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The Public Library: What Can We Do for Your Students?
Author: Gerbig, Kori M.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Public Libraries,Literacy,Emergent Literacy,Library Role,Academic Achievement,Beginning Reading,Early Reading,At Risk Students,Caregiver Child Relationship,Story Reading,Reading Aloud to Others,Story Telling,Toddlers,Preschool Children,Preschool Education,Socioeconomic Status

In these days of increased testing and continued failure of inner-city and poor rural schools to meet the grade, it is becoming more and more necessary to turn to the public library to help students reach the ever-increasing goals being set for them. It seems somewhat unfair to hold the schools solely responsible for continued failure when the simple fact is that too many students arrive at school too late. To overcome this obstacle, those in the know are turning to their public libraries to support early and continued literacy experiences above and beyond what is already being accomplished in schools. The public library, being the only free government-funded educational service available to children from birth through adolescence, remains an invaluable resource in the area of child literacy development. In this article, the author discusses the role public libraries can play as a child literacy development resource for educators and parents. (Contains 4 notes.)
The End of the E*LIT Era: Exploring Its Impact. Spotlight Feature
Author: Arnone, Marilyn P.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Program Effectiveness,Information Technology,Literacy,Authors,Technology Uses in Education,Partnerships in Education,Librarian Teacher Cooperation,Media Specialists,Information Literacy

This article takes a retrospective look at a Center for Digital Literacy (CDL) program called E*LIT which stands for &quot;Enriching Literacy through Information Technology.&quot; E*LIT was created by CDL director, Dr. Ruth V. Small. Every year for the past six years, the E*LIT Competition has inspired students in and around Central New York to create technology-based projects about a selected living author's life and works. After 6 years, the program comes to an end. The authors explore the impact of the project on its participants and consider how the spirit of the project, enriching literacy through technology, might be continued in different ways. They focus on the &quot;primary&quot; sources to discover what E*LIT has meant to those involved. The authors hope this article has triggered some ideas in readers for creative ways in which they can enrich literacy through technology in their schools and communities.
Both Sides Now: Librarians Looking at Information Literacy from High School and College. Tips
Author: Schroeder, Robert
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Freshmen,Library Research,Research Methodology,Librarian Attitudes,School Libraries,Research Skills,Information Literacy,Information Skills,Librarians,High Schools,Colleges,Library Associations,Academic Libraries,Higher Education,Surveys,Evaluation

In October 2007, the Oregon Association of School Libraries (OASL) invited the author to speak at their annual conference. The question they asked him was, &quot;What information literacy and library research skills do academic librarians think entering college freshmen should have?&quot; The author investigates this question in his home state of Oregon. He surveys Oregon school and academic librarians to discover what they think transitioning students need in terms of information literacy skills. After looking at the data from the survey of Oregon librarians, the author is filled with even more questions that deal with how librarians look at their graduating seniors/incoming freshmen in regards to their skills vis a vis information literacy. The survey underscores the need for both academic and high school librarians to talk to each other about what and how they are teaching information literacy to their students. (Contains 2 tables.)
Motivational Strategies That Work!
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Elementary Secondary Education,Motivation Techniques,School Libraries,Media Specialists,Library Instruction,Lesson Plans,Teaching Methods

This article presents K-12 motivational strategies that focus on different ideas school library media specialists can use to gain and sustain attention in the research topic. Some have come from recent submissions to the S.O.S. database of lesson plans and teaching ideas. A student-directed searching activity for college level library instruction is included.
Instruction and &quot;The Commons&quot;. The College Connection
Author: Kasowitz-Scheer, Abby
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Institutional Mission,Academic Libraries,Learning Experience,Higher Education,Academic Achievement,Partnerships in Education,Information Literacy,Library Instruction,Multimedia Materials,Library Facilities,Instructional Materials

Many academic libraries have embraced the concept of the information commons or the learning commons. These library spaces consist of collections of tools, services and programs intended to enhance the student learning experience. According to Scott Bennett (2008), an information commons supports learning, while the learning commons &quot;enacts&quot; the institutional mission through partnerships with &quot;academic units that establish learning goals for the institution.&quot; This paper highlights the &quot;commons&quot;, which refer to library environments that provide an opportunity to build and develop learning spaces in new ways. It discusses examples of instructional services and learning spaces in several commons environments. While this article is in no way comprehensive, it is intended to offer ideas to those who are providing or planning to provide instructional services as part of a commons.
The Name Game: What Shall We Call Ourselves?. Guest Writer
Author: Franklin, Renee E.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: School Libraries,Library Administration,Pilot Projects,Enrollment,Media Specialists,Librarians,Surveys,Users (Information)

In this article, the author describes her efforts to collect perspectives about the topic of most appropriate job title for school library administrators. The author presents the results of a pilot study (with 31 respondents) and a national study (with 213 respondents) conducted to answer two research questions: (1) &quot;What do future school library administrators believe is an appropriate title for their position?&quot;; and (2) &quot;What reasons do future school library administrators give for why they chose a particular job title as most appropriate?&quot; Study participants were individuals enrolled in school media programs throughout the U.S. The results of the two studies make it clear that the profession has not reached consensus about the most appropriate title for individuals responsible for managing a school library. In fact, the survey data suggest that more important than choosing a single most appropriate title is to understand and celebrate the fact that future school library administrators are as diverse as the collections they will one day manage. Because of this, the author thinks that no such thing actually exists (or ever will) as a &quot;most appropriate&quot; or universal name by which to call all school library administrators. (Contains 2 tables.)
An Eight-Step Action Research Model for School Counselors
Author: Mason, E. C. M.
Date: 2007-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Action Research,School Counseling,School Counselors,Models,Research Needs,Literature Reviews,Research Methodology,Research Design

This article presents an eight-step model for the school counselor implementing action research at the local school. The article reviews the current literature on the need for school counseling research at the practitioner level. Action research and outcome research practices are discussed as they pertain to the field of school counseling.
The Implications of Teacher Perceptions of Career Guidance Programs and the Impact on Student Career Decisions
Author: Munro, Hope
Date: 2007-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Action Research,Guidance Programs,Career Guidance,Career Choice,Career Development,Teacher Attitudes,Career Education,Counselor Teacher Cooperation,Career Planning,Teacher Surveys,Likert Scales,Performance Factors,Influences,Educational Practices

This action research study (ARS) describes teacher perceptions of various career guidance instruments in one high school and their impact on high school students in career decision-making. The paper also discusses the teacher ranking of the career guidance methods and ways in which counselors and teachers can work together to assist students to make more realistic career choices. (Contains 1 table.)
At-Risk Students Plan for Successful Transitions
Author: McWhorter, Sharon
Date: 2007-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Intervention,Technical Institutes,At Risk Students,School Counselors,Postsecondary Education,Evaluation,Counseling,Occupational Aspiration,Adult Education,Adults,Education Work Relationship,Educational Improvement,Mentors,Writing Assignments,Scoring Rubrics,High School Seniors

Research indicates that schools do not always provide students with the skills they need for successful transitions to postsecondary education and work. A transition gap is particularly prevalent for &quot;at-risk&quot; students who have difficulty relating learning to future education and career aspirations. A high school counselor, language arts teacher, and technical college assessment coordinator created Plan for Success, an intervention program designed to facilitate more successful transitions for &quot;at-risk&quot; students. Creation and implementation of Plan for Success interventions are discussed as well as resulting improvement in student transition outcomes. (Contains 4 tables.)
Helping Parents Cope with Adolescents Who Self-Injure: Strategies for School Counselors
Author: Chibbaro, Julia S.
Date: 2007-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Self Destructive Behavior,Adolescents,School Counselors,Coping,Injuries,Parent Education,Parent Child Relationship,Prevention,Counseling Techniques

Professional school counselors experience unique challenges as they struggle to provide information to parents about self-injurious behaviors and methods to cope with adolescents who self-injure. This paper explores self-injurious behaviors, discusses some of the reasons why adolescents practice self-injury and recommends six strategies that professional school counselors could use with parents whose adolescents self-injure.
Adolescent Attitudes toward Disabilities: What Every School Counselor Needs to Know
Author: DeLambo, David A.
Date: 2007-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS),Student Attitudes,Visual Impairments,School Attitudes,Heart Disorders,Mental Retardation,Schizophrenia,Attitudes toward Disabilities,Hearing Impairments,Adolescent Attitudes,Substance Abuse,Mental Disorders,School Counselors,Counseling Techniques

This study examined high school attitudes toward persons with physical and mental disabilities using a social distance scale. Results indicated that physical disabilities (e.g., ulcer, stomach disorder, heart disease, visual impairment, hearing impairment, spinal cord injure) were rated as most accepted (excluding HIV/AIDS) and mental disabilities (e.g., chemical dependency, schizophrenia, depression, alcoholism, behavior disorder, mental retardation) were the least accepted. That is, more social distance was placed between the participant and the disability group. These findings were similar to other studies. As diversity awareness continues to drive the counseling arena, it seems vital that attitudes toward disabilities be addressed. Implications of these results as well as techniques to modify student attitudes toward disability are reviewed. (Contains 1 table.)
Site Supervision of Professional School Counselors-in-Training: A Practitioner's Conceptualization
Author: Schulz, Lisa L.
Date: 2007-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Supervision,Counseling,School Counselors,Counselor Educators,Internship Programs,Higher Education,Partnerships in Education,Evaluation

This article presents a conceptualization of site supervision for school counselors-in-training (SCIT). This conceptualization is based on the premise that SCIT receive an experientially based internship rather than one premised solely on supervision theory. It is intended to be a tool from which counselor educators, site supervisors, and SCIT can cooperatively design and implement an internship experience which produces capable, confident, and knowledgeable professional school counselors. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.)
Health and Fitness for the Professional School Counselor
Author: Giddings-Jackson, Crystal
Date: 2007-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: School Counselors,Health,Physical Fitness,Workshops,Conferences (Gatherings),Professional Associations,Health Needs

Nutritional information followed by Chair-er-cise and a 20-minute cardio exercise to light hip-hop music was presented at a workshop at the Georgia School Counselors Conference Fall semester, 2006. As a follow-up to the conference presentation, during Spring semester 2007 data was collected from Cobb County School counselors to examine the health and fitness needs of professional school counselors. This article addresses the health and fitness needs of school counselors across school levels.
Communicating Professional School Counselor Roles to Principals
Author: Edwards, LaWanda
Date: 2007-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Guidance Programs,School Counselors,Principals,Counselor Role,Interpersonal Relationship

Professional school counselors (PSC) are constantly given responsibilities that are nonguidance duties. When given these duties, PSC are not able to implement and maintain effective guidance programs. Often school principals assign these duties because they are unaware of the impact school counselors have on the goals of the school. Therefore, it is important that school counselors promote the profession and inform school principals of their roles and how they affect the school. This article offers school counselors suggestions on how to communicate more effectively with principals.
On the Way into the Bologna Reform--A Consideration of the Quality and the Role of Human Resource Management in Higher Education System
Author: Kohont, Andrej
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Organizational Culture,Educational Change,Foreign Countries,Human Resources,Educational Cooperation,International Cooperation,Standards,Educational Quality,Role,Educational Administration

In the article the concept of higher education quality is discussed, putting an emphasis on the concept of quality as a transformation. In this context the teachers are stimulated to use contemporary teaching/learning tools and to take active role in the development and empowerment of learners. The role of human resource management (HRM) is also emphasized as essential for educators' development, for supporting changes in organizational culture and for the preparation of higher education institutions (HEI) managers, leaders and academics to meet new demands of higher education circumstances. Despite its importance the role of HRM is still not enough emphasized within the higher education management processes. The majority of changes in quality improvement are concentrated on identification of measures, indexes and standards of quality that would assist higher education institutions to achieve their goals. This is reflected in European higher education area and in Slovenia, as well. Therefore the authors' present HRM tools that can be used in HEI, adding recommendations for usage of these tools in HEI practice. (Contains 1 table and 6 footnotes.)
Conception of Learning Outcomes in the Bloom's Taxonomy Affective Domain
Author: Savickiene, Izabela
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Learning Strategies,Classification,Affective Behavior,Outcomes of Education,Foreign Countries,Higher Education,Quality Control,Educational Quality

The article raises a problematic issue regarding an insufficient base of the conception of learning outcomes in the Bloom's taxonomy affective domain. The search for solutions introduces the conception of teaching and learning in the affective domain as well as presents validity criteria of learning outcomes in the affective domain. The possibilities for the assessment of learning achievements in the mentioned domain are identified. The peculiarities of learning outcomes in the affective domain discussed in the documents regulating European and Lithuanian higher education are shown. (Contains 4 tables, 1 figure and 1 footnote.)
Teaching Quality Assessment in University Studies: Possibilities for Application of Student Survey
Author: Allan, Audrone
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Surveys,Data Interpretation,Questionnaires,Data Analysis,Item Analysis,Educational Indicators,Definitions,Educational Opportunities,Educational Quality,Teaching Methods,Educational Strategies,Educational Assessment,Evaluation Criteria,Research Utilization

This article aims to reveal possibilities for teaching quality assessment when data from student survey are used. To achieve this aim, the conception of teaching in a higher education institution was reviewed and criteria of teaching quality were distinguished in the theoretical part. In the empirical part of the research, validity of teaching quality indicators that were used in the student survey instrument was evaluated and possibilities for the interpretation of data were presented. (Contains 6 tables, 4 figures and 4 footnotes.)
Improvement of Experiment Planning as an Important Precondition for the Quality of Educational Research
Author: Rutkiene, Ausra
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Experiments,Planning,Educational Research,Graduate Students,Reliability,Validity,Quasiexperimental Design,Action Research,Research Methodology,Doctoral Dissertations,Predictor Variables,Statistical Analysis,Pilot Projects,Foreign Countries

The article presents the stages of the experiment planning that are necessary to ensure the validity and reliability of it. The research data reveal that doctoral students of Educational Research approach the planning of the experiment as the planning of the whole dissertation research; and the experiment as a research method is often confused with the quasi-experiment, subordination, or action research. (Contains 1 table.)
Improvement of Generic Skills Development in Study Programmes of Higher Education: The Graduates' Viewpoint
Author: Pukelis, Kestutis
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Labor Market,Vocational Education,Skill Development,Educational Improvement,Foreign Countries,Graduate Surveys,Education Work Relationship,Questionnaires,Mail Surveys,Outcomes of Education,Occupational Surveys

The article discusses the concept of generic skills, underlines the importance of their development in studies of higher education, introduces methodology and results of the research on the match between generic skills of Lithuanian universities' and colleges' graduates (N=1021) and labour market needs, as well as reviews potentialities for the improvement of the quality of study programmes development in this field. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.)
Change and Transition--The Basis of the Effective Quality Management System = Kaita ir Keitimasis--Efektyvios Kokybes Vadybos Sistemos Pagrindas
Author: Misiunas, Mindaugas
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Total Quality Management,Personnel Management,Resistance to Change,Employee Attitudes,Responses,Behavior,Attitude Change,Organizational Change

The article reasons the aspect of change and transition in higher education institutions implementing quality management systems. Psychological and behavioural responses of high school staff towards quality management system being implemented are discussed; transition phases of the employees are introduced; specific features of staff management in higher education institutions introducing quality management systems are highlighted. (Contains 1 table, 3 figures and 2 footnotes.) [Article is in both English and Lithuanian.]
Quality Assessment of University Studies as a Service: Dimensions and Criteria
Author: Pukelyte, Rasa
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Quality Control,Educational Change,Evaluation Criteria,Definitions,Delivery Systems,College Programs,Item Analysis,Foreign Countries,Educational Quality,Educational Improvement,College Outcomes Assessment,Models

This article reviews a possibility to assess university studies as a service. University studies have to be of high quality both in their content and in the administrative level. Therefore, quality of studies as a service is an important constituent part of study quality assurance. When assessing quality of university studies as a service, it is important to validate assessment dimensions and criteria. Seven dimensions (reliability, responsiveness, competence, communication, security, understanding the client, tangibility) of quality assessment of university studies as a service and criteria that describe these dimensions are distinguished in the article. (Contains 1 table, 2 figures and 2 footnotes.)
Structure, Problems and Possibilities for Their Solution in External Evaluation of Colleges
Author: Rostlund, Ausra
Date: 2010-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Higher Education,Institutional Evaluation,Foreign Countries,Evaluation Problems,Evaluation Criteria,Research Methodology,Research Opportunities,Research Design,Program Descriptions,Definitions,Educational Quality,Quality Control

The article grounds the structure of the external evaluation of colleges at the level of the non-university higher education sector, and it reveals the problems met in this process as well as possibilities for their solution: the phenomenon of the external evaluation of colleges is discussed and its concept is presented; the external evaluation process of the European higher schools is analysed and its stages are described; the problems and possibilities for their solution in the external evaluation of Lithuanian colleges are presented in the views of those participating in the evaluation. (Contains 2 tables, 1 figure and 1 footnote.)
Working with Latina Adolescents in Online Support Groups
Author: Archuleta, Debra J.
Date: 2006-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Counseling Services,Rural Schools,Social Support Groups,Dropout Prevention,School Counseling,School Counselors,Hispanic Americans,Adolescents,Computer Mediated Communication,Counseling Techniques,Females,At Risk Students,Colleges,School Districts,College School Cooperation,Counselor Training,Sexuality,Barriers,College Students,High School Students

Latina students face many challenges that can lead to school dropout. Although school counselors have the skills and training to provide counseling and guidance to students at-risk for dropping out of school, they are often placed in positions where their role is primarily administrative. This paper describes an online support group developed by two rural school districts and a university counseling program in order to address the needs of Latina students. (Contains 2 footnotes.)