Greetings Colleagues,
The Center for Digital Literacy at Syracuse University's School of
Information Studies is conducting a national online survey of U.S. 8th
graders and their library media specialists. The study measures
students' perceived and actual competence in information and digital
literacy, and some other motivational variables that may impact
students' information seeking.
This study is funded by a grant from the Institute for Museum and
Library Services (IMLS).
We have conducted our Fall 2007 pilot study with library media
specialists in 9 U.S. schools and with over 250 U.S. 8th-graders and
have finalized the results.
We are now beginning our recruitment process of library media
specialists at 100 U.S. public schools in order to implement this
project with 8th graders at the school level for the final, full study.
For the final study, participating library media specialists will
collaborate with our research team in order to implement an online
survey with up to 30 eighth graders. This will occur during Spring 2008.
We will provide full support for the conduct of the study, including
materials, forms, training, the online survey, and follow-through.
Several benefits exist for participating library media specialists:
1. Receive aggregate data analytic reports on 8th graders' digital
literacy, information literacy, and much more.
2. Receive reprints of all articles and publications generated from the
grant.
3. If interested, you can download study data (all anonymous) from the
project Website after the study is complete, for further analysis of
your individual school.
4. Receive a gift of $200 for use toward your school library media
center in thanks for your efforts in collaborating with us.
You can find out further details about the study at the following link:
http://imls8.syr.edu/
If you are interested in participating, please visit the following link
and fill out our brief, 5-minute online questionnaire.
QUESTIONNAIRE:
http://imls8.syr.edu/survey/index.php?sid=5
By taking the questionnaire you are indicating your possible interest
and providing us with some information about yourself. We will follow up
with more details via email and/or regular mail in the next three weeks.
If you have further questions, please email us at:
syr.imls8@gmail.com
We hope to hear from many of you on this list! Thank you so much in
advance for your interest. Please forward this to other colleagues who
may be interested.
Sincerely,
Drs. Marilyn Arnone and Ruth Small
Center for Digital Literacy
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
105 Hinds Hall
Syracuse, New York 13244-4100
315/443-6144; 315/443-6886 (fax)
syr.imls8@gmail.com
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