Download or read book Survey of American College Students Use of the Academic Library Website written by Primary Research Group Inc. and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study looks at whether and how often college students use their academic library website. It helps its readers answer the following questions: who uses the academic library website and how often? Who and how often are students accessing databases remotely through a library website? How do students evaluate the training that they have received in using the academic library website?Just a few of this report's many findings are that: ?Men were likelier than women to have never used the college library website?Students in the visual arts and architecture have a harder time than others finding information in the library and close to 26% experience some significant measure of difficulty.?Students who grew up abroad were much more likely than their US-raised counterparts to be happy with their training on how to use the academic library website.Data in the report is broken out by more than 20 personal and institutional variables, so, for example, readers can get specific data on academic library website use for first year students vs. sophomores, juniors or seniors, or for students in level 1 research universities vs. doctoral institutions, or for male vs. female or vs. transgender students, or for business/economics majors vs fine arts majors, etc., etc. Breakouts include age, year of school standing, major or intended major, religion, gender, sexual orientation, income level, SAT/ACT scores, college grades, regional origins, race/ethnicity, level of school tuition, size of school of institution attended and many other variables. This is a critical resource for policy makers in academic libraries as well as a unique data source for social scientists and other studying higher education. A
Download or read book The Survey of American College Students written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Survey of American College Students: Student Use of Academic Library Reference Department Services, ISBN #: 1-57440-123-8. The data in the report is based on a representative sample of more than 400 full time college students in the United States. Data is broken out by 16 criteria including gender, grade point average, major field of study, income level of students and type, size of college, and mean SAT acceptance score of colleges, among other variables. The 90-page study gives data on the use of web forms for reference, email reference, instant message reference, telephone reference, in-person reference, and overall awareness of and use of reference librarians and subject specialists.
Download or read book SURVEY OF AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS written by Primary Research Group Staff and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Survey of American College Students written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . The report presents data from a survey of 400+ American college students about how they go about doing research in their college libraries. The 150+ page report gives extensive data on student use of major search engines, wikipedia, library databases, book collections and other library resources. The study also gives detailed information on how their professors advise them to use the library, and how comfortable they feel about their research skills and how helpful librarians have been in helping them in their research. Data is broken out by more than 16 criteria including gender, income level, type and size of college, mean SAT acceptance score of the college, and many other variables. Just a few of the report¡¦s many findings are that: ¿öOnly about 47% of students are sure that they have ever been required to turn in a research paper exceeding 10 double spaced typed pages in length for any of their classes.¿öMore than 86% of students say that they understand the concept of plagiarism ¡§well¡ ̈ or ¡§very well¡ ̈. ¿ö64% of students sampled say that they know how to contact a librarian online.¿ö55.2% of the students in the sample had not asked for help from a librarian within the past year.¿öNearly 29% of students say that Google, Yahoo and other major search engine searches were the most important information source for their last research assignment.¿öMore than 9% of information needed for research papers was sourced from Wikipedia or other wickis.¿öThe higher the grade point average the less information for research papers was obtained from search engines such as Google or Yahoo.The study is available directly from Primary Research Group or from major book distributors. The price is $80.00 for print and PDF versions; site licenses are also available. For further information contact Primary Research Group at 212-736-2316 or visit our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.
Download or read book The Survey of American College Students written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study presents more than 170 tables of data describing how American college students use their library workstations, how long they wait for them, how they view their availability and whether they prefer Macs or PC's. The report also covers use of laptops in the college library, both students own and those provided by the college library. Other issues covered include use of the library's online catalog and out of library access to the library home page. The data in the report is based on a representative sample of more than 400 full time college students in the United States. Data is broken out by 16 criteria including gender, grade point average, major field of study, income level of students and type, size of college, and mean SAT acceptance score of colleges, among other variables.
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Download or read book The Survey of American College Students written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents approximately 70 tables of data exploring how full time college students in the United States view and use their college library¿s e-book collection. The data in the report is based on a representative sample of more than 400 full time college students in the United States. Data is broken out by 16 criteria including gender, grade point average, major field of study, income level of students and type, size of college, and mean SAT acceptance score of colleges, among other variables. The report is designed to give college librarians, educational researchers, publishers and others critical demographic information on the student use of college library e-book collections. Just a few of the report¿s many findings are that:¿30.42% of the students in the sample say that they have received any form of in or out of class training from a college librarian in how to use the library¿s e-book collection. ¿Only a sixth of students in colleges with a mean SAT score greater than 1950 say that they have received e-book collection training from college librarians. ¿Less than 17% of community college students found library e-book collections useful or very useful.
Download or read book The Survey of American College Students written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents approximately 165 tables of data exploring how often full time college students in the United States go to their college library, what they do when they are there, and how they rate their library's accessibility and comfort. The report provides specific data on how often students go to their college library, how they evaluate its hours of operation and accessibility, who meets with other students in the library, who goes to the library for research and study and how students view their own library-going habits compared to their peers. The data in the report is based on a representative sample of more than 400 full time college students in the United States. Data is broken out by 16 criteria including gender, grade point average, major field of study, income level of students and type, size of college, and mean SAT acceptance score of colleges, among other variables.
Download or read book SURVEY OF AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS written by Primary Research Group Staff and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Survey of American College Students written by and published by Primary Research Group Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents approximately 125 tables of data exploring how full time college students in the United States view and use and evaluate their college library¿s information literacy training. The data in the report is based on a representative sample of more than 400 full time college students in the United States. Data is broken out by 16 criteria including gender, grade point average, major field of study, income level of students, type and size of college, and mean SAT acceptance score of colleges, among other variables. The report presents data on the percentage of students who have received information literacy training, how they evaluate the effectiveness of that training, how they perceive their need for additional training, whether they believe that an information literacy course should be required, if they have ever used online tutorials provided by the library, and how they evaluate their own information literacy skills. Just a few of the report¿s many findings are that: ¿More than 67% of the students in the sample say that they have received instruction on how to use their college¿s library. Older students are much more likely than younger ones to say that they have not received library or information literacy instruction. ¿Nearly 82% of students at colleges with a mean SAT acceptance score of greater than 1950 say that they have received library or information literacy instruction. ¿Most students find library instruction helpful. About 18.5% of students found the instruction that they received useless or largely useless while 31.72% considered it somewhat helpful and close to half considered it helpful or very helpful.
Download or read book SURVEY OF AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS written by Primary Research Group Staff and published by . This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Survey of American College Students written by Primary Research Group and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Survey of American College Students written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Survey of American College Students 2022 Use of Personal Study Rooms in the Academic Library written by Primary Research Group Inc. and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 88-page study presents data from a representative survey of 1,765 full time college students at 4-year colleges in the United States about their use of personal study rooms provided by academic libraries for individual students. The report presents highly detailed data on student awareness of the availability of such rooms, their incidence and frequency of use, and their evaluation of the importance of and quality of the rooms provided. Data is broken out by more than 20 institutional and personal variables including but not limited to: income of family of origin, race/ethnicity, religion, gender, regional origins, current employment status, sexual orientation, major field of study, age, year of school standing, type of college, size of college, tuition level of college, and many other variables. Just a few of the study's many findings are: ?Students who grew up outside of the USA were somewhat less likely than others to be aware of the availability of this service?46.34% of students studying biology, physics, chemistry and other hard sciences have used a personal study room in the academic library.?First year students used the personal study rooms more often than students in other years of class standing.?Students at larger colleges valued personal study rooms more than did those from smaller colleges.
