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Indexes

General

 Subject

AC Access OnlyEducation Index Retrospective
A database covering the literature of education from 1929 - 1983. This is a WilsonWeb product and can be used in conjunction with WilsonWeb OMNIFILE.

AC Access OnlyERIC (access via CSA)
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.

NOTE: To locate Periodicals in Abell Library, search using the "Periodical Title" field in the online catalog.
Check the record(s) to determine Location.

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E-Sources

   Journals

    AC Access OnlyJSTOR
    is an archive of scholarly journals, including many education journals.  Current issues are not available through JSTOR; its role is an archive, with new holdings added each year.

    AC Access Only SpringerLink Journals provides electronic access to the complete contents of a vast and growing collection of SpringerLink journals in subjects including education (formerly Kluwer Journals).

    AC Access Only Wiley Journals Search in peer-reviewed education journals and access full-text articles.

   Reference Works

    AC Access Only ICPSR is the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. It provides social science data and resources for researchers.

     

    K-12 Resources

    Restricted AccessAtomic Learning Atomic Learning provides web-based software training and curriculum resources for more than 100 applications that students and educators use daily. Atomic Learning focuses on answering common questions people have when learning popular software packages. Thousands of short, easy-to-understand tutorial movies and a library of curriculum resources are provided for integral use as part of a professional development program, or as a valuable curriculum supplement, and an anytime/anywhere software training resource. *

    * This resource is available to the Department of Education faculty and students. Please contact Dr. John White for the necessary information to login and use this resource.

    AC Access OnlyRoger Taylor Curriculum Guides Dr. T. Roger Taylor, in his 35 years as a classroom teacher, administrator, professor and internationally-known educational consultant, has authored/co-authored over 5000 integrated, interdisciplinary thematic curriculum units. The units are written based on the AHA (Analyzing Human Activities) model created by Dr. Taylor.

 Books

    AC Access Only netLibraryProvided by TexSharecollection of full-text electronic books (ebooks) includes a wide variety of subject content from both popular and scholarly texts. Users can search across the entire eBook collection for authors, titles, or keywords, and they can search within books for keywords and phrases. Users may read or browse through ebooks for an unlimited amount of time. A title may be unavailable temporarily when all NetLibrary copies are in use by other patrons.

    You are allowed to print one page at a time using your Web browser's print function or the print function on the Adobe Acrobat toolbar. Printing the entire eContent item violates copyright laws and precautions are taken to protect those copyright laws.

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About the Catalog

Search in Abell Library's Catalog
  Search for books, journal titles, and other resources in our online catalog.

Some subject headings used for this discipline are listed below. For additional headings, refer to the Library of Congress Subject Headings volumes located behind the Reference Desk.

  • Curriculum planning
  • Multicultural education
  • Public schools--United States
  • Secondary education

Internet Sites

  • Certification Requirements in 50 States The University of Kentucky's College of Education provides a site to track teacher certification.

  • EducationWeek on the Web Read the latest news on important issues in American education.

  • Educator's Reference Desk provides links to over 3,000 resources on a variety of educational issues, more than 2000 unique lesson plans, and an archive of over 200 responses to popular questions on the practice, theory, and research of education. The site also provides separate links to search in the Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) and in ERIC.

  • GEM, the Gateway to Educational Materials provides access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

  • National Center for Education Statistics  Access to data collected by the National Center for Educational Statisics

  • Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

  • is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

  • Children's Literature Web Guide: Internet Resources for Children and Young Adults is by David K. Brown of the Doucette Library of Teaching Resources of the University of Calgary. One of the links on this site is to on-line children's stories.

  • World Wide Web Virtual Library: Education

About the Department

Austin Teacher Program/Education Department

   Citing Sources

    Refer to the following book on Reserve:
    • Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition (BF76.7 .P83 2001)

    or click on Style Manuals to locate guidelines for using correct APA citation format.


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