Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Abstract: How do we know whether early learning initiatives in which public libraries are involved work? That is, what is the impact on early learners? Dr. Eliza Dresang, the Early Learning Public Library Partnership, and the Foundation for Early Learning in Washington State have joined forces to address this challenging topic through Project VIEWS, funded through the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Dresang will give an overview of the early learning assessment research landscape in Washington. She will then speak to the related research in which she is currently involved and the potentially ‘radical’ idea of how she will adapt her research with school-age children to an early learning audience, based on a general principle she holds for research involving children.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Dresang, E. T. (1997). The resilient child in contemporary children’s literature: Surviving personal violence. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, 22(3), 133-141. [Link]
Dresang, E. (2006). Intellectual freedom and libraries: Complexity and change in the Twenty‐First‐Century digital environment. The Library Quarterly, 76(2), 169-192. doi:10.1086/506576. [Link]
Dresang, E. (2005). The information-seeking behavior of youth in the digital environment. Library Trends, 54(2), 178-196. [Link]
Dresang, E. T., & Koh, K. (2009). Radical change theory, youth information behavior, and school libraries. Library Trends, 58(1), 26-50. doi:10.1353/lib.0.0070. [Link]
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