Validation Of a Questionnaire to Evaluate The Functioning Of School Libraries

The school library has acquired a new prominence in recent years, becoming a fundamental learning space for the teaching of different areas and subjects and the promotion of skills in students.The objective of this work is to validate a questionnaire designed ad hoc to evaluate the functioning and t...

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Published in:Revista electrónica de investigación y evaluación educativa 2018-01, Vol.24 (1)
Main Authors: Porto-Castro, Ana María, Barreiro-Fernández, Felicidad, Enelina María Gerpe-Pérez, Mosteiro-García, Mª Josefa
Format: Article
Language:eng ; spa
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Questionnaires
School libraries
Students
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Summary:The school library has acquired a new prominence in recent years, becoming a fundamental learning space for the teaching of different areas and subjects and the promotion of skills in students.The objective of this work is to validate a questionnaire designed ad hoc to evaluate the functioning and the forms of use and incorporation of the school library to the daily pedagogical activity. To this purpose, the questionnaire was applied to a random sampling of 4,177 students from 358 centers of Primary, Secondary and Post-Compulsory Education, reliability was calculated using the Cronbach's Alpha test and an exploratory factor analysis was carried out. The results show that the Students Questionnaire to Evaluate the Operation of the School Library has acceptable levels of reliability and validity, so that it offers guarantees enough to evaluate the functioning of the school library.
ISSN:1134-4032
DOI:10.7203/relieve.24.1.12372