Selected Resources for: Education
| Subject Librarian: Laurel Haycock E-Mail: hayco001@tc.umn.edu Subject Description:This subject covers: general educational theory and practice; early childhood, elementary, and secondary education; and topics such as curriculum, instruction, learning, tests, and measurements. For adult education: see also "Education, Vocational and Technical." For special education: see also "Educational Psychology." For Tests: see also "Tests, Educational and Psychological" |
Abstracts and Indexes
* Premier Resources *Education Full Text   United States: Education Full Text offers full-text access to about half of the 500+ education journals indexed in it. While indexing began in 1983, abstracts were added starting in 1994. Full-text coverage began in January 1996 for selected journals. For more comprehensive research on education topics, both ERIC and Education Full Text should be searched as each includes unique resources. The scope is limited to English language periodicals and yearbooks. Education Full Text is an enhanced version of Education Abstracts. [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
| ERIC (Access via CSA) United States and Other Countries: For Education Topics use ERIC CSA for Find It access to U of MN e-journals; ERIC is the Education Resources Information Center. It provides access to education-related journal and non-journal literature. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, it provides full citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, curricula, government documents, dissertations, reports, and other educational materials. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
| Academic Search Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Digital Dissertations Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities. Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Masters theses from selected schools only. Provides bibliographic citations for older titles. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988. Some dissertations, beginning with 1997 publication dates, are available digitally. These include the University of Minnesota and other CIC member universities. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Education Index Retrospective Indexes nearly 600 education journals as far back as 1929. Includes book reviews. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| JSTOR Index to JSTOR, full text academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication up to a date defined, on a publisher by publisher basis, by a "moving wall". The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR. Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) assists both generalists and specialists in keeping abreast of cutting-edge developments in disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Physical Education Index Search PEI for a wide range of Physical Education & Kinesiology topics including physical education curricula, sports medicine, dance, sport law, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sports psychology & sociology. Scholarly and trade literature references are included. Abstracts were added starting in 2001. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| PsycINFO Covers all areas of psychology. Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts to articles from more than 1300 international journals in psychology and related fields. In addition, PsycINFO covers books, book chapters, and dissertations. PsycINFO supports searching cited references. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Social Sciences Citation Index (included in Web of Science) Covers the social sciences, including anthropology, history, industrial relations, information science and library science, law, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, political science, public health, social issues, social work, sociology, substance abuse, urban studies, and women's studies. Provides bibliographic citations, plus author abstracts "for approximately 60% of the articles in the database." Each citation also includes a list of references cited in the source article. In addition, it is possible to retrieve a list of works that have cited a specific author or a specific earlier work. Indexes articles, reviews, letters, etc. from over "1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals." [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| SPORT Discus The world's most comprehensive bibliographic resources for all aspects of sport and fitness. Includes Internet sites, conference papers, journal articles, unpublished papers and theses. Includes Full-text access to over 350 journals. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs| WorldCat This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education Covers all subjects. Provides bibliographic citations of books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films and machine-readable data files published worldwide. Provides holdings information for nearly 30,000 libraries. Producer/Publisher is OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 65 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Forms, Tests, Inventories| Mental Measurements Yearbook MMY, from the Buros Institute, contains the most recent descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests from the Buros Institute's 9th and more recent Yearbooks. The electronic version complements the print version. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Guides
Internet Resources
Electronic Texts| Handbook of research on teacher education : enduring questions in changing contexts Editors: Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Sharon Feiman-Nemser, D. John McIntyre, and Kelly E. Demers. E-book; print copy is also available in Wilson Library (TC Wilson Library LB1715 .H274 2008) [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| John Dewey: Collected Works The Collected Works of John Dewey are available via the Past Masters database. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| John Dewey: Correspondence A collection of the Correspondence of John Dewey is available via the Past Masters database. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
News Sources| Chronicle of Higher Education The Chronicle of Higher Education is the number one news and job-information source for college and university faculty members, administrators, and students. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| TCRecord Teachers College Record. Also, check MNCAT for Library electronic access and other copies. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Primary Source Materials
Historical Documents| ERIC Documents on Microfiche Microfiche collection of education documents indexed in Resources in Education and the online ERIC indexes. The fiche collection includes most ERIC documents with ED numbers. Journal articles indexed in ERIC (with EJ numbers) are not included. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| History of Education Microfiche Collection Based on the extensive holdings of the Milbank Memorial Library, Teachers College at Columbia University and the comprehensive collection of Harvard University Library. This microfiche collection of about 12,500 titles consists of letters, pamphlets, educational treatises and general works on the history of education published from the fifteenth century to World War I. Topics include: philosophy; legislation; works on Sloyd and vocational education; therapeutic gymnastics; American, Jewish, Chinese, Greek and English education; early childhood education and adult education; teacher training; graduation addresses; and biographies of educators. Contributors include: Erasmus, Mme. Necker de Saussure, Alexander Graham Bell, Juren Bona Meyer, Susanna Phelps Gage, Horace Mann, and Mary Tyler Peabody Mann. Note: use the History of Education paper indexes located on top of the microfiche cabinet. These indexes have not been cumulated and are subject specific so you have to look in the index that covers your topic. You can also view, download, or search the guide to the collection at http://microformguides.gale.com/BrowseGuide.asp?colldocid=1006000&Page=1 [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Official Agency & Organization Websites| Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching - Annual Reports The Carnegie Foundation is a policy center devoted to strengthening teaching and learning at America's colleges and schools. The Foundation conducts studies and publishes reports intended to shape public debate regarding education. Although its work is primarily focused on the United States, the Foundation also participates in international collaborations and projects. Note: It is the Carnegie Corporation (http://www.carnegie.org/); not the The Carnegie Foundation who awards grants. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 School reform legislation signed in to law on January 8, 2002, by President George W Bush. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Top American Research Universities The Top American Research Universities report, from the Center for Measuring University Performance, at Arizona State U (formerly located at the U of Florida), charts the comparative performance and offers analysis and data useful for understanding American research university performance. A key feature of this report (available online and in print) is The Center's classification of universities into groups based upon nine quality indicators. Institutions that have more than $20 million in annual federal research expenditures and that rank within the top 25 on at least one of the nine measures fall into their definition of a top research university. In this study, they also present a second group of institutions--those ranking 26-50 on the same nine measures. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Statistics and Data
Statistical Resources| National Center for Education Statistics The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| NCES Annual Reports From the NCES: The Condition of Education; The Digest of Education Statistics; Indicators of School Crime and Safety; Projections of Education Statistics; Education Statistics Quarterly. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
University of Minnesota
Related U of M Web Sites| College of Education and Human Development: University of Minnesota Information on programs, courses, research, faculty, and students. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Library Information
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