Action research
Subtitle: a practical guide for transforming your school library
By: Judith A. Sykes
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Greenwood Village, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9780313009099
Subjects: School libraries; Research; Methodology; Action research in education; Bibliothèques scolaires; Recherche; Méthodologie; Recherche-action en éducation; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Library & Information Science; School Media
Description: Are you striving or even struggling to keep your school library alive and find support for your programs? This book shows you how to perform qualitative research and use the results effectively to promote your school library and build a shared understanding of the impact of school libraries on student learning. It gives hands-on guidance for performing action research, including how to establish the context, emphasize the main issue, set goals, anticipate research outcomes, create a plan, use tools and techniques for gathering data, involve others, perform an analysis that will lead to a patte.
Notes: Accompanying CD-ROM contains PowerPoint presentation, "School libraries of the future," which is reproduced on p. [61]-[125] of printed text.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: An Action Research Journey; CHAPTER 1: Establishing Context; CHAPTER 2: The Issue; CHAPTER 3: Current Literature; CHAPTER 4: The Journey: Establishing Goals, Outcomes, Plans; CHAPTER 5: Interventions: The Journey's Events; CHAPTER 6: Results and Discussions: Patterns, Themes, Conclusions; CHAPTER 7: Developing a Vision for Your Library and How to Keep It Alive; CHAPTER 8: Adapting the Action Research Model: Student Inquiry; PART II: Presentation (also on CD-ROM); Presentation; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K.