Authors: Kent R. Gustafson, Jane Bandy Smith
ISBN-13: 9781567500868, ISBN-10: 1567500862
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: January 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This book is directed toward graduate students who are preparing to become, or already serving as, school library media specialists. It reflects the rapidly changing questions being asked in school library media research, as well as the methods of addressing those questions. These changes are due to both the changing role of the school library media specialist, and the explosion of research methods available. The authors hope that this book will encourage its readers to pursue an active research agenda in their school library media center.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
About the Authors | ||
Ch. 1 | Research and its use by practitioners | 1 |
Ch. 2 | Identifying a researchable problem | 19 |
Ch. 3 | Finding information | 38 |
Ch. 4 | Evaluating the existing literature | 66 |
Ch. 5 | Selecting a research design | 83 |
Ch. 6 | Identifying data collection instruments | 106 |
Ch. 7 | Data collection and preparation | 124 |
Ch. 8 | Data analysis | 136 |
Ch. 9 | Reporting results | 162 |
Bibliography | 182 | |
Appendix A | 187 | |
Appendix B | 193 | |
Appendix C | 200 | |
Appendix D | 207 | |
Author Index | 221 | |
Subject Index | 223 |