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Encyclopedias
Provide
excellent background/overview information. An excellent place
to begin research. Contain articles written by experts for a general
audience. Provide indexes indicating scope of coverage of a topic
and pinpointing in which articles a concept will be discussed.
Provide highly selected bibliographies for further reading.
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American
Educators’ Encyclopedia
(2nd floor Ref LB15 .D37 1991) |
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Dictionary
of Multicultural Education
(2nd floor Ref LC1099 .D53 1997) |
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Encyclopedia
of Educational Research
(2nd floor Ref LB15 .E48 1992) |
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Encyclopedia
of School Administration & Supervision |
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Encyclopedia
of Special Education
(2nd floor Ref LC4007 .E53 1987) |
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International
Encyclopedia of Education
(2nd floor Ref LB15 .I569 1994) |
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International
Encyclopedia of Higher Education |
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Knowledge
Base for the Beginning Teacher
(2nd floor Ref LB 1025.2 .K615) |
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Reference
Works
Handbooks,
dictionaries, statistical sources, tables; detailed or procedural
information highly specific to the subject areas addressed.
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Educator’s
Desk Reference: a Sourcebook of Educational Information and
Research
(2nd floor Ref LB1028.26 .F74 1989) |
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Mental
Measurements Yearbook
(1938 - present Ref Z5814 .P8 B932) |
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Tests
in print V: an index to tests, test reviews, and the literature
on specific tests
Z5814 .E9 T473 1999 |
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Content
Knowledge: a Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K12
Education 3rd ed. (LB 3060.83 .K46 2000) |
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Oregon
Laws Relating to Public Schools and Community Colleges (LB 2529
.O732) |
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Statistical
Sources
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Condition
of Education
(Ref L112 .N377a or online
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/AnnualReports/reports.asp?
type=condition |
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Chronicle
of Higher Education Almanac
(LB 2300 .C4) |
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Digest
of Educational Statistics
(Reference Desk or online via: National
Center for Educational Statistics http://nces.ed.gov/
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/AnnualReports/
reports.asp?type=digest) |
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National
Center for Education Statistics
(http://nces.ed.gov)
Portal
to vast array of education statistics compiled by the U.S.
Department of Education.
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National
Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP)
(http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/about/)
"The National Assessment of Educational
Progress (NAEP), also known as "the Nation's Report Card,"
is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment
of what America's students know and can do in various subject
areas. Since 1969, assessments have been conducted periodically
in reading, mathematics, science, writing, U.S. history, civics,
geography, and the arts."
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Projections
of Education Statistics
(http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/AnnualReports/
reports.asp?type=projections) |
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Oregon
Department of Education Reports and Statistics
(http://www.ode.state.or.us/stats/) |
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Oregon
University System Factbook
(Ref LD4348 .A192 S7 or online: http://www.ous.edu/irs/factbook98/WEBcontents/
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Research
Handbooks
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Databases
and Indexes
Magazine
and journal articles provide information on current developments,
research trends, experiments and hot topics in a discipline. For
every discipline, there are specific databases or indexes that
cover the published literature of the discipline. Once articles
are identified through the appropriate database or index, look
up the source journal in Vikat,
PSU Library's online catalog, to locate them in the library.
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Education
Full Text http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml/
Indexing 1983- Abstracting 1984 - Click here a list of the journals
(and dates included in full text (http://www.
hwwilson.com/journals/fedi.HTM) |
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Professional
Development Collection
Full text of ~400 journals and magazines for educators. |
| ERIC
The ERIC database provides citations to articles from approximately
900 journals in all areas of education and citations (and
in some cases links to full text) to 1000s of documents related
to all aspects of education. |
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ERIC
(Ebscohost version)
Dept. of Education interface to ERIC
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ERIC
Documents
Full
text of most documents from 1993 (ED 348466) to the present.
Requires Adobe Acrobat
reader for viewing the documents. |
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of ERIC descriptors can improve your search results. Consult
the Thesaurus online or use the Library's print copy. |
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ERIC
Thesaurus
Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors ( Z695.1 .E3 U5 ) |
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can I obtain the materials I find in ERIC? |
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Educational
Administration Abstracts
(L11 .E2764 1966 - ) |
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Higher
Education Abstracts
(LB2343 .A2 C6 1984 -) |
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Child
Development Abstracts and Bibliography
(HQ750 .A1 C47 1928 - ) |
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Exceptional
Child Education Resources
Covers the special education literature; includes citations
to books, articles, documents. |
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PsycINFO
Covers journals, books, book chapters and dissertations in psychology
and its subfields. |
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Kraus
Curriculum Development Library
Curricula, frameworks, and standards from all across the English-speaking
world, lessons and learning activities, educational objectives,
educational content, instructional strategies, evaluative techniques.
Provides full text from 2000-; prior to year 2000, materials
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Journals
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Subject
Headings
Subject
headings allow you to search library catalogs for materials on
a particular topic. Often subject heading searching can be more
productive than searching by simple keywords. Copies of the complete
set of the Library of Congress Subject Headings are available
at the reference desks throughout the library.
Selected
subject headings which may be of interest in education are:
| Adult
Education |
Critical
Pedagogy |
| Career
Education |
Distance
Education |
| Case
Method |
Early
Childhood Education |
| Communication
in Education |
Feminism
and Education |
| General
Education |
Learning,
Psychology of |
| School
choice |
Teachers |
| Education
-- aims and objectives |
| Education
-- experimental methods |
| Education
-- law and legislation |
| Education
-- philosophy |
| Education
-- finance |
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Subject
headings for books about teaching and pedagogy in specific
subject areas follow this pattern:
specific topic -- study and teaching (educational level)
e.g. language arts -- study and teaching--primary
mathematics -- study and teaching--elementary
social sciences -- study and teaching --secondary
biology--study and teaching--higher
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Call
Numbers
Browsing
the library shelves by call number ranges is another strategy
for locating information on a topic; call numbers can help you
get to the "right neighborhood" in the library stacks.
| L |
Education |
| LA |
History
of Education |
| LB |
Theory
and Practice of Education |
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1025 - 1050.7 Teaching (principles and practices) |
| LB
1140 - 1140.5 Preschool education |
| LB
1141 - 1489 Kindergarten |
| LB
1501 - 1547 Elementary education |
| LB
1603 - 1695 Secondary education |
| LB
2300 - 2430 Higher education |
| LB
2801 - 3095 School administration and organization |
| LC |
Social
Aspects of Education |
| LC
1390 - 5158 Education of special classes of persons |
| LD
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Individual
Institutions: United States
(e.g. works about or theses done at PSU start with LD 4349)
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Directories
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Organizations
Often
the best way to find information on a topic is to look for material
published by a professional society or an organization.
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Important
Resources
These
sources don't fit any particular category, but are important for
the discipline.
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