School Library Flexible Scheduling and Assessment

Information Skills Instruction

Flexible Scheduling - Web Sites

Flexible Scheduling: AASL Essential Links - Links to the AASL position statement, and to books, articles, and online resources.
Flexible Scheduling: Making the Transition - An article by Peggy Milam Creighton in School Library Monthly, January, 2008. This article provides a number of helpful suggestions for making the change to flexible scheduling.
Flexible Scheduling - Information and many links to other sites. This site is by the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University and Purdue University.
Flexible Scheduling and Your School Library - A pamphlet for parents explaining the advantages of flexible scheduling. This is by the Library Services Department of the Lewisville TX School District.
Flexible Scheduling: Implementing an Innovation - An article by Joy McGregor in School Library Media Research.
How to Design a Flexible Schedule for an Elementary School Library Media Center - From eHow.com.
Tracking the Transition to a Flexible Access Library Program in Two Library Power Elementary Schools - An article by Donna M. Shannon in School Library Media Research
Flexible Scheduling May Have a Positive Impact on School Library Circulation - This is a study by Ann Medaille in Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2011. This study finds that elementary students with flexible scheduling check out more books during the school year.
Flexible Scheduling - Elementary School Library Question from School Library Graduate Students - This is from the Teacher Librarian Ning
Fixed vs. Flexible Scheduling In Elementary School Library Media Centers: A Continuing Debate - A paper by Christine Hurley, December 4, 2003. This paper examines both sides of the flexible scheduling debate.

Research and Instructional Models

The Big Six Homepage - A commercial site which does have some free materials.
Student Inquiry in the Research Process - A model for student research designed by Leslie B. Preddy, a school library media specialist. This site contains useful planning information for both media specialists and classroom teachers.
The I-Search Model - Four step process for research.
The Research Cycle - Plans for student research in the new technological age from Bellingham, WA public schools.
Tips and Techniques for Library Instruction - This site is aimed at the college librarian teaching undergraduates, but it has teaching tips that would be useful for teaching high school students or for doing in-services for adults. The site is by the University of Texas at Austin.

Assessment

Assessing Information Problem-Solving Skills - Rubric developed by Jamieson McKensie and the school library media specialists of the Oak Harbor(WA) schools.
How to Assess a Bibliography - by Debbie Abilock.
Rubrics for Assessment - There are rubrics here for assessment of research projects. This site is by the University of Wisconsin.
Assessing Learning: the Missing Piece in Instruction - by Violet H. Harada and Joan Yoshina in School Library Activities Monthly, March, 2006.
Farrington Complex Elementary Library Skills Assessment - A test of library skills. This is in pdf format.
Trails - A multiple choice test for assessing high school students' information skills. By Kent State Libraries and Media Services.
Sails - A test assessing the information literacy of college students. By Kent State University Libraries and Media Services.

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