Review of the Findings Student Learning through School Libraries: The Ohio Research Study by Ross Todd and Carol Collier Kuhltau www.oelma.org 2004.

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Review of the Findings Student Learning through School Libraries: The Ohio Research Study by Ross Todd and Carol Collier Kuhltau www.oelma.org 2004 Abbreviated report by Guenter Schlamp; workshop school libraries, Beirut 11/2007

When effective school libraries are in place, students do learn. 13,000 students cannot be wrong. This quote is a dynamic introduction to all the information gathered from the students in Ohio. The reference to 13,000 students relates to the number of surveys completed to gather the data. To date, this is largest student survey about how school libraries affect student learning.

Student Learning through Ohio School Libraries 39 school libraries participated Grades 3 - 12 Data collected in 2003 13,123 valid student responses 879 teacher/administrator responses

7 “Constructs of Help” How helpful the school library is with getting information you need with using the information to complete your school work (l.L. skills) with your school work in general (knowledge building, knowledge outcomes) with using computers in the library, at school, and at home to you with your general reading interests to you when you are not at school (independent learning) General school aspects – Academic Achievement

Critical Incident “Now, remember one time when the school library really helped you. Write about the help that you got, and what you were able to do because of it.”

Responses to the Survey

Celebrate School Libraries 13,050 students (99.44% of the sample) indicated that the school library and its services, including the roles of school librarians, have helped them in some way with their learning in and out of school (as it relates to the 48 statements.)

T O P L E V S F H 92.36% Q26: The school library has helped me think about how I should go about finding information next time 92.41% Q41: Computers in the school library have helped me do my school work better 92.81% Q14: The school library has helped me know when I find good information 93.74% Q21: The school library has helped me know how to use the different kinds of sources (such as books, magazines, CDs, websites, videos) 94.27% Q34: The school library has helped me learn more facts about my topics 94.35% Q43: Computers have helped me find information inside and outside of the school library 95.10% Q13: The school library has helped me find different sources of information (such as books, magazines, CDs, websites, videos) for my topics 95.95% Q12: The information in the school library has helped me work out the questions for the topics I am working on 96.84% Q11: The school library has helped me know the different steps in finding and using information

89.21% Q28: The information I have found in the school library has helped me become more interested in my topics 89.63% Q44: The school library has helped me search the Internet better 90.02% Q35: The school library has helped me when I do not understand some things 90.58% Q16: The school library has helped me feel better about finding information 90.73% Q17: The school library has helped me feel better about asking for assistance when I go there 90.94% Q15: The school library has helped me find different opinions about my topics 91.05% Q27: The school library has helped me know that research takes a lot of work 92.05% Q33: The school library has helped me get the first facts about my topics 92.07% Q22: The school library has helped me work out the main ideas in the information I find

What the Students Said

“Yeah, the school library rocks.” …a student response

Students’ Voices 1015 I had to find information for my history paper. The librarian helped me search for info in the library by looking through the rows of books, helping me search on the internet for sites, and even looking through what books the city library had on the topic through her computer. I would have never have found the sources I needed for the paper if not for the school library, the public library, and the helpful people who staff those places. They even showed me steps to work through to do the research and complete it. They ran some classes specifically for us.

100 I needed help doing a project for government that had to do with presidents and they had so many books and then the librarian helped me find web sites. But then they gave me ways of sorting through all the ideas to extract the key points so I could get my head around it all 66 I needed to write a paper and I went to the Library where I was ultimately able to write a paper successfully. My ideas were a mess and talking to the librarian gave me a way to organize my ideas and present the argument. I did really well!! I’ve never forgotten that – used it to do many other assignments. Emphasize Student comment #100--Finding websites Ways of sorting information to understand it better. Student Comment #66--Organizing thoughts and presenting the argument. Remembering how to research for future assignments.

1532 The school librarians don’t help me at all like they make me do all the stuff myself and wont tell me where the things are even when I already looked – they show me and make me learn how to find the stuff myself and its hard work!!!! You gotta use your brain, they say Student comment #1532--Read this comment out loud---it says it all! Student comment 4155--Help audience visualize the librarian and students turning the library into a coordinate grid.

School Library as Dynamic Agent of Learning The effective school library helps in terms of providing access to information resources necessary for research assignments and projects, and the role of information technology in providing access to both print collections within the library and resources through databases and the World Wide web What is clearly perceived to be of help is the library’s part in engaging students in an active process of building their own understanding and knowledge – the library as an agency for active learning. Understanding how to do research effectively, understanding how to identify key ideas, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating information, testing their own ideas, developing personal conclusions are fundamental to students constructing their own understanding of a topic.

School Library as Dynamic Agent of Learning Students appear to indicate that the school library – not as a passive supply agency, but as an instructional agency – helps them substantially in their learning.

School Library as Dynamic Agent of Learning What is clearly perceived to be of help is the library’s part in engaging students in an active process of building their own understanding and knowledge – the library as an agency for active learning. Understanding how to do research effectively, understanding how to identify key ideas, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating information, testing their own ideas, developing personal conclusions are fundamental to students constructing their own understanding of a topic.

Recommendations and Implications -- all school library programs provide instructional intervention through a school librarian, which centers on the development of information literacy skills for inquiry learning. -- all school libraries, including elementary schools, be staffed with school librarians who have educational certification and who engage in collaborative instructional initiatives to help students learn . -- all school librarians have a clearly defined role as information-learning specialist.