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Project VIEWS2 and You

•  Dr. Eliza T. Dresang, Principal Investigator

•  Dr. Cheryl Metoyer, Principal Investigator

•  Dr. Allyson Carlyle, Co-Investigator

•  Katie Campana, Research Assistant

•  Ivette Bayo Urban, Research Assistant

•  J. Elizabeth Mills, Research Assistant

•  Dr. Janet Capps, Consultant

•  Dr. Kathy Burnett, Consultant

•  Dr. Erika Feldman, Consultant

•  Dr. Bowie Kotrla, Statistician

Eliza T. Dresang – In Memoriam

http://eliza.ischool.uw.edu/

Objectives for Today’s Session

•  Main goal: Present the planning and evaluation tools we have developed.

•  Provide us with your ideas around using our tool in storytimes.

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Question:

•  How can we know whether the early literacy focus of storytimes makes a difference for children’s learning to read successfully?

VIEWS2 Goals

•  Conduct innovative research in library literacy programs for young children that provides valid and reliable evidence for practice. •  EL-Capstone

•  BCPAF

•  PET

•  ELSA

•  Provide evidence-based methods for planning and evaluating the outcomes of library early literacy programs that better prepare children to learn to read.

Field/Practice

Design research

Advisory panel

MLIS course 1

Data collection

Advisory panel

Librarian training

Advisory panel

MLIS course 2

Data collection

State Library Advisory Meeting

(SLAM)

Inform practice

The Process

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Tools: BCPAF* and PET

*Developed by Dr. Erika Feldman, Ph.D.

36 months to 60 months   Reading Goal 67: Children demonstrate awareness of the alphabetic principle Librarian Children

Points out shapes with specific letters Associates the names of letters with their shapes

Prompts children to match letters and sounds

Correctly identifies ten or more letters of alphabet

Prompts children to think about how letters and numbers are different

Design of Study

•  Training was focused on research-based on early learning principles •  Alphabetic knowledge

•  Phonological awareness

•  Interactivity

Year 1 Study Results

•  Storytimes ARE making a difference!

•  BCPAF and PET CAN BE used to observe storytime programs and the response the children had to the program.

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Year 2 Study Results

•  When comparing the observations from Year 1 and Year 2 for the control group we found NO statistically significant changes in the librarians’ programs (PET) or the children’s behaviors (BCPAF).

AND

•  When comparing the observations from Year 1 and Year 2 for the experimental group we found there WERE several statistically significant changes in both the librarians’ programs (PET) and the children’s behaviors (BCPAF).

Bottom Line

Purposeful focus on early literacy principles makes a difference in programs and in children’s early

literacy behaviors.

BCPAF/PET and ECRR 1&2

Where do these tools fit with ECRR 1 and ECRR 2?

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Planning

Birth to 18 months

Children Librarian

Shows beginning sound awareness by reacting differentially to different sounds

Exposes children to and exaggerates different phonological sounds

Imitates vocalizations and sounds

Plays with different early sounds the children start with (e.g., ma, pa, ba)

18 – 36 months Children Librarian Recites phrases from familiar rhyme

Provides children with age-appropriate rhymes

Completes a familiar rhyme by providing the last word

Uses reading style (e.g., pauses before the end of familiar rhymes or games where children can say the last word of the rhyme

36 – 60 months Children Librarian

Participates in and creates songs, rhymes, and games that play with sounds of language

Provides activities such as sing-alongs, rhyming, or other word-play games

Identifies initial sound of words, with assistance, (e.g., book begins with the “b” sound)

Reinforces recognition of word beginning sounds

Evaluation

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Wrap Up and Questions

Evans, A., Dresang, E., Campana, K., & Feldman, E. (Summer, 2013). Research in Action: Taking Classroom Learning to the Field, Journal of Education for Library and Information Science.

Thank you!

Contact Info

To stay connected with Project VIEWS you can:

•  Twitter:         #VIEWS2, @UW_VIEWS2

•  Facebook:      www.facebook.com/VIEWS2

•  Website:       digitalyouth.ischool.uw.edu