
Evaluating the School Library Media Center
Analysis Techniques and Research Practices
- 262 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Evaluating the School Library Media Center
Analysis Techniques and Research Practices
About this book
Everhart provides practical guidelines and ready-to-use forms for evaluating a school library media center, as well as important results derived in other studies. She includes qualitative and quantitative techniques for the areas of curriculum, personnel, facilities, collections, usage, and technology. She also gives step-by-step instructions on how to create in-house surveys, conduct interviews, and use observation to gather useful data. Conduct research, collect statistics, and evaluate your program with this useful resource. Everhart provides practical guidelines and ready-to-use forms for evaluating a school library media center, as well as important results derived in other studies. She includes qualitative and quantitative techniques for the areas of curriculum, personnel, facilities, collections, usage, and technology. She also gives step-by-step instructions on how to create in-house surveys, conduct interviews, and use observation to gather useful data. For example, there are directions on how to assess information literacy with rubrics. In addition, each chapter gives detailed references, a list of further readings, applicable Web sites, and dissertations. A quick and easy guide to justifying and supporting your SLMC operations and effectiveness, this book is invaluable to all school library media specialists. It will also be of interest to school library media supervisors and researchers.
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Table of contents
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1âGENERAL EVALUATION
- 2âCURRICULUM
- 3âCOLLECTIONS
- 4âFACILITIES
- 5âTECHNOLOGY
- 6âPERSONNEL
- 7âUSAGE
- APPENDIX: Evaluation Tools in State School Library Media Documents
- INDEX