The Relationship of Documented Library Use to Academic Achievement, Program of Study, and Progress toward a Degree. AIR Forum 1982 Paper.

Autor/inn/en	Russell, Ralph E.; und weitere
Titel	The Relationship of Documented Library Use to Academic Achievement, Program of Study, and Progress toward a Degree. AIR Forum 1982 Paper.
Quelle	(1982), (23 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; College Credits; College Libraries; College Students; Foreign Students; Grade Point Average; Higher Education; Institutional Research; Intellectual Disciplines; Library Circulation; Library Surveys; Majors (Students); Minority Groups; Student Characteristics; Urban Universities; Use Studies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; College; Colleges; Achievement; Performance; Anrechnung; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Leistung; Library; Libraries; Bibliothek; Universitätsbibliothek; Collegestudent; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Institutionelle Forschung; Geisteswissenschaften; Bibliotheksorganisation; Ethnische Minderheit; Benutzerschulung
Abstract	The relationship between student library use and selected student characteristics, including fields of study, academic achievement, and progress toward a degree was investigated at a large, urban, nonresidential university with a full-time-equivalent student population of 15,000. Findings include the following: students with higher grade point averages and higher grades for the quarter have much greater likelihood for library use; the most consistently strong indicator of measured library use was the number of hours enrolled in a student's first quarter; graduate students exhibited the greatest degree of measured use; those attending under student visas had high levels of measured use; minority students, especially females, had substantially higher book checkout activity; students in courses with higher average grade point averages for enrolled students had considerably more measured library use; those majoring in the business fields or education exhibited much less use, but these students are known to make extensive use of periodicals; and enrollment in English, history, and political science was associated with higher levels of measured use. Implications of the findings include the following: it is unclear whether better students check out more books or whether more intense book checkout activity makes better students; evidence was found that library use is dependent upon the amount of free time available to a student; the higher levels of measured library use by foreign and minority students may result from less resources to purchase books, fewer community book resources, and/or a tendency to live closer to the library. (SW)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC