Tutorials for Education Students
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.
Download this document for assistance in beginning your search for articles about the future of education. Future of Education Searching Guide
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.
Research Process:
There are a couple of different ways you can find articles about constructivism. Probably the best and easiest is to use one or a couple of the library’s databases. I would recommend either ERIC or ProQuest.
Log in to ERIC from the library’s homepage. www.library.lmunet.edu > Databases > Education > ERIC (or ProQuest).
You can do a simple keyword search for “constructivism” but this will likely get you a lot of different things. Instead of wading through this, try doing a subject search. In ERIC, subjects are called descriptors and the most apt descriptor for this would probably be:
DE Constructivism (Learning)
You can just copy and paste this into the search box. This should get you are 4,200 results and all of these will be about constructivism in some way. You can further narrow this down by adding more search terms. Maybe you want to find articles about constructivism for reading or mathematics, try these as keywords in the other search boxes.