The Deakin Teen Reading research program has been investigating the reading habits and preferences of young people in Australia. You'll find a range of their research findings and articles on their website. They have also shared their Discovering A Good Read report.
Read the report on the Teen Reading website.
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Softlink have published the results of their 2023 School Library Survey. Their report features staffing, funding and key areas impacting school libraries in Australia.
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Each year Softlink conduct their school library survey of schools around the world. Have you read the 2021 report on school libraries in Australia? Investigating staffing, funding and key areas, this is important data.
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Drawing on over a 100 years of resources for and about teacher librarians and school libraries in Australia and New Zealand, Knowledge Bank of Australian and New Zealand School Libraries (KBANZSL) provides a point in time finding aid to critical reports, books, papers and other resources for use by practitioners, researchers, administrators and advocates of school libraries and teacher librarianship.
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The preliminary findings for the Softlink 2020 School Library Survey Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific have been released.
This very important annual survey helps to raise awareness around staffing levels, funding, budgets, programs and areas of interest for school libraries.
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This report presents the results of a survey census and website review of school libraries, taken across all South Australian schools in Term 3, 2019. The census collected data on school library staffing, facilities, funding, and support. Results reveal that schools with a qualified teacher librarian are more likely to have improved student literacy outcomes. While 94 per cent of South Australian schools have someone to manage the library collection and to select resources, less than a quarter (23 per cent) are managed by a qualified teacher librarian. Questions about the nature of library provision in schools uncovered eight main modes of school library and information service provision of reading, research and curriculum resources currently in place across South Australian schools.
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Findings from Softlink's 2019 Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific School Library Survey into school library budgets, staffing, library services and trends.
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The first section of the document highlights research evidence on reading for pleasure from domestic and international literature; exploring evidence on the trends and benefits of independent reading amongst both primary and secondary- aged children, as well as why children read.
The second section covers the evidence on what works in promoting reading for pleasure.
Reference: UK Department for Education. (2012). Research evidence on reading for pleasure. Retrieved from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-evidence-on-reading-for-pleasure
Read the report on the UK Government website
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Competent Children, Competent Learners is a longitudinal study which began in 1993 and follows the progress of a sample of around 500 New Zealand young people from early childhood education through schooling and beyond. Several reports from the age-16 phase of the project have been published. This report summaries the key findings at age 16.
Author(s): Cathy Wylie, Edith Hodgen, Rosemary Hipkins and Karen Vaughan, New Zealand Council for Educational Research.
Date Published: May 2009
Read the article on the Education Counts New Zealand Goverment website
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Findings from Softlink's 2018 Australia, New Zealand and Asia-Pacific School Library Survey into school library budgets, staffing, library services and trends.
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