Areas of Research

• New literacies
• Information literacy
• School libraries

Current Research Projects

Towards a Pedagogy for Using the Internet to Learn. This project works with teachers to develop teaching approaches and learning activities that support the particular challenges of learning the academic disciplines with online resources.

Adolescents' Internet Literacy. Humanities and Social Sciences, UBC. This project observes adolescents’ use of the Internet as do they homework, and examines parent, student and teacher views on internet use for learning the academic disciplines.

Teaching Information Literacy in the Middle Grades. SSHRC Standard Grant This project examines aspects of classroom and school library programs that help students effectively locate, evaluate, organize and communicate information.

New Literacies and New Libraries: The Expanding Role of the School Library. This project explores the role of school library programs in supporting today’s digital learners.

Assessment Practices of Reading and Writing with New Technologies: A Canadian Perspective. SSHRC Co-investigator: Margaret Early. This project explores the issues that those responsible for large scale assessment policies confront as literacy curricula expand to include ICT literacies.

Recently Published Work

Asselin, M. & Doiron, R. (Eds.) (2008). School Libraries Worldwide, 14 (2). Editors of themed issue, New learners, new literacies, new libraries.

Asselin, M. & Moayeri, M. (2008). Toward a pedagogy for using the internet to learn: An examination of adolescent internet literacies and teachers, parents, and students’ recommendations for educational change. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Association of School Librarianship.

Asselin, M. & Lam, V. (2007). Learning to learn: An examination of instructional support during a grade 9 research project . Studies in Media and Information Literacy Education (4), 1-18.

Asselin, M., Early, M., & Filipenko, M. (2006). Accountability, assessment, and the literacies of information and communication technologies. Canadian Journal of Education, 29 (1), 670-689.

Doiron, R. & Asselin, M. (Eds.) (2005). Literacy, libraries and learning: Using books and online resources to promote reading, writing and research. Toronto, ON: Pembroke.

Asselin, M. (2005). Redefining the school library’s role in literacy teaching and learning. In R. Doiron & M. Asselin (2005), Literacy, libraries and learning: Using books and online resources to promote reading, writing and research (pp. 9-19). Toronto, ON: Pembroke.

Henri, J & Asselin, M. (Eds.) (2005). Leadership issues in the Information literate school community. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.

Asselin, M. (2005). Preparing preservice teachers as members of the information literate community. In J. Henri & M. Asselin (Eds.), Leadership issues in the information literate school community (pp. 187– 202). Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.

Asselin, M. (2005). Teaching information literacy in the information age: An examination of trends in the middle grades. School Libraries Worldwide, 11 (1), 17 – 36.

Asselin, Marlene, Dreher, M J. (2004). New literacies for the new information age: Conceptions, instruction, and teacher preparation. National Reading Conference Yearbook (pp. 115–129) National Reading Conference.

Asselin, M., Branch, J., & Oberg, D. (Eds.) (2003). Achieving information literacy: Standards for school library programs in Canada. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Library Association.

Asselin, M., & Doiron, R. (2003). An analysis of the inclusion of school library programs and services in the preparation of preservice teachers in Canadian universities. Behavioral and Socal Sciences Librarian, 22 (1), 19-33.

Scott, J.A. Jamieson, D., & Asselin, M. (2003). Casting a broad net to catch vocabulary instruction. Elementary School Journal, 103 (3), 269-286.

Asselin, M. & Lee, E. (2002). I wish someone had taught me: Information literacy in a teacher education program. Teacher Librarian, 30(2), 10 - 17.

Asselin, M., & Froese, V. (2002). Reading in Canada with a focus on British Columbia. In C. Papanastasiou & V. Froese (Eds.), Reading literacy: History, curriculum, and research. Cypress, Greece: Cypress University Press, 11-41.

Asselin, M. (2001). Grade 6 research process instruction: An observation study. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, XLVII (2), 123-140.

Asselin, M. (2000). Poised for change: Effects of a teacher education project on preservice teachers' knowledge of the school library program and role of the teacher-librarian. School Libraries Worldwide, 6(2), 72-87.

Asselin, M. (2000). Confronting assumptions: Preservice teachers' beliefs about reading and literature. Reading Psychology, 21(1), 31-57.

Asselin, M. (1999). Independent reading in the classroom: Starting points for partnerships with teachers. School Libraries in Canada, 18 (3), 5-9.

Asselin, M. (1999). Planting the seeds of instructional partnerships: An exploratory study of preservice teachers learning to teach with teacher-librarians. In J. Henri & K. Bonanno (Eds.), The information literate school community. Wagga Wagga, Australia: Centre for Information Studies, 157-172.

Updated July 2008