[CASL-L] 2 days left for School Libraries Count!

[IRENE KWIDZINSKI]

Please, please participate and build evidence for what we do. TIA


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From: "Dickinson, Gail K." <GDickins at odu.edu>
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Subject: [aaslforum] 2 days left for School Libraries Count!

 
We still need 1000 more school libraries to complete the School Libraries Count 
survey for this year!   Please post on your state and your district school 
libraries list and ask that others step up.   Offer to help if you can.  
Remember that for the first time, researchers will be able to request data from 
SLC for research purposes, but it just won't work if the pile can't be sliced 
and diced.  In other words, comparing middle schools in your state against  
middle schools in another state can't be done unless there are enough middle 
schools in each state to make a statistically significant sample.  The same is 
true for any comparison.  This is just a great opportunity to show how your 
school matches up.
 
I know it may not be the most fun thing you have done all year, and crunching 
numbers is never a great way to spend a lovely spring afternoon.  As chair of 
the AASL Research and Statistics committee,  I want to see SLC data being used 
for dissertations and research articles, but rigorous research protocols demand 
a strong data pool, systematically collected.  Make your voice heard, and use 
your personalized report to advocate for stronger budgets, more  resources, and 
maybe even more staff.
 
 
 
Gail
 
Gail Dickinson, Associate Professor
249-6 Education Building
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529
757-683-6683
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