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Nielen, Thijs M. J.; Bus, Adriana G. – AERA Open, 2015
We compared students from schools with an enriched school library--that is, one with a larger and more up-to-date book collection--with students from schools with a typical school library. We tested effects of an enriched school library on reading motivation, reading frequency, and academic skills. Fourth- and fifth-grade students of 14 schools…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Enrichment
Findlay, Christine – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2007
In this article, the author relates how she helped organize the Middle School Community Read project, a community reading project for middle school students in her school district. The project aimed to reverse the trend of a community experiencing loss of male readers as they become teens. First, the author and her group formed a small committee…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Media Specialists, Middle Schools, Middle School Students
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Roy, Marguerite; Taylor, Roger; Chi, Michelene T. H. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2003
There has been a national call for increased use of computers and technology in schools. Currently, however, little is known about how students use and learn from these new technologies. This study examines how students search for, browse, and learn specific information when performing an on-line (Web) versus an off-line (Library) search.…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Internet, Gender Differences, Student Attitudes
Baptista Nunes, Miguel, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2014, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Lisbon, Portugal July 15-19, 2014). The e-Learning 2014 conference aims to address the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education