| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育科技學系 === 92 === This research aims to find out the competence indicator of the instructional media specialists of the instructional resources center in elementary schools and to define the content areas of the training courses for the instructional media specialists. The results of
this research are expected to serve as a blueprint to implement the training courses for instructional media specialists in the future.
The Delphi technique was used to conduct the research. Literature reviews, which helped the researcher draft a questionnaire, focused on the functions of instructional resources center as well as the required capacities of the instructional media specialists and librarians. Sixteen experts were invited to take part in the research. Their responses to a series of questionnaires (three times) were anonymous, and they were provided with a summary of opinions before answering the next questionnaire.
The results of the three questionnaires, processed and analyzed through Arithmetic Mean, Quartile Deviation, and Standard Deviation, find out the capacities of the instructional media specialists of the resources center in elementary schools and the content areas of the training courses for the instructional media specialists.
The research covers two major areas: (1) The competence indicator of instructional media specialists and, (2) the content areas of the training courses for the instructional media specialist.
The conclusions of the research are summarized as follows:
1.The instructional media specialists should be armed with five types of capacities: (1) capacity of teaching and consulting, (2) capacity of providing information service, (3) capacity of offering media technology service, (4) capacity of administrating, and (5) capacity of pursuing professional development.
2.The training courses for cultivating the instructional media specialists should cover three aspects: (1) library information, (2) technological application, and (3) administration.
3.The forty-five items of the five major capacities are considered“very important”by the experts who answered the questionnaire.
4.The fifteen items of the three aspects for the training course are considered “very important”by the experts as well.
Based on the research results, the researcher provided some suggestions for the authorities concerned and the schools which intent to transform their library into an instructional resources center. In addition, recommendations for further research are listed in the end.
1.Educational institutes are advised to
(1) provide a model school which has a successful
instructional resources center,
(2) evaluate school libraries on the regular basis.
2.Schools which want to change their school library into a
instructional resources center are advised to
(1) refer to this research and prioritize the important
courses proposed to train future media specialists,
(2) find out the weakest capacities of the existing
personnel in the library and design the training
courses accordingly.
3.Recommendations for further research
(1) Study the delivery approaches of the training courses
for the instructional media specialists of instructional
resources centers in elementary schools.
(2) Explore the possibilities of a certificated system
for the instructional media specialists of instructional
resources centers in elementary schools.
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