Open AccessYear two of the Claraboya research project: changing faculty attitudes regarding academic library resources for improving academic performance in selected subjects and student satisfaction
Author(s) -
Luís González Bravo,
Pamela Menay Lagos,
Gonzalo Puentes Soto,
Javier Vera Junemann,
Leoncio Esmar Gutiérrez,
José Venegas Lillo,
Marcela Moroni López,
Kiyoshi Fukushi Mandiola,
Erwin Vega Venegas,
M. Peralta
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
investigación bibliotecológica : archivonomía, bibliotecología e información/investigación bibliotecológica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.182
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2448-8321
pISSN - 0187-358X
DOI - 10.1016/j.ibbai.2016.06.008
Subject(s) - psychology , sample (material) , academic year , mathematics education , medical education , medicine , chemistry , chromatography
The present research reports the results of the Claraboya project, focused on improving two variables: 1) student's satisfaction with resources available in the campus library through the implementation of attitudinal changes in their teachers regarding reading assignments, and 2) students’ academic performance in the participant courses. Methods: Using a pre-experimental design, degrees of satisfaction a sample of 373 students for seven accessibility indicators were compared to those found in two random samples of participating students on the Service-Quality Survey from 2013. Findings: For six of the seven variables analyzed, averages obtained for the students in the Claraboya Project Research Survey (cprs) are higher than those reported in the in 2013 Sample 1 and 2013 Sample 2. Additionally, there is a statistically significant greater level of satisfaction in six and five variables against scores reported in the random samples. To check the second hypothesis, courses taught by the same teacher in 2012 and 2013 (Claraboya) were selected and their averages compared. Insofar as only four of the twenty-one showed statistically significant differences, this hypothesis was rejected. Finally, the scope and limitations of this study are discussed