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Education Resources:
Professional Development Collection -
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world
- ProQuest
Education Databases - Indexes over 800 magazines and journals
in education. Full text / full image is approximately 50% for
current articles. This database is significantly less comprehensive
than ERIC (see below), but it has more full text.
- ProQuest
Research Library - May also have some relevant articles, particularly
if you are looking for the impact of education on society or any
non-professional viewpoints on education.
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- ERIC(CSA
version), or Eric-on-the-web
- Sponsored by the U.S. Dept of Education, indexes almost 1,000
education journals and more than 300,000 “ERIC documents” which
include items such as conference papers, research reports, curriculum
guides, program descriptions, theses and dissertations, pamphlets,
books, and government publications. All of the ERIC documents
except the copyrighted books (which are less than 1% of the total)
are on microfiche in Killam Library. Date coverage is 1966-present.
- ERIC (EBSCO Interface) -
the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
- PsycINFO
- Comprehensive and international, indexes articles in over 1,400 professional journals (in more than 30 languages) in psychology and related fields; also books and book articles and doctoral dissertations in English. Date coverage is 1967-present. Useful for articles about counseling and educational psychology.
REFERENCE DATABASES
- CollegeSource Online
- Over 17,000 college and university catalogs in full text. You can search colleges and universities by name or name keyword; country (for institutions outside the U.S.); geographic area (within a specified radius of a U.S. city); and other criteria (affiliation, state, enrollment, tuition range, majors offered, and highest degree offered).
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All subjects related to education are in classification L (including LA-LZ), excepting physical education which is in GV 201-555. L is on 3rd floor, GV is on 4th. These are the areas of the book collection to browse for education books.
Two important collections for education are on the 2nd floor of Killam Library: the Curriculum Collection, and the Juvenile Collection. The Curriculum Collection is a collection of K-12 textbooks adopted for classroom use by the state of Texas. It is arranged by grade level and subject. The Juvenile Collection is a collection of children’s and young adult books. It is arranged by Library of Congress classification, like most of the library’s collections - most of the Juvenile Collection books are in classification PZ, which is fiction and children’s literature.
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Encyclopedia of Educational Research (REF LB 15 .E48 1992, 4 vols.) discusses research models and procedures and seminal research studies in such subject areas as attitude measurement and distance education. This source, though dated, can be useful in selecting and designing educational research projects.
Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology (REF LB 1028.3 .H355 1996), Handbook of Research on Curriculum (REF LB 1570 .H264 1992), Handbook of Research on Educational Administration (REF LB 2805 H2864 1999), Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning (REF QA 11 .H26 1992), Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education (REF LC 1099.3 .H35 1995), Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning (REF MT 1 .H138 1992), Handbook of Research on Science Teaching and Learning (REF Q 181 .A1 H35 1994), Handbook of Research on Social Studies Teaching and Learning (REF LB 1584 .H275 1991), Handbook of Research on Sport Psychology (REF GV 706.4 .H37 1993), Handbook of Research on Teacher Education (REF LB 1715 .H274 1996), Handbook of Research on Teaching (REF LB 1028 .H315 1986), Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts (REF LB 1576 .H234 1991), and Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children (REF LB 1119 .H29 1993) provide models and seminal research studies in more specific areas of education, as indicated in the titles.
TESTS
Mental Measurements Yearbook (REF Z 5814 .P8 T45) supplies descriptions and reviews of published standardized tests.
Tests In Print (REF Z 5814 .E9 T47) supplies detailed descriptions and directory information (including how to order copies) of published standardized tests.
COLLEGE / UNIVERSITY DIRECTORIES
HEP Higher Education Directory (REF L 901 .E31a), The College Blue Book (REF L 901 .C64, 5 vols.), Peterson’s 4-Year Colleges (REF L 901 .P447), and Peterson’s Graduate & Professional Programs (REF L 901 .P442) are standard directories. Also useful is the CollegeSource Online database (above).
TEACHER CERTIFICATION
Requirements for Certification of Teachers, Counselors, Librarians, Administrators (REF LB 1771 .W8) gives the certification requirements for all 50 states. A new edition is added to the collection every year.
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- Educator's Reference Desk - The educational resources page for the Information Institute of Syracuse. Most of what used to be in the AskERIC database has moved here. There are links to over 3,000 valuable web sites and web documents, a database of lesson plans, and an archive of questions and answers that were asked at the AskERIC email reference service between 1992 and 2003. The ERIC database is accessible through this site, but it is better to use our subscription site here unless you can’t log in to the proxy server.
- BRAINTRACK University Index - Links to college and university webpages worldwide, arranged by continent and then by country.
- College and University Rankings - Developed by the Education and Social Science Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Presents a discussion of the methodologies of ranking and rating colleges and universities (Caution & Controversy) and links to most of the major sites which provide rankings and ratings.
- Education Index - A megasite of links to educational websites, arranged by subject and by “Lifestage” (preschool, primary, middle, secondary, college, graduate, distance learning, continuing education, parenting, and careers). The sites are primarily intended for use by the target “Lifestage;” under “Secondary,” you’ll mostly find sites for secondary students to use, not sites about secondary education.
- Education Week - “American Education’s Online Newspaper of Record.
- ExCET homesite - Complete ExCET preparation manuals and study guides which can be downloaded in PDF format.
- National Center for Education Statistics - A site of the U.S. Dept. of Education for disseminating statistics related to education in the United States. Use the Electronic Catalog to access detailed statistical reports arranged by subject, or search for statistics by keyword in the Encyclopedia of ED Stats, Quick Tables & Figures, or NCES Quick Facts (try all three if you don’t find what you’re looking for the first time). The Global ED Locator has statistical and descriptive information on U.S. colleges and universities, public schools and school districts, public libraries, and private schools.
- TASAnet (Texas Association of School Administrators) - A wide range of information of interest to Texas teachers and administrators, including government and school board relations, budget and finance, curriculum, teacher certification, community/parental involvement, professional development, legal topics, accountability and performance standards, and vouchers and charter schools. There is an Educator Job Bank of positions for administrators, teachers, and other school personnel, and a number of valuable links to school district and education-related web sites in Texas.
- Texas Education Agency homesite - Links to TEA documents and other pertinent sites, including the complete TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) documents (under Curriculum & Assessment).
- Texas Teachers Net - A web site for Texas teachers, with many chatrooms and chat boards, a mailring (email list) and notices of live events, and a Job Center with positions for teachers and administrators. This is a local division of Teachers Net (“The Ultimate Teacher’s Resource!”) which has a very large selection of services and information sources for teachers.
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