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Click Databases to access ERIC, Proquest, Full-text dissertations, and other subject-specific databases.
Multidisciplinary and Reference Tools will direct you to other more general databases.
The resources available in the other tabs are meant to compliment more general resources, such as ERIC, available through the library. Many of the links are to freely available authoritative websites about specific topics and issues in the field of Education. There are also some links to resources only available to LMU students which may require the database login. Please contact the library for additional assistance.
Education Databases
ERIC is the premier database for education related journal articles and documents. Full-text access to many of the articles and documents is provided. If an item is not offered in full-text, check the library catalog for the journal title (not article title).
The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the1600s. New titles and disciplines are being added regularly. Issues of journals are never “out;” they are always accessible, and in excellent condition. The capacity for searching across disciplines opens up vast possibilities for scholarship and research.
Professional Collection is a custom selection of more than 300 full text journals for educators.
A comprehensive collection of scholarly research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, this database covers more than 1 million dissertations and theses.
This database contains more than 400 leading journals in the field. Many are available in full text.
Other Education Databases
Provides business and education directories that include addresses, phone, e-mail, and websites for a large number of journals to help students and faculty publish their manuscripts.
Content is from over 400 full-text scholarly and academic journals, hundreds of reports, and a variety of reference sources and focuses on principles and practices in education, child development, educational psychology, and more. The majority of the full-text titles included can also be found in the ERIC database.
Content includes the full text from over 200 journals and covers a wide variety of subjects, such as the latest technological developments relating to education, instruction and coaching breakthroughs, and child health and psychology.
Contains descriptive information & critical reviews of commercially-available standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement & intelligence tests.
Multidisciplinary Databases
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF back files to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles.
An Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) index of articles from the contents pages of journals.
A comprehensive database of biographical information on nearly 300,000 notable people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.
An Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) collection of scholary journals.
Web provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines. The full-text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
U.S. Government Publications.
The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the1600s. New titles and disciplines are being added regularly. Issues of journals are never “out;” they are always accessible, and in excellent condition. The capacity for searching across disciplines opens up vast possibilities for scholarship and research.
NetLibrary provides access to digital versions of books from a broad range of subject areas and topics.
Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide.
Online Computer Library Center index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
Points of View is designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. High school and undergraduate students can use Points of View as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills.
An Online Computer Library Center index of worldwide conference proceedings.
Online Computer Library Center catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat.
Reference Tools Databases
A comprehensive database of biographical information on nearly 300,000 notable people throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. The database also includes full-text articles from nearly 250 periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death years, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search path.
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries is the premier source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education. More than 35,000 librarians, faculty, and key decision makers rely on Choice magazine and ChoiceReviews.online for collection development and scholarly research.
CountryWatch provides a variety of facts on over 192 countries, from basic information such as statistics and important persons, to maps and currency converters, to encyclopedic resources on history and economy. This database is extremely valuable for the history major or any student researching the United States.
FACTS.com brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest and a live newsfeed from Reuters to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people from 1940 to the present. It also delivers maps, photographs, historic documents, and special overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1940.
FACTS.com brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest, Issues & Controversies, Today’s Science, World Almanac, and World Almanac Encyclopedia to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 60+ years.
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office).
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one search interface. Use this database to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals. Many items contain full-text and images.
This database is a user-friendly great place for consumers to start researching health topics. It provides full-text access to health related magazines, journals, pamphlets, newspapers, encyclopedias, videos, and even Web sites.
This collection contains full text current content from over 100 journals, which will help information professionals of many kinds to grow in their areas of expertise.
Learning Express Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons—students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You’ll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results. Click on a category to the right so that you can start on your path to success right now.
Contains descriptive information & critical reviews of commercially-available standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement & intelligence tests.
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.
A dictionary of the English language providing the meaning, history, and pronounciation of over half a million words, both present and past. Provides extensive background on the current and historical usage of words through over 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of English-language sources. The full text of all entries is searchable.
This database contains several online reference books on performing arts including The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. The collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works in a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database.
Points of View is designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. High school and undergraduate students can use Points of View as a guide to debate, developing arguments, writing position papers, and for development of critical thinking skills.
Polling the Nations contains the results of over 14,000 national and international surveys from Gallup Poll, Roper, and many other reputable polling organizations. Surveys contained in this database can reveal much about financial investments opinions, public policy, employee job satisfaction, money management, and consumer trends.
Ulrich’s is a bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription
What Do I Read Next? includes over 100,000 recommended titles, more than 58,000 plot summaries, and awards information from 562 awards. Search by genre, subject, author, title, and series. A monthly highlights page allows the user to see selections of award winners, upcoming titles, and titles that revolve around different subjects each month.
Contains the full text of more than 22,000 articles in Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia.
FACTS.com brings together complete content from the Facts On File World News Digest and a live newsfeed from Reuters to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people from 1940 to the present. It also delivers maps, photographs, historic documents, and special overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1940.
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia and four additional almanacs.
General Reference Websites
Annenberg Media’s multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home. All Annenberg Media videos exemplify excellent teaching.
Offers a complete view of the institutions, people, processes, roles, and philosophies in educational practice in the United States and throughout the world. Features biographies of influential educators; profiles of historic colleges and universities and of organizations active in the field; and an appendix of full text source documents, including education related legislation, international treaties, and testing methods.
Use this as a supplement to Mental Measurements Yearbook to find descriptions, reviews, and ordering information for thousands of psychological tests.
This 3-volume country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries. This updated and expanded edition gives users up-to-date coverage of reorganized educational systems and high-interest topics such as technological advances.
International
This is a highly useful site if you are looking for international comparative education data for developing countries. You can, for instance, easily call up and compare the literacy rates in one country with another.
This website for a program of the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences National Center for Education Statistics contains two helpful sections: international indicators and international surveys and assessments.
Another good site for international comparative education data.
This 3-volume country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries. This updated and expanded edition gives users up-to-date coverage of reorganized educational systems and high-interest topics such as technological advances.
Australia
Official site for Australia’s Department of Education.
Covers grading systems, higher education, technical and vocational education, teacher education, and school education.
Brazil
China
Official site for China’s Ministry of Education (MOE). The menu on the left has details on: Laws and regulations, planning and statistics, basic education, higher education, vocational education, international cooperation, and a list of Chinese higher education institutions.
Denmark
Cirius is a Danish agency “supporting internationalization of education and training in Denmark.” This link has a good overview of various aspects of the Danish education system with some nice charts and more detailed information. Click on “English” in the upper right for page translation.
Official Ministry of Education fact sheets. Includes: The education system, finances, basic school, youth education, higher education, and more.
France
Lenghty PDF document from the Ministere Education Nationale giving a good overview of the system and detailing education expenditure, personnel, length of schooling, priority education and more.
The Ministere site itself is only in French, so this may be the best document on French education in English you can find.
This site deals mostly with higher education institutions in France. There is some mention of teacher education and qualifications as well.
Germany
Hong Kong
India
Official Indian DOE Annual Report. Menu links to PDF sections on Administration, Policy, Elementary Education and more.
Gives basic overview of Indian Education System. Sections on: Administration and Funding, Primary and Secondary Education, Colleges and Universities, Education and Society,
Source: James Heitzman and Robert L. Worden, editors. India: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1995.
Israel
Japan
More detailed report of various aspects of the Japanese Education system: Statistics, curriculum, facilities, etc.
Official goverment site on education in Japan. Discusses elementary and secondary education, higher education, lifelong learning policy, and more.
Jordan
Good brief overview and discussion of the development of Jordan’s education system.
Note on the Source: This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army.
Brief overview of Jordan’s education system from the official government site.
Pacific Islands
PADDLE facilitates the sharing of best practice and experience amongst the fifteen Pacific countries of the Project. The focus of PADDLE is to provide access to all relevant education policy, planning and development material from the participating countries. Most of these documents have previously been unavailable in digital form.
Russia
Discusses Russian education since the fall of the Soviet Union. Seems to have been published in the 1990s, so more current information may be needed to supplement this discussion.
Source:
| Glenn E. Curtis, ed. Russia: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1996. |
Gives good brief overview of Russian education system, includes: Structure of education system, admissions to higher education, student life, and international cooperation and exchanges.
South Africa
United Kingdom
This document provides a nice succinct overview of the UK’s primary, secondary, and higher education levels. Also covers assessment, academic year, and a narrative of a typical day in a UK school.
More on the UK education system at this site sponsored by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. Gives structure of the education system, public examinations and qualifications, and also some historical background on the UK’s education system.
No Child Left Behind
Text of the seminal 1983 report A Nation at Risk.
Page of links from the U.S. Department of Education about Goals 2000.
Hyperlinked table of contents to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Philosophy and Theory
Former LMU professor’s extended analysis and commentary on many current trends of educational philosophy, including: Idealism, Realism, Neo-Thomism, Pragmatism, and Existentialism. Also a long section on Christian Theism which is clearly the author’s favored position.
This is a quick assessment of your opinions on a number of issues related to the philosophy of education. It indicates which philosophies you may have an affinity for and suggests a number of theorists to explore. Schools of thought include: Essentialism, Behaviorism, Progressivism, Existentialism, Perennialism, and Reconstructionism.
Constructivism
This is a concise, well-written exposition of constructivism beginning with an explanation of the concept and moving toward practical applications in the classroom. Includes critical perspectives. Be sure to check out the “Expert Interview” section for a video interview with educational theorist Jaqueline Grennon Brooks.
Existentialism
Realism
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Marzano
http://www.dianelauer.com/techinteg/simdif.html
http://classroom.leanderisd.org/webs/marzano/identifying_similarities_and_differences.htm
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/1simdiff.htm
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic24c.htm
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/2summarize.htm
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/templates/summarizing_notetaking.htm
http://www.dianelauer.com/techinteg/sumnote.html
http://www.arc.sbc.edu/notes.html
http://www.schools.manatee.k12.fl.us/3160MARZANO/3160marzano/summarize___note_taking.html
http://www.allkindsofminds.org/activity.aspx?id=12
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/3effortandrecognition.htm
http://web2thatworks.com/index.php?title=Reinforcing_Effort_and_Providing_Recognition
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Templates/effort_recognition.htm
http://www.nwrel.org/request/oct00/index.html
http://spearfish.k12.sd.us/west/Specials/Penny/Teacher%20Involve/overview.htm
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/4homework.htm
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/HelpingStudents/index.html
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualization/activities.html
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualization/design_principles.html
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/inspiration_templates/index.html
http://education.denniskunkel.com/index.php
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Templates/nonlinguisticrepresentations.htm
http://www.dianelauer.com/techinteg/nonling.html
http://www.co-operation.org/pages/overviewpaper.html
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/coopcollab/index.html
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/6cooperativelearning.htm
http://www.worksheetlibrary.com/teachingtips/cooperativelearningtips.html
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/7objectivesandfeedback.htm
http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/index.php
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/templates/objectives_feedback.htm
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr200.htm
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/8hypotheses.htm
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/templates/hypotheses.htm
http://classroom.leanderisd.org/webs/marzano/generating_and_testing_hypotheses.htm
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/index.html
http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/9advorganizers.htm
http://www.netnet.org/instructors/design/goalsobjectives/advance.htm
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/templates/advanceorganizers.htm
http://www.oir.uiuc.edu/Did/docs/QUESTION/quest1.htm
http://www.uab.edu/uasomume/cdm/questioning.htm
http://www.sedl.org/secac/rsn/quest.pdf
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/graphorg/
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/graphic_organizers.php
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2983
http://www.edhelper.com/teachers/graphic_organizers.htm
http://www.somers.k12.ny.us/intranet/skills/thinkmaps.html
http://www.graphicorganizers.com/downloads.htm
http://www.writesite.org/html/organize.html
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizers/printable/6293.html
Research and Statistics
This is a highly useful site if you are looking for international comparative education data for developing countries. You can, for instance, easily call up and compare the literacy rates in one country with another.
Another good site for international comparative education data.
Technology Tips
If you’re a visual learner and like to sketch out connections between ideas this may be useful to you. Cmap allows you to create and easily modify concept maps and share and snych with others users.
Download here
“Delicious Bookmarks is the official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service (formerly del.icio.us). It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access.”
Download here
This is another free mind/concept mapping program.
Download here
Zotero is free citation management software program. It is a Mozilla Firefox browser extension. This means you have have and use the Firefox browser (also a free download if you don’t have it on your home computer; it is installed on the computers in the LMU labs).
What this means is when you find an article, book, website, or whatever that you want to use as a source for a paper, class project, or whatever, you just have to click a little icon on the browser and the item will be added to Zotero. From Zotero, you can create folders, tag, sort, and create instant bibliographies of selected sources.
Download here and watch the how to use video.
Tutorials
Easily generate a citation in APA (or MLA and other styles) for articles in Ebsco databases.
Setting up a personal account in the Ebsco databases (for ERIC, CINAHL, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, and others) allows you to store articles and searches in a permanent folder.
This video tutorial discusses the basics of searching in ERIC.
This video tutorial goes over using the thesaurus in ERIC in more detail.
Looking for articles about the ISLLC Standards? Download this document for suggestions.
List of Caldecott, Newberry, Wilder and other award winning books
Note that Caldecott and Newberry are for award winning books. The library should have all of these (they may be checked out though). The Laura Ingalls Wilder award and many other awards are for authors or illustrators, not specific books.
How to access ebooks through the online catalog Piper.
Research Process: