Dissertation Information for Patricia Senn Breivik NAME: - Patricia Senn Breivik
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science
SCHOOL:
- Columbia University (USA) (1974)
ADVISORS: - Oliver L. Lilley
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - None
MPACT Status: Incomplete - Ambiguous
Title: EFFECTS OF LIBRARY-BASED INSTRUCTION IN THE ACADEMIC SUCCESS OF DISADVANTAGED COLLEGE FRESHMEN
Abstract: After reviewing the background of open
admissions policies and programs in higher education, library
instruction in academic libraries and the beginnings of open
admissions within the City University of New York, the dissertation
reports on the conducting and results of a two-semester controlled
experiment at Brooklyn College. The experiment was designed to determine
whether there would be any difference in the academic success of
basic-skills students (i. e. those requiring remedial work) if they received
correlated library and information retrieval assistance, which emphasized
information collection skills and facility in the evaluation of resources
in relation to an academic course, on a weekly basis, traditional
library instruction (i.e. an orientation tour of the library plus
lectures on the use of the card catalog and indexes) or no supplementary
instruction. Academic success was to be evidenced by residual gains in
score between homework papers defending a self-chosen proposition (the
satisfactory performance of which was the goal of the course) assigned
during the first and next-to final weeks of the semester. Also considered was
whether or not any change would incur in student use and attitude
toward the library and its resources as a result of the different inputs. Within the limits of the experiment the
results were fairly consistent: the weekly instructed groups edged into
first place over, the control groups with the traditionally-instructed groups
coming in a poor third. Sample instructional materials and a
selected bibliography are included.
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