Year two of the Claraboya research project: changing faculty attitudes regarding academic library resources for improving academic performance in selected subjects and student satisfaction

Abstract

The present research reports the results of the Claraboya project, focused on improving two variables: 1) student’s satisfaction with resources available in the campus library through the implementation of attitudinal changes in their teachers regarding reading assignments, and 2) students’ academic performance in the participant courses. Methods: Using a pre-experimental design, degrees of satisfaction a sample of 373 students for seven accessibility indicators were compared to those found in two random samples of participating students on the Service-Quality Survey from 2013. Findings: For six of the seven variables analyzed, averages obtained for the students in the Claraboya Project Research Survey (cprs) are higher than those reported in the in 2013 Sample 1 and 2013 Sample 2. Additionally, there is a statistically significant greater level of satisfaction in six and five variables against scores reported in the random samples. To check the second hypothesis, courses taught by the same teacher in 2012 and 2013 (Claraboya) were selected and their averages compared. Insofar as only four of the twentyone showed statistically significant differences, this hypothesis was rejected. Finally, the scope and limitations of this study are discussed.