Teaching and Testing Information Literacy Skills [Paperback]

Jane Bandy Smith (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1586830783 | ISBN-13: 978-1586830786 | Publication Date: January 1, 2005

Regardless of what educators maintain, the general public believes test scores accurately reflect student performance and school success. This situation places enormous pressure on schools to improve, but it also offers opportunities for library media specialists to help students learn valuable information literacy skills that in turn will improve test scores. By joining forces with educators, media specialists can demonstrate how information literacy skills strengthen student performance as well as instruct teachers on teaching and testing information skills within the context of classroom content. Teaching and Testing Information Literacy Skills will help library media specialists educate teachers on information literacy skills and increase collaboration for effective test-taking preparation.Ê

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Smith does a fine job of comparing and contrasting various schools of thought and of providing matrixes, examples, and plans. She reviews the rise and acceptance of information literacy, traces a continuum from older ideas of isolated library skills to this more inclusive life skill, and presents a frame for curriculum development with five pages of excellent instructional objectives by category and grade level. One chapter addresses curriculum implementation; others offer a terrific overview of effective teaching and testing techniques. Helpful unit- and lesson-planning designs are included. In the last chapter, two school librarians talk about their experiences with in-depth units using this design. Most chapters end with useful checklists for implementation as well as extensive endnotes and references. This powerful book will illuminate the inexperienced and reinvigorate veteran school librarians.–Mary R. Hofmann, Rivera Middle School, Merced, CA
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About the Author

Jane Bandy Smith’s career has taken her into school libraries, classrooms, administrative offices, and state agencies. She recently retired from the Alabama Department of Education where she served as a technology specialist, the school library media consultant, and coordinator of instructional assistance. Dr. Smith moved to the Alabama agency from the Georgia Department of Education where she coordinated field services for the Division of Instructional Media. Before beginning work in state agencies, she taught library media and education courses at the University of Georgia, West Georgia College, and the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Although she spent time as director of the Education Library at the Tuscaloosa campus of The University of Alabama, her career began as an elementary school librarian in a school less than a mile away.

Dr. Smith has presented hundreds of professional development programs for school systems and professional organizations. Her books include Achieving a Curriculum-Based Library Media Center Program, Research for School Media Specialists (with Kent Gustafson), Renewal at the Schoolhouse (with Ben Carson), and Library Media Center Programs for Middle Schools. She contributed to Helping Kids Learn Multicultural Concepts and edited the School Library Media Annual (Vols. 6-10). For more than thirty years, Dr. Smith’s work has focused on how the library media center contributes to a school’s instructional program.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Linworth (January 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1586830783
• ISBN-13: 978-1586830786
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,709,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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