| School libraries are media recourse centers of primary, secondary and high schools, which serve the learning and teaching process, and educational science research. The impact studies of school library has begun since1960s in the foreign countries, accumulating considerable results. A large number of researches show that school libraries have positive effects on students’academic achievements and comprehensive capacities. However, in our country, such studies are quite lacking, and not be paid enough attention in practice area. Based on foreign researchers’ideas, this paper aims to identify the value of school libraries in Chinese educational context.The research involves three contents:first, examine whether there is a positive relationship between usage of school libraries and students’academic achievement; second, identify what services make this correlation possible; third, identify how school libraries help students.After the empirical study of one quality secondary school library, researcher finds that in the current educational context, the usage of school media center has no statistically relationship with students’academic achievement; in the perspective of students and teachers, although school library does help students in different ways, the outcomes are not quite obvious; only three services provided by library could effect text scores; the school library mainly help improving pupils’reading ability, which means provide easy access to books, provide space and atmosphere for reading, which may increase materials to students’writing; and the collections may support students’studying activities, such as social practice project.After interview with teachers and observation in the place, researcher believes that the reason about big differences between this result and foreign result, is China’s educational status covered and limited the value of school libraries, who pay more attention to the form of competence-based education than its connotation. |
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