Researchers to Repeat Landmark School-Library Study

Staff -- School Library Journal, 11/1/1998

A group of Colorado researchers is conducting a follow-up study to the landmark 1993 report that proved a direct link between good school libraries and higher student test scores.

Keith Curry Lance, principal investigator on the first project, said it was time for a second study because the data used in the original--from the 1989-90 academic year--is getting dated. Researchers will also be able to use results from a new Colorado achievement test that is more in line with current state educational standards than the previously used Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

The study, which Lance and his colleagues have dubbed "CO2," is funded by a $35,000 grant from the Colorado State Library through the federal Library Services and Technology Act. Final results will be released in 2000.