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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: An exploration of the impact of scheduling on public secondary school library use Abstract: This study explored the amount of purposeful use of the school library for secondary English and Social Studies class sections (N = 175) from two comparable secondary schools in North Central Texas, one traditionally scheduled school (N = 82) and one A/B block scheduled school (N = 93). Teacher lesson plans were used to calculate the number of library visits for English and Social Studies class sections. Independent t-tests were used to compare mean differences in library use. The hypothesis, there is a significant difference in the amount of purposeful use of the school library during the school day for a traditionally scheduled and for an A/B block scheduled school, was not supported. The results of the overall independent t-test indicated that there was no significant difference in overall library use between the traditionally scheduled and the block scheduled English and Social Studies class sections (p = .710) at the .05 level. To further explore purposeful library use, individual independent t-tests were conducted for each subject area, revealing that traditionally scheduled English I, II, and U.S. History class sections made significantly more library visits (p = .040; p = .034; p = .035) and A/B block scheduled English III, IV, and Geography class sections (p = .033; p = .012; p = .003) made a significantly greater number of library visits. World History class sections (p = .121) showed no significant difference at the .05 level. The lack of pattern of use as shown in the individual independent t-tests supported the correctness of the overall independent t-test. |
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