School Resource Center and Students’ Civilization in Digital Age

Shamila Mohamed Shuhidan*, Mayasari Abdul Majid, Shuhaida Mohamed Shuhidan, Norizan Anwar, Azma Asnawishah Abd Hakim,Fadzliaton Zainudin

shamila@uitm.edu.my

Submission 264

GRaCe 2020

mailto:shamila@uitm.edu.my

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

1 Introduction

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Research Background

Problem Statements & Literature Review

Methodology, Findings and Discussion

Introduction

Recommendations and Conclusion5

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INTRODUCTION

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INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATION

SCHOOL RESOURCE CENTER

Also known as School Library and the existence is to

support

Teaching & Learning

School’s physical anddigital learning space offerlearning services and

resources to the

school community

STUDENTS CIVILIZATION

Important roles of

SRC to

support teaching &

learning related to Students Civilization

RESEARCH BACKGROUND

• The Malaysia Education Blueprint2013 – 2025 was developed totransform our education system tomeet these challenges.

• The school curriculum at both primaryand secondary levels is revised toembed a balanced set of knowledgeand skills such as creative thinking,innovation, problem-solving, andleadership.

EDUCATION IN MALAYSIA

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• SRC will be assessed every year based on indicator for SRC at the level 1 – 5 stars.

• SRC Indicator :i. Various collections beside booksii. Ratio books per studentsiii. Space in SRCiv. Information Literacy programmev. Efficiency of SRC management

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2SRC IN MALAYSIA

• Established before 1957, with the aims of SRC

as a place that generates the knowledge and

literacy-based society

• There are 10,208 schools in Malaysia

have SRC (MoE, 2019)

• SRC been supervised by ETD, MoE and

manage by Library Media Teacher

RESEARCH BACKGROUND

• It is important to highlight theexistence of SRC in 21st centurylearning as issues such as hoax,information overload, dependency onthe Internet and inability to solve reallife problems

• Produce well balance students

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The term civilization refers to the level of

knowledge where the SRC roles act as a knowledge

hub, which offers a variety of collections in a

conducive learning space to support innovative

educational practices of 21st century learning to

students.

STUDENTS CIVILIZATION

PROBLEM STATEMENTS

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TOO MUCH RELY ON

INTERNET: INFORMATION

SOURCES

• 21st century learning as issues such as hoax, information overload, dependency on the Internet and inability to solve real life problems.

LACK OF INFORMATION LITERACY

SKILLS

The impact of disruptive technology changes the students' information seeking behavior as more students nowadays depend on the Internet to locate information for academic purposes.

• LACK OF AWARENESS ROLES OF

SRC ON STUDENTS’ CIVILIZATION

As all schools required to have SRC in their

schools, most of school management still lack of

awareness that SRC can boost students’

civilization in education ie: level of knowledge

MODERN CIVILIZATION

Modern civilization in changeddirection of personal life, social, andcultural growth among students,especially millennial students

LITERATURE REVIEW

Linking SRC and Student Civilization

Literacy & ITprogramme(Yushiana&Norhiyah,

2011; Wilmolsittichai,

2017)

Instillingreading culture

(Husain, 2020;Wainwright et al,

2016)

Deep-rootedlearning space &

experience(Ismail et al.,

2013;Todd, 2011)

AssistTeachers with T&L activities

(Kamal&Normah,

2011; Boelen, 2010)

ROLES

Well established collection & programmes

(Lance, 2018)

Authors Findings

William et al. (2013)

Hoffman (2016)

Increase the motivation level amongstudents by provides emotionalsupport and the role of LMT canpositively influence struggling students

Usage of SRC by the students

contributes to their level of knowledge and

performance

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

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RESEARCH QUESTIONS

RQ1: What are the purpose of SRC based on

students’ gender and age?

RQ2: Does SRC roles has significant

relationship on student civilization?

RO2: To examine the relationship between

SRC roles on student civilization

RO1: To identify the purpose of SRC based on the

students’ gender and age.

RESEARCH METHODLOGY

RESEARCH DESIGN

Online questionnaires

Quantitative

Approach

Conveniencesampling

Stage 1:

Literature

Review

Stage 2:

Quantitative

Method

• Conceptual Framework

• Research Questions

• Instrument development

• Pre Test

• Pilot Study

• Survey Questionnaire

- Secondary Students

• - Respondents 560

• Statistical Data Analysis

(SPSS 28)

FINDINGS

Frequency Percentage (%)

Gender Male 235 42Female 325 58

Age 13 years old 70 1314 years old 221 3915 years old 87 1616 years old 48 917 years old 134 24

Purposea Assignment 457 28.0Internet Access 299 18.3Discussion 140 8.6Reading 304 18.6Exam Preparation 268 16.4Relief Class 167 10.2

Assista Media’s teacher 252 25.5Subject’s teacher 290 29.3Friends 447 45.2

Frequencya Every day 162 27.3Once a week 56 9.4Twice in a week 148 24.9Sometimes 228 38.4

Table 1. Demographic Profile

Cross tabulation analysis GENDER towards purpose of using the SRC

GenderTotal

Male Female

Frequency Percentage (%)

Frequency Percentage (%)

Purpose

Assignment 184 40.3 273 59.7 457

Internet Access 138 46.2 161 53.8 299

Discussion 71 50.7 69 49.3 140

Reading 130 42.8 174 57.2 304

Exam Preparation 94 35.1 174 64.9 268

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Purposea Assignment 54 11.8 184 40.3 73 16.0 33 7.2 113 24.7 457 Internet Access 35 11.7 121 40.5 35 11.7 26 8.7 82 27.4 299 Discussion 19 13.6 53 37.9 21 15.0 15 10.7 32 22.9 140 Reading 40 13.2 101 33.2 55 18.1 31 10.2 77 25.3 304 Exam Preparation 35 13.1 96 35.8 40 14.9 23 8.6 74 27.6 268 Relief Class 11 6.6 59 35.3 21 12.6 22 13.2 54 32.3 167

The Relationship between SRC and Students’ Civilization

Table 3. Descriptive analysis for each variable

Item Mean Std. Deviation Skewness

Think positively with new knowledge 4.21 0.856 -0.957

Ability to identify the right information through

available references

4.15 0.876 -0.769

Sharing information and knowledge ethically 4.21 0.827 -0.855

Value the importance of information in the

learning process

4.20 0.852 -0.990

Appreciate the legacy of preserving knowledge of the value of life

4.11 0.896 -0.796

Comprehensively integrate information to solve

problems in academic tasks

4.21 0.843 -0.864

Apply knowledge and practice wisdom in life 4.35 0.832 -1.208

Overall Average of Civilization 4.21 0.855 -0.920

Discussion

Findings show that students at the age of 14 years frequently

visit SRC for completing their assignments and majority of

them are female. This study consistent with Pew Research

Center report, (2017) found that millennials are the most likely

generation to use libraries especially library websites and

female more likely than male visited library.

It found that the main item of the usage of SRC towards civilization is through SRC act as the knowledge hub and students can practice as a wisdom person with the value of 4.35 and overall mean result is 4.21 the value of civilization. This show a positive indication the use of SRC towards students’ civilization ie. increase their level of knowledge.

SRC served the reading materials in various format and providing with information literacy skills to access resource-based learning and deal with the real digital learning environment. (Powell, 2017; Shamila, 2013).

Source :https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/School-outreach-boosts-Oliver-Wolcott-Library

-11493379.php/

Source :https://ebookfriendly.com/library-future-technologies/

RECOMMENDATIONS

Appointed qualified, expert

and well-trained LMT

Quality and attractive

SRC programmes

E.g: Accelerated Reader

Update and latest

version

of

information resources

E.g: Augmented Reality books

Applying latest technology, apps, and tools SRCE.g :Libguide

Virtual & physical

learning spaces

E.g : Makerspace

Collaboration between NLM,

MoE, universities, industries

to support SRC in

Teaching & Learning

E.g : Outreach programme

SRCIn 21st

century

Conclusion

This study provides valuable insight regarding the relationship between SRC roles and students’ civilization. The existence of SRC in every schools with the objective to provide quality

education for the lifelong learning will act as a catalyst for the

self-learning and to prepare students to become a knowledge

based individual and more civilized.

This study adds the literature to the body of knowledge, practical implication provide evidence and understanding of SRC roles towards students’ civilization.

It also to assist Malaysian Education Ministry in aligning education system to strengthen the policy and standard of SRC implementation and the needed of SRC transformation to prepare the students to be lifelong learners in 21st century learning and will be soaring upwards into the global era as civilized society.

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