Professional self-efficacy and role perception of school librarians and their impact on the development of students' information literacy: an evidence-based study

Journal of Information Literacy

Ruth Ash-Argyle²  Snunith Shoham¹ 

[1] The Department of Information Science, Bar Ilan University, Israel.;The Leo Baeck Education Centre;University of Haifa - The Department of Information and Knowledge Management;Beit Berl College - The Department of Information and Knowledge Management.

关键词: school librarians;    primary schools;    high schools;    elementary schools;    secondary schools;    reference work;    Big6;    research processes;    information literacy;    students;    professional self-efficacy;    continuing professional development;    role perception;    Israel.;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Information Literacy

【 摘 要 】

The current study evaluated the degree to which school librarians are involved in two different dimensions of their work that directly relate to developing information literacy (IL): (1) providing students with basic and advanced reference work services (RWS); and (2) assisting students at different stages of their research process assignments, as defined by the Big6 model. In addition, to examine factors that may affect the degree of involvement in these two dimensions, the professional self-efficacy of the librarians and their perceptions of their role within the school community were assessed. Data was collected from 71 Israeli school librarians through online questionnaires and analysed quantitatively. This analysis reveals that school librarians provide primarily basic RWS, which require a low degree of professional and technological skills and little collaboration with school teachers. Similarly, school librarians are mainly involved with two specific stages of the students�? research processes, namely, the seeking and evaluation of information, which again reflect a low degree of IL training. The degree of involvement of librarians in these dimensions of their work is significantly and positively correlated with (a) the perception of the librarians of their own self-learning ability and professional updating level; and (b) their perceptions of their role as co-teachers or leaders within the school community. These findings should increase the awareness of the IL community to the work of school librarians, to their role in shaping information-related processes in young students, and to possible means of achieving these goals. 

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