Remember, if you choose not to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of your SRP, others will parents, children, school staff. Proactively assessing your program sends the message that you value the needs of your patrons. Outputs vs. What kinds of books would they like to be able to read?
Any specific titles? Would they attend summer reading if programs were held at an alternate location? Would they be more willing to attend if a meal or snack were provided? Do they have access to computers, internet, or mobile devices for e-books or online tracking?
What is the best way to tell them about library programs? What other questions would help you plan the best way to promote and implement your program? During summer reading— Comment cards are a great way to collect feedback about current programs, as are emails to current participants or Facebook posts. Did they participate? What prevents them from participating? Did it make a difference in attitude, ability? Did parents change behavior? How many programs did you attend? Favorite programs?
Ease of tracking system paper, online? Will you come back next year? Did you read more this year? Facility feedback… space, …. Timing of program Demographic information IRI change? How were staff? Did you participate last year? How many years? Volunteer next year? Do you have internet access at home? Smart phone or other mobile device available? Have you seen our web page? Here are some web resources that offer free software: www. In order for an outcome-based measure to resonate with decision makers it would need to meet at least two criteria: 1 The SRP and the outcome must be closely linked—there must be a cause-and-effect relationship, and 2 The outcome must be measurable in a consistent and reliable manner.
In order to better understand how public libraries are currently evaluating their SRPs, a brief survey was prepared. Because this was a convenience or accidental sample rather than a random survey, only descriptive statistics are reported. A total of responses were received from public libraries located in 31 states, which represents almost two-thirds of all states.
The average size of the community of the responding libraries was 55, with the range of size quite variable the maximum population was ,; the minimum size was Almost all public libraries keep track of the number of children who register for the SRP.
The survey respondents indicated that Almost as many libraries—some The opportunities for spending time in various summer activities that do not involve trips to the library are many. In addition, surprisingly few libraries calculate the percentage of SRP participants compared to school-age children in their community— only Because research has shown that the number of books read during the summer is important, some libraries track the number of books read.
A little more than one-third And of the sixty libraries reporting data, the average number of books read per participant was twenty-seven.
The range was from a low of two to a high of one hundred books per child. Similarly, some On average, each child reads 3. The range was a low of 0. And only a very small number of libraries track the number of pages read by each participant, with some 4.
In addition, the library wishing to learn one important perspective is to ask parents or guardians about their views of the impact of the SRP in the lives of their children.
A little more than one-fifth of libraries Of the reporting libraries, the parents or guardians note that improvements have been made in reading comprehension, vocabulary has improved, and time spent reading increased between 20 to 25 percent of the time as shown in figure 2.
It is particularly encouraging to see that parents spend more time reading with children. Can the teacher discern any change in the reading ability of the students? Has the reading comprehension and vocabulary of students improved?
Have their writing skills improved? Twenty-five percent of the responding libraries indicate that they had conversations with teachers about the impact of the SRP in the lives of their students.
Yet only 2. Almost two-thirds of the libraries
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