Male School Library Media Specialists as Role Models: Do They Make a Positive Impact on Boys in Elementary Schools?
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Missé, James B.
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- Male educators have been encouraged by many to become role models for boys in elementary schools. Similar to male teachers in elementary education, males represent a very small number of school library media specialists in elementary schools. This paper examines arguments for and against male role models and uses these arguments as a platform to construct a study which analyzes whether or not male media specialists make an impact on the academic achievement of boys in elementary schools. In this study, simple random sampling in conjunction with snowball sampling is used to compare the academic achievement of boys in North Carolina elementary schools with male school library media specialists to similar and randomly sampled schools without male library media specialists in the same state.
- Date of publication
- November 2009
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- Hughes-Hassell, Sandra
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- 49
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- abb1808a-3405-4d7b-866b-f35807dc08b2
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- Open access
- Date uploaded
- March 6, 2013
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