Selected Resources for
EDUC 545—Inquiry & Action (LeaD)
July 11, 2006
Gail Egbers 535-8869 egbersgl@plu.edu
  TERMINOLOGY:
                                                                                 Subjects                                                    Process

                                                                                Special Education                                   Case Studies
                                                                                Reading                                                    Inquiry
                                                                                Music                                                        Action Research
                                                                                Physical Education                                 Classroom Research
                                                                                Mathematics                                            Qualitative Research
                                                                                Science                                                    Research Methodology


FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers.  Indexes relevant to your topics include:  

EBSCOhost (via PLU Library home page) A multi-disciplinary database that indexes roughly 4,500 journals, magazines, and newspapers with 3,600 titles in full text. Of those, nearly 2,600 titles are full text scholarly (peer reviewed) publications. This academic database provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas - including social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and education.

ERIC (EBSCO) Indexes and abstracts articles, books, theses, conference proceedings, and unpublished papers in education, 1966 to present.

ProQuest Search the full collection of journals, magazines and newspapers for information on a broad range of general reference subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. Covers almost 3,000 scholarly journals as well as popular magazines in all subject and interdisciplinary areas, including the arts and humanities.


PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS

Education Week:  Online via EBSCO and ProQuest
Educational Leadership:  L11.E443
Phi Delta Kappan:  LJ121.P4 and online

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:  Periodicals are arranged according to the Library of Congress classification system.  Use Journals at PLU to identify the call number of the journal you need.  Current issues of journals are shelved on the first floor.  Older issues (bound volumes and microfilm) are interfiled with the books in the main collection on the second and third floors. Journals at PLU will also help you locate full-text journals online.



REFERENCE MATERIALS

Encyclopedia of education (ref. LB15.E47 2003)
Encyclopedia of education and human development (REF LB15.E473 2005)
Greenwood dictionary of education (REF LB15.G68 2003)
World education encyclopedia: a survey of educational systems worldwide  (ref. LB15.W87 2002)


INTERNET:  The Internet is an attractive source of information but it does not have the best information for all situations.   Use the Internet only for supplemental information.  Read the handout "Evaluating Information from the Internet” (http://www.plu.edu/~egbersgl/evalinternet.html) Here are some good choices:

Action Research (http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc/act_res.html)
American Federation of Teachers (http://www.aft.org/)
Classroom Action Research (http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/sod/car/carhomepage.html)
Classroom Research (http://www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/resources/acl/c1.html)
National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (http://www.ncate.org)
NEA: ( http://www.nea.org/index.html )
Qualitative Research (http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/pract_res.html)


BEYOND PLU
PLU's library may not own all of the materials you want to use.  You may either order them from Interlibrary Loan or go to a local library personally.  We are part of a consortium of libraries that includes:  Northwest University, St. Martin's University, University of Puget Sound, Seattle Pacific University, and Seattle University. You may use your PLU ID card to check out materials from these libraries.  If you wish to order from Interlibrary Loan, be sure to allow sufficient time for the materials to arrive.
 
If you have questions while doing library research, ask for help at the reference desk come see me.  For summer my office hours are Tuesdays 3:00-5:00.





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