LibQUAL Revisited: Further Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Survey Results at the University of Mississippi

This paper updates an earlier 2010 longitudinal study of LibQUAL qualitative and quantitative data from the University of Mississippi libraries with an additional year of LibQUAL data, collated with other library-collected data such as gate-count numbers. In doing so, it identifies several results that are not satisfactorily analyzed by LibQUAL, and it concludes that a more specialized local survey may be helpful to supplement or supplant LibQUAL.     

The Medical Library Association's Master Guide to Authoritative Information Resources in the Health Sciences. Thompson,Laurie L., ed.; Higa,Mori Lou,Carrigan, Esther,and Tobia,Rajia, Assoc. eds.

The Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence-Based Practice Database offers systematic reviews, practice recommendations, and consumer information designed to support evidence-based practice. A sample search was conducted within the Ovid platform to demonstrate functionality and available tools.     

Broadcasting

Kas Kalba's City Meets the Cable: A Case Study in Technoloqical Innovation and Community Decision-Making.

Anthony Piepe, Miles Emerson, and Judy Lannon's Television and the Working Class (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books/D.C. Heath, 1975—$14.50).

Lawrence W. Lichty's Broadcast program and Audience Analysis and its related Workbook (American Printing and Publishing Inc., 2909 Syene Road, Madison, Wisc. 53713— about $13.50, paper, two loose-leaf volumes without binders).

Robert L. Hilliard's Writing for Television and Radio (New York: Hastings House, 1976—$16.50 with a paperback text edition available for which no price was given).

Robert L. Hilliard and Hyman H. Field's Television and the Teacher: A Handbook for Classroom Use (New York: Hastings House, 1976—$5.95 paper).

Chuck Anderson's Video Power: Grassroots Television (New York: Praeger, 1975— $7.95).     

Practical Guides

NAB ENGINEERING HANDBOOK edited by E.B. Crutchfield (National Association of Broadcasters, 1771 N St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036---$210 including shipping/$150 for NAB/BEA members)

REPORT WRITING FOR BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY by Steven P. Golen, et al. (New York: Wiley, 1985---$29.95)

TELEVISION PRODUCTION WORKBOOK by Herbert Zettl (Belmont, Ca.: Wadsworth, 1985---price not given, paper)

COPY-TO-PRESS HANDBOOK by Judy Pickens (New York: Wiley, 1985---$41.00)

THE NEWSPAPER SURVIVAL BOOK: AN EDITOR'S GUIDE TO MARKETING RESEARCH by Philip Meyer (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985---$20.00)

PROFESSIONAL NEWSWRITING by Hiley Ward (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985---price not given)

Contributor Bob Roberts writes of six recent titles

PROFESSIONAL VIDEO PRODUCTION by Ingrid Wiegand (White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1985---price not given, available in both cloth and paper)

DIRECTING TELEVISION AND FILM by Alan Armer (1986 [yes, that is 1986, believe it or not]---$22.95)

MODERN RADIO PRODUCTION by Lewis O'Donnell et al (1986---$21.95)     

计划间隔年,重塑职业路径

你也许会问,身处职场的自己为何需要"间隔年"?但的确有不少职场新人会在工作一段时间后,有些迷失前进方向.或许,你认为进入的企业与想象中有些差距,从事的也不是自己十分喜爱的工作. 这意味着你需要抽出一段时间走出去.其实间隔年的选择可以是多方位的.你可以去偏远的地方当一个志愿者,你也可以选择从事公益服务帮助他人,或者独自去周游世界撰写旅行日记,也可以申请一份海外工作.当然,你还可以一边旅行,一边获得沿途的一些工作机会.总之,好好利用自己现有的知识和技能,认真规划好自己的工作间隔年,能够有助你向更高的职业目标迈进!     

Whose Standards? Using the Standards Fund for children with Speech and Language Needs — a Survey of Allocation of Resources in England

The provision of speech and language therapy services is a topic of continuing concern and debate for policy makers and practitioners alike. In this article, James Law, of the Department of Language and Communication Science at City University, London; Maria Luscombe, of the Speech and Language Therapy Department at Northwick Park Hospital, London; and Judy Roux, of the Speech and Language Therapy Service in the London Borough of Newham, report the results of their research into the use of Standards Fund money in relation to children with speech and language needs. This report takes forward and updates many of the issues raised in Law, Lindsay, Peacey, Gascoigne, Soloff, Radford, Band and Fitzgerald's article in BJSE in September 2001 but also opens up new areas for discussion. These matters will be central to the task of promoting collaboration between the various agencies charged with responsibility for supporting children with speech and language needs.     

Media specialists— Targeted for TechTrends!

Summary Clearly, teachers and administrators in schools are pressed for time to keep up with the latest developments that could affect their performance. The Oakland Schools New Media Information Center provides many services and products to customers, especially media specialists to help fill this need. Many of the products and services (database training videos, free online tutorials, district-specific database sheets, and workshops) that we offer are mentioned in this paper. We feel that media specialists are often the lifelines to teachers and administrators in schools. We strive to keep communication and information flowing between our staff and the media specialists through our REMC meetings, school visits, the website, MAME meetings and listservs.     

Modeling Passing Rates on a Computer-Based Medical Licensing Examination: An Application of Survival Data Analysis

The purpose of this article was to model United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 2 passing rates using the Cox Proportional Hazards Model, best known for its application in analyzing clinical trial data. The number of months it took to pass the computer-based Step 2 examination was treated as the dependent variable in the model. Covariates in the model were: (a) medical school location (U.S. and Canadian or other), (b) primary language (English or other), and (c) gender. Preliminary findings indicate that examinees were nearly 2.7 times more likely to experience the event (pass Step 2) if they were U.S. or Canadian trained. Examinees with English as their primary language were 2.1 times more likely to pass Step 2, but gender had little impact. These findings are discussed more fully in light of past research and broader potential applications of survival analysis in educational measurement.     

English Reading Effects of Small‐Group Intensive Intervention in Spanish for K–1 English Learners

In this article we report small, but statistically significant, effects of brief supplemental instruction on English reading by Spanish‐speaking kindergartners (N = 37) who performed poorly on a bilingual battery of phonological‐processing tasks. Intervention design was compatible with the Reading First initiative and with research on use of multitiered intervention strategies for preventing reading failure among young monolingual students (e.g., L. S. Fuchs & Vaughn, 2003). We describe a Core Intervention Model (CIM) comprised of specific instructional behaviors that teachers might easily learn and employ regardless of curriculum, and discuss implications of our findings for building multitiered preventative instruction for young English learners.