Assess how much students know about using a school library/media center

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.

A report taken from School Library Media Annual, 1993. It is coupled with recent articles on the subject. New and alternative measures of assessment are discussed, with guidelines on how to implement them to evaluate and illustrate the impact of the library media programme on student learning.

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Provides descriptive information on some 3,200 tests for the benefit of test evaluators and others who need to determine if a test suits their purposes. Each entry includes test name and author, an indication of the population for which the test is intended, how the test is administered, major features of the test, how the test is timed and scored, pricing and availability information, and publisher and distributor. Cross-referenced and indexed eight ways. Distributed by Gale Research. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR