The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not high school students who had access to an expanded periodical collection in their school media center and who were instructed in utilizing periodicals for research would incorporate more of such literature into their bibliographies than would students who had no expanded access and no instruction. A quasi-experimental methodology, utilizing preestablished classes matched through test scores, was employed. The subjects were juniors in college preparatory English and Social Studies classes in two urban high schools, one of which provided an expanded periodical collection. The experimental classes were taught a unit on periodical usage by the researcher. / The hypotheses stated that students who were provided access to an expanded collection and instruction in periodical usage would cite more periodicals in research paper bibliographies than would students with: access but no instruction, instruction but no access, and no instruction and no access; and that student use of non-school libraries was related to having access and to being instructed. The t-test for differences in the means of independent observations was used to compare the percentage of periodical citations among groups; the chi square test of the significance in the difference between proportions was used to test the difference in use of non-school libraries between groups. The hypotheses were tested at the.10 level of significance. / The findings indicated that providing students with access to an expanded collection would increase their use of periodicals. The findings with regard to instruction were mixed: when both experimental and control classes were taught by the same teacher, instruction was significant; when classes were taught by different teachers, instruction was not significant. Instructed students did not use non-school libraries significantly more than did non-instructed students. Students with access did not use home or public libraries significantly more than did students without access; they did, however, use college libraries significantly more. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-12, Section: A, page: 3939. / Major Professor: Ronald Blazek. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1990.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78386 |
| Contributors | Self, Sharon Williams., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 185 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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