University of British Columbia LIS Professor Ken Haycock, had called on provincial ministries of education to begin research that would reverse a trend in underfunding that was creating a crisis in school-library personnel and collections.
A 2005 research study by the Ontario public-interest group People for Education showed that although provincial school boards get one librarian for every 769 students, many schools don’t have that many students. In addition, only 54% of Ontario elementary schools had a full- or part-time librarian in 2005, compared with 80% in 1997–1998.
Posted April 7, 2006. from ALDirect
A study funded by the Ontario Library Association offers the first Canadian finding that shows a positive correlation between student achievement and library resources and staff. Released April 6, School Libraries and Student Achievement in Ontario includes assessment data from more than 50,000 students and over 800 of the province’s publicly funded elementary schools.
Among the findings were:
Grade 3 and 6 students in schools with teacher-librarians are more likely to report that they enjoy reading.
Schools with trained library staff are more likely to have a higher proportion of grade 6 students who meet Ontario standards on reading test scores.
Schools without trained library staff tend to have lower achievement on the grade 3 and 6 reading tests.
Speaking at the Church Street Public School library in downtown Toronto on the occasion of the study’s release, Ontario School Library Association President Michael Rosettis said, “This research confirms what teacher-librarians have intuitively known for years: that a well-staffed, well-stocked, and well-funded school library makes a significant difference in student achievement.” The findings correlate with other studies in the United States that link student achievement with the presence of school libraries administered by certified library media specialists.
The $40,000 ($34,800 U.S.) study, conducted by a team led by Queen’s University Education Professor Don Klinger, comes at a time when Ontario is developing a new policy to improve students’ literacy and numeracy skills. A 2003 report, written by then–University of British Columbia LIS Professor Ken Haycock, had called on provincial ministries of education to begin research that would reverse a trend in underfunding that was creating a crisis in school-library personnel and collections.
A 2005 research study by the Ontario public-interest group People for Education showed that although provincial school boards get one librarian for every 769 students, many schools don’t have that many students. In addition, only 54% of Ontario elementary schools had a full- or part-time librarian in 2005, compared with 80% in 1997–1998.
Posted April 7, 2006. from ALDirect
Monday, November 14, 2005
Welcome!
Hi, my name is Mark Horan, your Info guru, presenting a new communications tool for the College of Education to keep in touch with the University Libraries. In the coming months changes will be occurring all around the University and the Carlson Library is no exception, please use the blog to keep informed and to inform us to provide the best information service and content possible.
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