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…

The study examined study habits and academic performance of secondary school students in Mathematics. A case study of selected secondary schools in Uyo Local Education Council. The main purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between study habits and academic performance of secondary school students in Mathematics. To carry out…

The applications of e-learning resources to studies, teaching and learning by both staff and students have been investigated. However, the provision of e-learning tools for stake-holders is a modern goal to improving as well as achieving the quality of educational system in the twenty first century is imperative. Students' demographic variables…

The National Indian Education Study (NIES) is administered as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to allow more in-depth reporting on the achievement and experiences of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN)1 students in grades 4 and 8. This report focuses primarily on two themes identified during the development of the…

There is no doubt the library world is in a dilemma about Dewey, but the system is hardly dead. In his 2007 book, Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger said bluntly, "It can't be fixed." In spite of that, Dewey is currently the most widely used classification system in the world, employed in 138 countries by over 200,000…

The purpose of this publication, part of the AASL Bottom Line Series, is to provide guidance for school library media education faculty who are preparing a curriculum folio for review by representatives of AASL as part of the accreditation process conducted by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE).

All libraries surveyed report that their own library school graduates and faculty wives hold positions on their staffs. Both advantages and disadvantages to such appointments are expressed by respondents to the survey. A trend toward the elimination or curtailment of appointment of local library school graduates to the staff was revealed. (4…

Fifty-three directors of accredited library schools in the U.S. and Canada responded to requests for information on specific library school salaries, which were then tabulated by rank. (LS)

The publication commemorates the first twenty-five years of Western Michigan University's School of Librarianship. The work is comprised of three sections which mark the most significant periods of development: the founding years, 1945-56; the period of graduate accreditation and attainment of new physical facilities 1956-63; and the years…

Reports on interviews with four students at the School of Information and Library Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo. (PF)

This article examines the content of the professional education of archivists and discusses training in archival techniques and the subject knowledge required of archivists. (Author)

Description of the AALS Meeting, College Park, Md., Jan. 24-26, 1969.

Considers a number of questions related to general problems in library education, including those concerning constraints, professional perceptions of the library, technology, value systems, and creativity. (FM)