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Direct linkKleijnen, Ellen; Huysmans, Frank; Elbers, Ed – SAGE Open, 2015
The educational achievement of children from non-Western migrant families in the Netherlands and other Western countries lags behind that of natives, especially when it comes to language proficiency and reading ability. This literature review pinpoints what is known and what is as yet unknown about reducing learning disadvantages through school…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Library Role, Disadvantaged Youth, Children
Download full textNielen, 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
Veronica Cunningham; Dorothy Williams – Journal of Information Literacy, 2018
The purpose of this research was to discover the conceptions of information literacy (IL) prevalent across multiple stakeholder groups in an international middle school community. The research involved students, parents, teachers, librarians, IT personnel, administrators and leadership in recorded focus group discussions. Using a phenomenographic…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Stakeholders, Middle Schools, International Schools
Nonte, Sonja; Hartwich, Lea; Willems, Ariane S. – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2018
Background: Numerous studies have investigated the relationships between various student, home and contextual factors and reading achievement. However, the relationship between such factors and reading attitudes has been investigated far less, despite the fact that theoretical frameworks of large-scale assessments and school effectiveness research…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Reading Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Structural Equation Models
Summers, Laura L. – Knowledge Quest, 2009
As budget cuts loom in school districts across the nation, school librarians are expected to show artifacts and share data to cement their credibility as instructional leaders, since according to Zmuda (2007) and many others, the effectiveness of the school library media program must be measured by what students learn as a result of their…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Computer Software, Articulation (Education), School Libraries
Peer reviewedBoekhorst, Albert K.; van Veen, Maarten J. P. – School Libraries Worldwide, 2001
Describes a study that examined the position of school libraries in the Netherlands to help secondary schools update their libraries and prepare them for a new role in learning. Explains the input-output research design that discusses organizational structure, library staff, financing, technical infrastructure, collection, collaboration, access to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Foreign Countries, Input Output Analysis, Learning Processes
PEB Exchange, 1990
The "information revolution" has brought in its wake a reassessment of the role and function of the traditional school library. The possibilities opened up by the new technologies have combined with new approaches to teaching and learning so that the library is no longer a mere repository of books to be visited when classes are over;…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Facility Planning, Foreign Countries, Innovation
