A Guide to Education Resources
The TexShare databases offer several resources for those interested in the field of education. This pathfinder is designed to answer some common questions about education that can be answered using the TexShare Databases as well as provide links to some free online resources dealing with education.
EXAMPLES
Where can I find scholarly articles from the education field?
Academic Search Premier is your one-stop shop for articles from a variety of fields of study. For research in education, this database provides access to related publications such as Teaching PreK-8, Teaching and Teacher Education, Education Digest, Education Week, Educational Leadership, and many more. A basic search for the term "curriculum" in the default fields of the database results in hundreds of hits. Searches within Academic Search Premier can be narrowed by academic journals, magazines, newspapers, and books. You can also refine your search by using the subject terms and author-supplied keywords.
My library doesn't own a particular book about education/teaching. Where can I find it?
You can gain access to thousands of ebooks through NetLibrary, a digital library containing the full text of books from major publishers. You can search by author, title, keyword, or full text to find books that fit your needs. Here are a few examples of ebooks available through NetLibrary that deal with education:
- Language, Culture, and Teaching by Sonia Nieto, 2002
- Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement by Rober J. Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane E. Pollock, 2001
- Teachers and Schooling Making a Difference: Productive Pedagogies, Assessment and Performance by Debra Hayes, 2006
Additional Internet Resources
EduHound
http://www.eduhound.com/
Designed for educators, students, and teachers, EduHound.com is an educational directory with built-in resource links.
Awesome Library
http://awesomelibrary.org/
Awesome Library is another directory of educational materials on the web. Organizational headings include Social Studies, Special Ed, Family, Reference, and Technology. Teachers, students, teenagers, parents, librarians, and college students can all make use of this site.
US Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov
The For Teachers page provides teaching resources, lesson ideas, answers to legal questions, and more.
The Education Statistics Quarterly
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/quarterly/
This is your one-stop shop for statistics gathered by the National Center for Education Statistics. You can also find aricles, comprehensive overviews, and summaries of NCES publications.
Education World
hhttp://www.educationworld.com/
Dubbed "The Educator's Best Friend", Education World provides access to lesson plans as well as articles about technology, school issues, and other professional development topics. This is an ideal resource for teachers.
Librarians? Internet Index
http://lii.org/search/file/edlib
This is an online directory organized by librarians. It divides information about education into subject headings and then provides links to websites.
This page was written by Sandra Littletree in spring 2006.
INF 382S: Library Instruction and Information Literacy, taught by Dr. Loriene Roy
School of Information,
The University of Texas at Austin