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Dissertation Information for Wanda Pollard Evans

NAME:
- Wanda Pollard Evans

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- Columbia University (USA) (1982)

ADVISORS:
- Jane Anne Therese Hannigan

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Kay Ellen Vandergrift
- Richard L. Darling

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Ambiguous

Title: TEACHING ABOUT TELEVISION AND OTHER MEDIA IN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER

Abstract: This study investigated current practices of elementary school library media specialists in teaching the skills of media production and the skills of critical viewing and listening to media. Special attention was given to commercial television. One part of the study investigated the attitudes of media specialists toward television and examined some of the uses they made of it in the instructional program.

Participating in the study were 248 media specialists from 19 school districts across the country. The districts selected had been winners or finalists in the School Library Media Program of the Year Award, sponsored by the Encyclopedia Britannica Company and the American Association of School Librarians. The underlying assumption was that direction and trends which would eventually become important to a profession could be identified by examining its exemplars.

Instruments used to gather information included a questionnaire mailed to the media specialists, personal interviews conducted with district coordinators of media services, on-site visits to schools for observation and discussions with media specialists, and analysis of various documents. Of the latter, the most important were the application forms which had been filled out by the districts at the time they entered into competition for the award. In addition, some districts sent copies of their library media skills curricula or recommended others which had been found useful.

The study yielded findings in three areas.

Media production skills were taught by a large majority of the specialists, aided by one or more support services provided at district level.

The program of teaching skills of critical viewing and listening to media was found to be less solidly established in media centers than was the program of teaching production skills. This may be related to the role perception of media specialists held by members of the school community.

In that phase of the study which dealt with commercial television, multiple levels of media center involvement were found. These ranged from the simple use of characters to illustrate aspects of the instructional program to participation of media specialists in the teaching of critical television viewing skills.

MPACT Scores for Wanda Pollard Evans

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C = 0
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TD = 0
TA = 0
calculated 2008-01-31 06:01:55

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