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EDC240: How Do We Know Students Are Learning?
Spring 2008 - T. Laughner
reference contact: David Podboy x2913
, IM: davidpodboy

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SELECTING A TOPIC

Background Information
(Locate these sources in the Reference Room, Neilson Library)

Reference Source : General Reference Call Number
Encyclopedia of Education ref LB15 E47 2003
Historical Dictionary of American Education ref LB15 H57 1999
Encyclopedia of Educational Research ref LB15 .E48 1992

Reference Source : Subject Reference Call Number
Encyclopedia of Special Education ref LC4007 E53 2007
Early Childhood Education ref LB1139.23 .E272 2007
Praeger Handbook of Latino Education in the U.S. ref LC2669 .P73 2007
Gender and Education: An Encyclopedia ref LC213 .G425 2007
Encyclopedia of School Psychology ref LB1027.55 .E523 2005
Praeger Handbook of American High Schools
ref LA222 .P73 2007
Handbook of Urban Education ref LC5131 P7 2006
Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education ref LC1099.3 H35 2004

Reference Source : Assessment Reference Call Number
Finding Tests & Measures online guide
Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration ref LB2805 .E527 2006
The Assessment Debate: A Reference Handbook ref LB3051 .S66 2001
Handbook of Tests and Measurement in Education and the Social Sciences ref LB3051 .L4543 2000
Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques ref HQ728 .T68 2001
Educational Research, Methodology, and Measurement: An International Handbook ref LB1028 .E3184 1997

RESEARCHING THE TOPIC

Find Books

Five College Library Catalog - Search for books owned by the Five Colleges

WorldCat - Search for books outside of the Five Colleges (request through Interlibrary Loan)

Education Articles and Documents

ERIC via EBSCO 1966+

Education Abstracts 1983+

Mental Measurements Yearbook

Finding Tests & Measures

Related Articles

Academic Search Premier 1965+

PsycINFO 1887+

Statistics

Reference Source : Reference Call Number
Digest of Education Statistics ref L11 D48 2006
online 1995-2006
US Docs HE 5.98 1975-2005
The Condition of Education ref L112 N337a 2006
online 1995-2007
Education Statistics of the United States

ref LA201 E38 2003
online 2003

Education Links

U.S. Department of Education

National Center for Education Statistics

Education Week on the Web

CITING SOURCES

Evaluating and Citing Sources

Resource Website
Documentation Guidelines: Citing Sources Within Your Paper (Duke University) Click on appropriate link to see citation examples.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed. ref BF 76.7 .P83 2001
APA Style Guide to Electronic References online
Style Manuals & Citation Guides Smith College Libraries' web page with links

RefWorks
Bibliographic software designed to help researchers gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as to generate citations and bibliographies.

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