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Click here for Education databases.
The best starting point for any sort of research, databases are large collections of information which may include citations, abstracts, ebooks, fulltext articles from scholarly journals or magazines, images, multi-media files and more.
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NEW: Films on Demand-Education. Collection of streaming videos on curriculum, instruction, special education, and more. VIDEOS.
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Find Journals on Education.
Journals found here are available in print at Plough Library and/or online through CBU databases. Look for the name of the journal you are interested in, for example:
- british journal of special education
- diverse issues in higher education
- international journal of multicultural education
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Educational Research, Methodology & Measurement, 2nd ed., 1997. R370.7 E318
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Encyclopedia of American Education, 2nd ed., 2001. R370 U54
- Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, 2nd ed., 2009. EBSCO ebook.
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Encyclopedia of Education. Macmillan Reference USA, 2003. R370.3 E47
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Encyclopedia of special education: a reference for the education of children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities and other exceptional individuals, 2007. Credo ebook.
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Handbook of Educational Psychology. London: Prentice Hall International, 1996. R370.15 H2
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Handbook of Research on Teacher Education, 2nd ed., 1996. R370.71 H274
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Requirements for certification of teachers, counselors, librarians, administrators: 66th ed., 2007-2008. R371.12 K9 2007
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Special education: a reference handbook, 2001, R371.9 S33
See also this free online collection:
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National Academies Press: 4000+ free-for-download pdfs of research publications in various fields, including education and the behavioral and social sciences.
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Blue Web'n: A Library of Blue Ribbon Learning Sites on the Web
CCBC: Cooperative Children's Book Center: Resources for librarians, teachers, and students of children's literature from the School of Education at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Child Care & Early Education Research Connection: Resources indexed and housed on the Research Connections site cover a broad spectrum of research on child care and early education and related policies.
Doing What Works: Online collection of research-based education practices.
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC): Open access database of citations to education literature; includes selected full text.
Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD)
The Educator's Reference Desk: Contains AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
Encyclopedia of Educational Technology: Articles provide definitions and overviews on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training.
International Children's Digital Library: Offers a growing collection of outstanding historical and contemporary children's books from throughout the world.
New Teachers Home Page: Created by educators, this site offers a newsletter on teaching tips, Classroom Resources, and Practical Tips and Articles.
PBS TeacherSource.
TEL4U: easy-to-use collection of free resources for grades K-5. Homework help, ebooks, games & activities, and Tennessee state history.
U.S. Department of Education: Features information selected especially for parents, teachers, students, and administrators; press releases; Information Centers for financial aid, grants and contracts, policy, programs, and research and statistics.
Associations
Local Schools
Exceptional Children
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Statistics
ChildStats.gov: Offers easy access to statistics and reports on children and families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.
The Condition of Education: Report from NCES summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data
KidsCount Data Center: Look up measures of child well-being by and across states.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
State Education Data Profiles: Search for statewide information in elementary/secondary education, postsecondary education and selected demographics for all states in the U.S.
Lesson Plans
Discovery School Lesson Plans Library
FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies.
Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM): Browse or search in one place for collections of educational materials available on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching: Find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials, K-12 and college-level.
ScienceEducation.gov - educational resources from the U.S. Department of Energy, in science, technology, engineering, and math (K-16).
Teachers' Domain: Offers classroom-ready multimedia resources for use in lessons or independent study, and Teachers Domain Professional Development courses which utilize the same resources along with videos of exemplary classroom practice. Currently includes collections on Science and Social Studies.
Alternative Education
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