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Katie Racki; Jessica Peppard; Rachel Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This mixed-method study explored teachers' perceptions of the Living Libraries (LL) professional development program. The study investigated the program's perceived effectiveness and impact on students' reading skills. Additionally, the researchers sought to understand how LL trained teachers perceived the program as aiding their reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Professional Development, Library Skills
Rachel Patrick; Jessica Peppard; Katie Racki – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This mixed-method study explored teachers' perceptions of the Living Libraries (LL) professional development program. The study investigated the program's perceived effectiveness and impact on students' reading skills. Additionally, the researchers sought to understand how LL trained teachers perceived the program as aiding their reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Professional Development, Library Skills
Jessica Peppard; Katie Racki; Rachel Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This mixed-method study explored teachers' perceptions of the Living Libraries (LL) professional development program. The study investigated the program's perceived effectiveness and impact on students' reading skills. Additionally, the researchers sought to understand how LL trained teachers perceived the program as aiding their reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Professional Development, Program Effectiveness
Church, Lori A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of school library access on student reading comprehension as measured by the Easy CBM universal screener test. The population consisted of 5th and 6th grade students enrolled in one intermediate school in an urban school system in East Tennessee. Data were analyzed for the population of the…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Reading Comprehension, Urban Schools, Grade 5
Ray, Stacy T. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In September of 2008 Scholastic Book Company donated content specific classroom libraries to one core team of sixth grade classrooms at Wentzville Middle School in the Wentzville School District. This was the first time that Scholastic had been involved in the concept of "team" libraries. The classrooms involved consisted of mathematics,…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Instructional Materials, Middle Schools, Mathematics Education
Lu, Hsin-lin – ProQuest LLC, 2012
As the amount of information available in online digital libraries increases exponentially, questions arise concerning the most productive way to use that information to advance learning. Applying the earlier information seeking theories advocated by Kelly (1963), Taylor (1968), and Belkin (1980) to the digital libraries experience, Carol Kuhlthau…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Second Language Learning