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Subject Guide — Education  
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, & Handbooks
Education Statistics
School Law and Legislation
Directories
Educational Tests & Measures
Wilcox CRC
Finding Articles
Web Resources
Debra Beronja ,  CRC Librarian
Main Floor, Beeghly Hall
(330)941-3217, (campus only) x5348

Overview

Maag Library provides access to books, journals and databases which support educational philosophies, trends, research, and pedagogy at all levels.

The Wilcox CRC has materials and texts geared for student, classroom and school use. A wide variety of titles for Children, Young Adults and Teachers in Grades K-12 Instruction can be found at the Wilcox CRC located in the BCOE. In addition to the text, multimedia, software and testing collections, access to databases and other reference resources can be obtained through the Wilcox CRC as well as Maag Library.

 
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, & Handbooks

Use these resources for background information.

  • Encyclopedia of educational research Ref LB15 E48 1992
    Synthesizes research in a variety of areas of Education to give students, researchers and practitioners an overview of the current and future trends.
  • The encyclopedia of higher education Ref LB15 .E46 1992
    An overview of the scholarship relating to higher education including essays on the educational systems of more than 130 nations as well as thematic essays in several areas: societal influences; institutional structure; administration and finance; research, teaching, and learning; and essays from the perspective of the core disciplines in higher education.
  • The International encyclopedia of education Ref LB15 .I69 1994
    Overview of international scholarship on educational problems, theories, practices and institutions. Includes entries on the educational systems of various countries.
  • International higher education: an encyclopedia Ref LB15 .I59 1991
    In-depth essays on major themes with emphasis on a selected group of 51 countries and regions.
  • World education encyclopedia Ref LB15 .K79 1988
    Arranged by country, detailing educational systems with basic enrollment statistics. Some articles include glossary of terms (from the language of the country to English).

 
Education Statistics
 
School Law & Legislation
 
Directories

Schools, K-12
  • Patterson's American education Ref L901 .P3
    A directory of secondary and K-12 schools in the U.S. Arranged geographically (state, then city). Includes population and school enrollment data for the various cities listed.
Colleges and Universities
Occupational/Vocational Schools
  • Occupational education Ref L901 .O3 2005 32nd ed.
    Guide to institutions that provide instruction for technical and semi-professional occupations (supplement to the College Blue Book).
International
  • International handbook of universities Ref L900 .I58
    Arranged by country. Entries include basic academic structure, brief historical description, admission requirements and degrees granted.
  • World of learning Ref AS2 .W6 2005 (Ready Ref)
    A directory of universities, libraries, archives, research institutes, learned societies, museums, and art galleries world-wide.
 
Educational Tests & Measures
 
Finding Articles
Access to the following databases is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff or through the campus computer network.
  • Academic Search Premier
    Index, abstracts, and full-text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study. Includes or has links to full-text.
    On campus     Off campus
  • Dissertation Abstracts
    Index to doctoral dissertations and master's theses from North America and Europe. Includes or has links to full text.
    On campus     Off campus
  • Education Abstracts
    An electronic version of the printed Education Index. Author, title, and subject index to over 400 educational periodicals, yearbooks, and book series since 1983.
    On and off campus access
  • ERIC (1966-present)
    Provides citations to and abstracts of journal articles from the CIJE (Current Index to Journals in Education) as well as unpublished reports, papers and other monographs from RIE (Resources in Education). The unpublished materials (denoted by accession numbers beginning with ED) are generally available on microfiche in the Microfilm Center, Lower Level.
    On and off campus access
    Eric Document Resources (help guide for finding ERIC documents)
  • Professional Development Collection [Educators]
    Index, abstracts, and full text for professional educators.
    On campus     Off campus
  • PsycINFO (1967-present)
    The electronic version of Psychological Abstracts, providing citations to and abstracts of journal articles, dissertations and book chapters on psychology and related fields since 1967.
    (Or for historical references, search PsycINFO Historical 1887-1966).
    On and off campus access
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI)
    ISI Citation Databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. It is indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
    On campus     Off campus
  • SocINDEX
    SocINDEX offers index, abstracts, and full text for publications in sociology and all its subdisciplines.
    On campus     Off campus
 
Web Resources