Digging Much Deeper: School Library Factors That Impact Achievement

• In Event: Poster Session 12
  In Poster Session: Innovative Approaches and Strategies to Program Evaluation in Schools

Abstract

Building on prior structural equation models examining the academic achievement of all New York public schools outside of New York City (after controlling for student demographic and school characteristics), this study uses an outlier analysis technique to examine the differences in library resource and instructional strategies used by the top and bottom 5% (as well as the top and bottom 10%) of schools in the model. Among the library resource and strategies differences examined are: e-books, Internet PC’s in the library, and regular classroom teachers accompanying their class to the library. Analyses show a number of statistically significant differences between the positive and negative outliers.

Authors

• Joette Stefl-Mabry, University at Albany - SUNY

• Michael S Radlick, Institute for Research on Learning Technology Visions