LibGuides: Education: Research Guide

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ERIC.ED.GOV This link opens in a new window Alternate Name(s): Education Resources Information Center Platform: eric.ed.gov ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, contains more than 1.7 million records and links to more than 400,000 full-text articles and documents dating from 1966 to the present. Provided by the Institute of Education Sciences, this version of ERIC is freely available to everyone.
ERIC (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. Contains more than 1.3 millions records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
Education Source This link opens in a new window Platform: EBSCOhost Education Source is designed to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers. The collection provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, citations for over 4 million articles including book reviews and over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests. Coverage in Education Source spans all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and also includes educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
Education Database (1988-Current) This link opens in a new window Platform: ProQuest | Subset of ProQuest Central Education Database supports the study and application of education across all levels of education, including early childhood education, primary and secondary education, and higher education. The database supports global study and research, including thousands of full-text journals, dissertations and other relevant sources.

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Business Source Elite This link opens in a new window Alternate Link: Business Source Elite (EBSCO Classic Interface Platform:EBSCOhost | Provided by the NJ State Library This database provides full-text coverage of top business, management and economics journals and periodicals. These valuable publications cover topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales and more.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Platform: Google Scholar Google Scholar is Google's attempt to index the scholarly literature that can be found on the web. It links to freely available articles on publisher websites, author websites, institutional repositories, and pre-print servers, as well as reports, online books, and other scholarly material online. In some ways it can be easier to search than subscription databases, in that it is better able to process a natural language search. Because it searches so much, and because there are very few filters included, it can also be more difficult to sort through the results. *Be sure to set up the Library Links to Centenary's full text subscriptions.
HeinOnline Academic This link opens in a new window Platform: HeinOnline  User Guide HeinOnline is a premier online database containing more than 178 million pages and 270,000 titles of historical and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges an important research gap by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 2,700 law-related periodicals. In addition to its vast collection of academic journals, HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Platform: JSTOR JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources related to Arts, Humanities, and Sciences. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform. The JSTOR Understanding Series: Linking Original Works to ScholarshipJSTOR Text Analyzer: Use a Document to Search for Similar DocumentsOrganize your Research with JSTOR WorkspaceInterview Archive: King in the Wilderness - Oral history of the last years of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.JSTOR Daily
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Alternate Name(s): Formerly called LexisNexis Academic Platform: Nexis Uni Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. The legal component also includes federal and state case law, statutes, secondary sources such as law reviews, and state legal materials. Company Profiles provide access to company-specific information, including bankruptcy reports and executive compensation information.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window Platform: ProQuest  User Guide Covering more than 160 subject areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. This award-winning resource features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window Platform: ProQuest The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT) ™ database is the world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world, offering over 5 million citations and 3 million full-text works from thousands of universities.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window Alternate Name(s): APA PsycARTICLES Platform: ProQuest PsycARTICLES®, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains more than 153,000 articles from nearly 80 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window Platform: EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers.
Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window Platform: EBSCOhost | Provided by the NJ State Library Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators. Public access version is available at http://www.teacherreference.com/.

Scholarly Journals

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Library of Congress Classification

When searching for a resource in the library, you can use a Library of Congress Classification Number to search the catalog, to find the exact location of an item and to find more items that have similar content.

Adult Education   LC5201-6660.4
Curricula   LB2361-2365
Education   LB5-45
Education of Women   LC1401-2572
Elementary Education   LB1555-1602
Higher Education   LB2300-2430
Secondary Education LB1603-1696.6
Special Education   LC3950-4806.5
Teaching/Teachers   LB1705-2286,
   LB1025-1050.75

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EBOOKS

The Aspiring Principal: 50 Critical Questions for New and Future School Leaders

"School leadership expert Baruti Kafele presents reflective questions aimed at assisting both new and aspiring school leaders as they work to become effective school leaders and consider making a leap to a leadership position."

Leadership for School Improvement

"This book is rich in research and literature about school improvement, school effectiveness, and school reform policy and implementation and thus holds significance for educational practitioners, scholars, and policy makers at all levels."

All Learning Is Social and Emotional

"If you teach kids rather than standards, and if you want all kids to get what they need to thrive, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Dominique Smith offer a solution: a comprehensive, five-part model of SEL that's easy to integrate into everyday content instruction, no matter what subject or grade level you teach."

Is My School a Better School Because I Lead It?

" In this book, Kafele offers those seeking to improve the quality of instruction in their institutions hard-won wisdom on such critical issues as ensuring an optimal culture and climate, engaging in parent and community outreach, confirming emergency preparedness, rallying staff, and much more."

Action Learning and Action Research

"This book, written by internationally renowned experts, is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the main genres and approaches of AL/AR."

Broadening Participation in STEM: Effective Methods, Practices, and Programs

"U.S. students exit undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs at alarming rates - this is especially true for minorities. This book provides faculty, administrators, and diversity professionals with a guide that can be used to develop programs designed to address specific student success and inclusion goals in STEM programs."

Teaching Outside the Box: Beyond the Deficit Driven School Reforms

"The book carefully analyzes the organic evolution of educators' social constructs that regenerated inequities to reveal the road map for rebuilding genuinely inclusive and equitable public school systems that serve the interests of students and society."

Committing to the Culture: How Leaders can create and sustain positive schools

"Leaders will gain profound insight into how to create meaningful change, with the goal not just to'transform'their school but also to get all members of the school community to commit to culture change—and make sure that change sticks."

Building Trauma-sensitive Schools: Your Guide to Creating Safe, Supportive Learning Environments for All Students

"In the United States, at least one in four youth experiences trauma severe enough to negatively affect their school success.• Give hope and help to these students with this reader-friendly how-to guide, your springboard for building responsive, trauma-sensitive preK–12 schools."

What Makes a Star Teacher: 7 Dispositions That Support Student Learning

"The book is grounded in studies conducted and ideas developed over a half-century by educational theorist Martin Haberman, whose models are used in hundreds of school districts across the United States. Full of insightful authentic examples, practical and ready-to-use strategies, and numerous suggested resources."

Leading High-Performance School Systems: Lessons from the World's Best

In this book, "Marc Tucker, a leading expert on top-performing school systems with more than 30 years of experience studying the global economy and education systems worldwide, details how top-performing school systems have met head-on the challenges facing school leaders today."

Theory and Method in Higher Education Research

This volume of Theory and Method in Higher Education Research contains analyses and discussions of, amongst others, topic modelling, geometric data analysis, creativity and playfulness, longitudinal network analysis, grounded theory methods and autonetnography.

Argumentation Strategies in the Classroom

Based on first-hand experience and extensive research, this volume guides the reader through argumentation with the focus placed on the relationship between this teaching method and effective learning and the need to investigate the role of teachers in encouraging argumentation in the classroom.

Hacking Education in a Digital Age

Those who seek to question the nature of teaching and learning and who seek to develop a richer theoretical vocabulary will benefit from the insightful and rich collection of essays presented in this collection. In this regard, the collection offers something for all who might wish to rethink the fundamental dynamics of education or, as Morpheus asks of Neo in The Matrix, bend the rules of conventional ways of knowing and being.

Doing Poorly on Purpose

There is no such thing as a “classic underachiever.” Students (and their reasons for underachieving) are influenced by a wide range of factors, including self-image, self-concept, social-emotional relationships, and the amount of dignity teachers afford their students. Helping “smart” students achieve when they don't want to is not an easy task, but you can reengage and inspire students using Delisle's insights and practical advice on these topics...

What We Know about Grading: What Works, What Doesn't, and What's Next

"A review of 100-plus years of grading research, each chapter addresses a different area of grading research and describes how the major findings in that area might be leveraged to improve grading policy and practice."

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BOOKS IN PRINT

How the Other Half Learns: equality, excellence, and the battle over school choice

"An inside look at America's most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questions around public education and school choice"

These 6 Things: How to focus your teaching on what matters most

These 6 Things is all about streamlining your practice so that you're teaching smarter, not harder, and kids are learning, doing, and flourishing in ELA and content-area classrooms

You Can't Fire the Bad Ones!: and 18 other myths about teachers, teachers' unions, and public education

"This book flips the script on enduring and popular myths about teachers, teachers unions, and education that inform policy discussions and choices."

How Schools Work: an inside account of failure and success from one of the nation's longest-serving secretaries of education

Examines some of the problems that plague the American public school system, identifies solutions that have worked in the past, and celebrates the hero teachers, staffers, and adminstrators the author met as the Obama Secretary of Education.

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