Dr. Ross J. Todd

PhD, MA, Graduate Diploma School Librarianship

BA, ATCL, Certificate Secondary Teaching, AALIA

RESEARCH GRANTS & PROPOSALS

Research Grants (Rutgers University)

2006 – 2007.  Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Office of Commonwealth Libraries.  “School Administrator’s Support for School Libraries:  The Impact on Student Achievement”.  $80,000.  Ross Todd, Carol Gordon and Ya-Ling Lu.

2006.  Kent State University Institute for Library and Information Literacy Education (ILILE).  “School Librarian – Classroom Teacher Instructional Collaboration”.  $30,000.  Ross Todd and Jannica Heinstrom.

2005 – 2006.  Rutgers University:  The President’s Program for Research in Service to New Jersey:  “The Impact of School Libraries on Student Learning in Abbott Schools of NJ”.  $10,000.  C. Kuhlthau. R. Todd & M. Winston.

2004 - 2006.  Delaware: Governor’s Task Force on School Libraries.  “School Libraries Infrastructure” and “Student Learning through Delaware School Libraries”.  $50,000.  R. Todd and C. Kuhlthau.

2003 – 2005.  Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries.  “Impact of School Libraries on Student Learning”.  $220,549    R. Todd, C. Kuhlthau & N. Wacholder.

2003 -2005.  Ohio Educational Library Media Association / State Library of Ohio. “Student Learning through Ohio School Libraries” $80,000.  R Todd & C. Kuhlthau.

Completed Research Projects (2002-2004)

Evidence-Based Practice in Australian School Libraries.  Commenced May 2002, completed September 2003.  Basis for Key note address at the International Association of School Librarianship in Durban, South Africa, July 2003; and journal articles

“Student Learning through Ohio School Libraries”  Commenced in October 2002 and completed December 2004.  This research explores the multi-dimensional relationship between an effective school library program and student learning outcomes.   

“Information Utilization for Learning through the School Library”  Commenced September 2002.  Phase 1:  50 Grade 9 students at Gill St Bernards School, Gladstone, NJ.  Phase 2:  30 Grade 11/12 psychology students.  Data collection complete, formal presentation of findings made to Gill St. Bernards School September 2004

Research Grants  (Previous to Rutgers)

All Grants are for the Calendar Year (which is same as Australia’s academic year).

External to UTS

Single Discipline

1998-2000:  $35,000.  Principal Investigator:  Catholic Education Office (Parramatta Diocese, Sydney, Australia)  Contract research with Celeste McNicholas, (Director of Information Services, Marist Sisters’ College, Woolwich).  “Evaluation of school library information collections and services”  

1996: $5,000 Principal Investigator.  Marist Sisters College Action Research: Integration of information technology into student learning:  case studies.  With Celeste McNicholas, Marist Sisters' College, Woolwich, NSW, Australia.

External to UTS

Multi-Discipline

1999-2000: $28,000.  Co-Investigator  (30%)  News Limited Australia / UTS Institute for Interactive  Multimedia  Development of custom front-end for News Limited’s web-enabled archive of news content for school students, based on adolescent information behaviour framework, and adolescent case study research.. 

Internal to UTS

Single Discipline

2000:  $8000.  Co-Investigator  (50%) UTS Internal Research Grant:  “Knowledge management in industry – conceptualising the knowledge environment”.

1999:  $2000.  Principal Investigator.  Department of Information Studies, UTS.  Seeding funding: “What is this ‘something’ that is ‘information’?  Adolescents and everyday life concerns with drugs”.

1999:  $3000.  Co-Investigator  (50%) Department of Information Studies, UTS.  Seeding Funding:  “Knowledge management perspectives of the information profession”.

1996:  $8,000.  Co-Investigator  (50%)  Large Internal Research Grant  UTS.  "What is the information of the information society: Conceptions of information” with Associate Professor Hilary Yerbury.

1993:  $3,645.  Principal Investigator.  UTS  School of Information Studies Research Grant:  "Instructional effectiveness of a conventional content-approach and an integrated content-information skills approach to Year 7 science education: a group comparison"

1992: $1520.  Principal Investigator.  UTS  Internal Research Grant:  UTS "Indexers and their theories in action:  determining the subject of documents"

1992: $1200.  Co-Investigator  (50%) UTS Internal Research Grant:  "An information professional's assumptions about the user: developing and measuring behavioural indicators".  Joint research with Harry Bruce.

1991:  $4900   Principal Investigator.  UTS  Vice-Chancellors Development Fund 

"Concept Mapping in Information Science": Project to enhance student learning through application of concept mapping techniques.

Multi-discipline

1996: $21,500   UTS Development Grant: Co-Investigator  (30%)   Development of Web Site for Institute for Interactive Multimedia based on information seeking behaviours of UTS academics and support staff, and undertaken through and information consolidation research methodology.  (Based on Saracevic’s work at Rutgers University)

1995: $11,000. Co-Investigator  (50%) UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Development Fund:  Development of Interactive Multimedia CD ROM:  "What is information?"  With Associate Professor Hilary Yerbury and Institute for Interactive Multimedia (UTS).  Instructional learning package

1993:  $3600.  Co-Investigator  (50%) UTS Centre for Sound and Image Research Grant:  "Designing and developing a hypermedia database prototype based on a target group's cognitive model of a specific subject area"  Joint research with Joan Parker & Wendy Bacon.

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