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UNIVERSITY
HARAMAYA ETHIOPIA
MAY 2013
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Table of content Page
CHAPTER ONE
Acknowledgment……………………………………………………………..I
Abstract……………………………………………………………………….II
1. Introduction………………………………………………………………...5
1.1 background of the study..............................................................…........5
1.2 statement of the problem………………………………………….........6
1.3 objective of the study ………………………………………………......6
1.4 significance of the Study ……………………………………………….6
1.5 limitation of the study…………………………………………………..6
CHAPTER TWO
2. Literate review………………………………………………………………7
CHAPTER THREE
3. Methodology………………………….……………………………….........10
3.1 Description of study Area and Population…………………………….10
3.1.1 Sampling frame ………………….………………………………….10
3.1.2 Sampling of Design …………………………………………………...10
3.1.3 Sample size Determination…………………………………………...11
3.2 Source of data…………………………………………………………...13
3.3 method of data collection……………………………………….............13
3.4 Variable of the study…………………………………………………....13
3.5 method of data analysis………………………………………………...14
CHAPTER FOUR
4. Result and discussion………………………………………………………16
4.1 Descriptive statistics…………………………………………………….17
4.2 Inferential Statistics………………………………………………..........20
CHAPTER FIVE
5. Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation…………………………….22
5.1 Summary………………………………………………………………….22
5.2 Conclusions……………………………………………………………….22
5.3 Recommendation………………………………………………………....22
Reference……………………………………………………………………...23
Appendix……………………………………………………………...............28
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Acknowledgment
First of all, thank to my god and I have great appreciation and profound sense of
gratitude to my advisor Awel Seid for his advice, comments and efforts in all stages
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Abstract
The main purpose of this research is that to assess the impact of library services on the
academic achievement of statistics students. The main variables include in the study
are:- sex, year of study, age, cumulative grade point average, library service, measure
of library service, collection of profile in the library, materials available for reserve
For this research 58 samples were selected from the total 161 students in department
The statistical methods that are used in this research are descriptive statistics such as
frequency table description and charts and the inferential statistics such as multiple
linear regression and chi-square test of independence. The conclusions of this study
were drawn as the the “benefits of library use” and
“Learning outcomes” attained are somehow related to the ways in which students use
the Library.
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1. INTRODUCTION
Why do libraries differ? The traditional types of library services (academic, public,
school, and special) are generally recognizably different from each other, although
each type of library may vary from one country to another. How might this be
explained?
The nature of the inquiries that are brought to the library service varies from one sort
of context to another. Different sorts of inquiries call for different sorts of services.
An author catalog is obviously less useful than a subject catalog for an inquiry framed
in terms of subject matter; the ability to browse in open stacks would seem more
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useful for inquirers whose wants are vaguely defined than for those who know
precisely which document they want.
The statement of problem states that does the response variable is affected by the
explanatory variables. The statements are:-
General Objectives
The general objective of this study is to assess the impact of library service on
the academic achievement of statistics students.
Specific objectives
To assess an impact of academic performance of students on the use of library
service.
To examine whether the availability of Reference services for statistics
undergraduates has an impact on their academic achievement by searching
books in the main catalog.
1.4 Significance of the Study
Serve as a base study for future similar studies on library service with
respect to learning activities of students.
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1.5 Limitation of the Study
When this study is conducted there are some limitations faced that hinder the study as
it needed. Which could be listed as follows:-
Lack of enough reference.
The course given earlier related with the research project was not given
adequately.
CHAPTER TWO
2. Literature review
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grade in some courses. However, she felt further investigation was required to look
closer at the habits of students achieving particular grades. She took a sample of high-
achieving students (70% or above for their final score) from humanities and science
courses and focused specifically on the open shelf collection (De Jager, 2002b).
Her findings were surprising: humanities borrowing was at high levels while science
students borrowed comparatively little. De Jager accepts that further analysis is
required incorporating e-resource usage to paint a broader picture of library use and
attainment.
Rowlands et al. (Rowlands et al., 2008) discuss the need for changing
branding of libraries. Regardless of the image of the Google Generation being highly
skilled with searching for online materials and discarding traditional resources,
previous research cited by Rowlands et al. (OCLC, 2006) demonstrates a
continuing desire of students to refer to books, while other studies find an
overestimation of the Google Generation’s electronic information- seeking skills by
students. Gross and Latham (Gross and Latham, 2007) found the lower the
skill the students had, the more they overestimated their skills, while Weiler
(Weiler, 2005) notes that the tendency to overestimate skills stems from the
assumption students know a great deal about the Internet ‘as a “cool” medium’ (p.
50).
Some research has already been carried out by Huddersfield indicating a relationship
between overall library use and attainment (Goodall and Pattern, 2011;
White and Stone, 2010). Preliminary work also indicates that e-resource
access at a moderate level does not necessarily equate to degree attainment, i.e. at a
usage level of 21–40 and 41–60 logins, those achieving first and third degrees had
roughly the same number of logins (Pattern, 2010). Clearly there are also other
considerations necessary here such as duration of database use, the nature of how they
searched, or what they used when they logged.
Library goodness
How does one know whether one library is better than another, or that a given library
is currently improving or degenerating? Can there be a single usable measure of
library goodness? If so, what is it? If not, why not? Measures of library goodness7 but
their credibility is undermined by the number of arbitrary assumptions that have to be
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made to piece the parts together. Nor should this be surprising. If one wants to choose
an automobile, one considers a variety of different factors: safety, appearance,
economy, speed, comfort, and so on. The problem is to relate this battery of factors to
one's resources, intentions, and personal set of values.
Although the quest for the Grail of Library Goodness has not (yet) been successful,
there has been no lack of measures of performance proposed, nor of people proposing
them. 8 There have been plenty of suggestions. What is lacking is a sense of coherence
—a sense of fitting together Orr’s schema
A discussion that can be very helpful in trying to grapple with concepts of library
goodness was published by Orr, 9 who points out that there is a fundamental
ambiguity in discussions of library goodness because there are two quite different
sorts of goodness:
Suppose, for example, that one were to amass a collection of Persian prayer books and
that, through assiduous purchasing and photocopying, this collection came to be the
largest collection of its kind in the world. Unquestionably, this would be a good
collection. If one were to add good cataloging and knowledgeable staff, then one
would have a good library. It would be good in the sense of quality. We can, in fact,
say more than this. Quality in this sense implies capability. Such a library collection is
of good quality because it is highly capable of meeting the needs of persons seeking
to learn about Persian prayer books.
On the other hand, it does not necessarily follow that even the highest quality library
will have beneficial effects. Let us imagine that this collection of Persian prayer books
were to be located in Bella Bella, British Columbia or some other relatively
inaccessible and sparsely populated area. What good would it do? In the absence of
utilization, it is difficult to imagine beneficial effects.
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Figure 20.1 Concepts of library goodness Source: R.M. Orr, "Measuring the Goodness of
Library Services: A General Framework for Considering Quantitative Measures," Journal of
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CHAPTER THREE
3. METHODOLOGY
This study conducted in Haramaya University which is founded in Oromia region far
from the Addis Ababa 506 km.Haramaya University (HU) is one of the higher
institutions in Ethiopia. It was established as institute of higher education in 1954.
Today it has three (3) campuses containing nine (9) faculties under which it has many
academic and administrative staff members Till 2012/2013, the university has about
12,992 undergraduate and post graduate students in different departments and
programs.
The study population of this project is the undergraduate students found in
department of statistics enrolled in 2005 E.C.
The precision of a sample estimate of the population mean depends on the size of the
sample. In addition to this, it also depends on the variability of the population. In a
stratified sample, the sampling error depends on the population variance existing
within the strata but not between the strata. Stratified random sampling is a sampling
plan in which a population is divided in to L mutually exclusive and exhaustive strata.
This design reduces sampling error.
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This study divides the population in to three mutually exclusive and exhaustive
classes; namely first, second and third year students. Stratum 1 is first year statistics
students,
Stratum 2 is second year statistics students and stratum 3 is third year statistics
students.
3.1.3 Sample Size Determination
Since the study population is classified into batches, the sample size was determined
by stratified for proportion.
And stratification is used to reduce sampling error and it can enable to control the
distribution of the field work among its regional office. In proportional allocation, the
size of sample from a given stratum will be proportional to the size if the stratum.
In this case, the sample size in each stratum is fixed.
Implies that:
nh= Nh
N Notation:
Where:-
no = (Zα/2)2pq
d2
Ph=whPh = NhPh
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Ζα/2= is the accuracy level of significance
nh= Nh n
N
Where:-
n1 = 55*58 =19.81
161
n2 =41*58 = 15
161
n3 =65*58 = 23
161
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Department Stratum Nh nh
1 55 20
statistics 2 41 15
3 65 23
Total 161 58
Table 1: Table of stratum in each batch
The source of the data for this study is statistics students in department of statistics
enrolled in 2013 time of the study.
In the study data would be collected using questionnaire from regular students of
statistics as respondents. The questioner is designed as closed types of questions
considering the library service available.
Sex
Year of study
age,
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library service,
information technology
Data collection for the variables was analyzed using descriptive statistics such as
frequencies and charts. In addition, the data was analyzed using inferential statistics
independency)
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ASSUMPTION OF MULTIPLE REGRESSIONS
Normality of errors: The regression model assumes that the random error terms are
normal distribution with mean 0 and variance constant.
Test of Hypotheses:
MSR
Test Statistic: F=
MSres
The overall goodness of the model can be checked by performing the hypothesis in
the following way:-
Ho: = ………………………. =0
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The statistics is F- distribution and its computation is based on the following table
Source of
variation Sum square D.F mean square F P value
MSR
If the computed F-value is higher than the tabulated F-value with k = degree of
freedom for regression and n-k-1 = degree of freedom for Residual at =0.05
significance levels, then we reject H 0 or (hypothesis that each of, β 0, β1……… βq
takes the value zero). Otherwise we do not reject the null hypothesis
(H 0).
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CHAPTER FOUR
Frequency tables are useful for summarizing categorical variables, variables with a
limited number of distinct categories. For each value of a variable, a frequency table
displays the number of times (count) that value occurs.
Frequencies
Valid Cumulative
Percent Percent Percent
Frequency
12 20.7 20.7 20.7
female
58 100.0 100.0
Total
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19 3 5.2 5.2 5.2
20 19 32.8 32.8 37.9
21 19 32.8 32.8 70.9
Age of respondent Valid 22 9 15.5 15.5 86.2
23 5 8.6 8.6 94.8
24 3 5.2 5.2 100.0
58 100.0 100.0
Total
4.1.1 Graphs
Graphs are used to analysis the result which include pie charts, bar charts, histogram,
etc. This study used bar charts and pie charts.
I. Bar chart
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Figure 1:- As we can see from the above bar chart we can conclude that; 20.69% of
female students of statistics are participated as a respondent and 79.31% of male
statistics students are participated in the study as a respondent. On the other hand, we
can say that there is low participation of female students of statistics department.
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Figure 2: It can be clearly seen that the analysis of the resulting data from
the pie chart reveals a strong correlation between students' grades and
use of information resources the library provides. Therefore we can
conclude that; 34.48% of statistics students always uses the library
service for their study time, 56.90% of statistics students usually use
the library service. While 1.72% of statistics students uses other
sources of study places and the rest are out of the indicated
circumstances.
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Inferential statistics
Inferential statistics is method deal with making inference or conclusion about
population based on data obtained from limited number of observations that come
from the total population. Inferential statistics consists of estimation and hypothesis
testing. The most appropriate methods that I select for this study are:-
- chi-square test of independence
- multiple linear regression
F- test
Model Summary
:- In the model summary of the inferential statistics R= 0.598
R square(R2) = 0.357, Adjusted R2 = 0.267 and Std. error of the
estimate= 0.397
ANOVAa
Total 12.265 57
Decision: since the p-value of analysis of variance is less than the level of significance
(0.002<0.05). Therefore we reject Ho: and conclude that the model fits good and
handles the data adequately
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Coefficients
Interpretation of coefficients:-
A change in academic year of students may result in increments of their
academic performance by an amount 0.340
If there is no adequate seasonal measure of the library service it would
decrease academic achievement of students by 0.094
If there is essential & enough materials in the library bookstore it can cause a
positive change in students academic achievement by an amount 0.223
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Cumulative grade point average of respondent
Since the points are very close to the Q-Q normal plot line shows that the data is
normally distributed.
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CHAPTER FIVE
Conclusion
It is generally agreed that library use is indeed beneficial (or even indispensable) for
Students to achieve their educational outcomes.
Although outcomes assessment might be used for the fulfillment of accountability, its
Original purpose is to explore how the academic library functions in order to better
contribute to students’ educational outcomes.
Based on the findings of this study, the following conclusions can be drawn. Majority
of statistics students have used the library services and they believe that the library
services are directly related with their learning activities their study program that
results an impact on their academic achievement.
Recommendation
From the conclusions of the study, the researcher makes the following
suggestions/recommendations: -
The study also showed that the “benefits of library use” and
“Learning outcomes” attained are somehow related to the ways in which students use
the Library. Focusing on this point, the study attempts to understand students’ use of
University libraries and clarify what educational outcomes are achieved in relation to
their Patterns of library use.
The study also shows variation in students’ academic achievement that result from
year of study program, and socio-economic background. In order to improve the
academic achievement of student in statistics department, the department should
follow its students in their learning activities. Also, the department should
recognize that students share many characteristics. University library services
should be designed to meet the range of information needs that arise not only in
statistics but also in other academic disciplines.
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Reference
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APPENDIX 1 Haramaya University
College of Computing and Informatics
Department Of Statistics
Questionnaire
The purpose of this questionnaire is to assess the impact of Library service given from
the university on academic achievement of statistics students of Haramaya University.
Instruction:
First of all I would like to thank you for your politely cooperation in filling this
questionnaire. Read the questions and fill your correct answer as much as possible
from the choice.
8. Are materials are appropriately available & accessible for reserve users?
A. Yes B. No
9. As you are undergraduate, do you get enough access to information technology for
accessing and working with information? A. Yes B. No
10. Are materials adequately safeguarded against loss, mutilation, theft, or other
damage? A. Yes B. No
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Thank you for your cooperation!!!
Appendix 2
Frequencies
Valid Cumulative
Percent Percent Percent
Frequency
12 20.7 20.7 20.7
female
58 100.0 100.0
Total
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56.9
Usually 33 56.9 6.9 91.4
Valid Never 4 6.9 1.7 98.3
Other 1 1.7 100.0 100.0
Total 58 100.0
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