Doing research in education will require you to gather information from possibly many resources. Here at the Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library there is much useful information that is available in many different locations in the library and also in many different formats. THis document will hopefully point you in the right direction in locating the right materials for your educational research project.

SIRSI ILINK CATALOG

A database of over 1 billion items of materials from 10,000 libraries representing 400 languages, such as: books, magazines,  films, slides, journals, manuscripts, maps, musical scores,  newspapers,  videocassettes,  audio-cassettes, computer data files, and computer programs,  that have been cataloged by OCLC members worldwide.  The records cover items from 1000 BC to the present, and this database is updated daily. This is a super catalog of materials from libraries all over the world.

DIRECTORIES

EDUCATION DIRECTORIES ON THE INTERNET

ENCYCLOPEDIES AND DICTIONARIES

Use encyclopedias as a starting point for research. Encyclopedias give short descriptive articles on a topic, plus references that can be used to build a research paper.

R 370.3 En110	The Encyclopedia of Education. The articles deal with the history, theory, research and philosophy of education.
R 370.97303 Un3e	Encyclopedia of American Education. Covers every broad area of education: administration, pedagogy, history, reform, minority education and women’s education.
R 370.3 W89M2	World Education Encyclopedia. Designed as a descriptive survey of the national educational systems of the world.
R 370.78 En1a6	Encyclopedia of Educational Research. This is the 6th edition which was published in 1992. Useful as a starting point for research on education related topic. Contains long articles on each topic. The 7th edition is on order.
R 372.2103 En1	Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education. This one volume set is a reference work about the education and care of young children from birth to eight years old. Divided into 6 major topic chapters: (1) Introduction, Historical & Philosophical Roots of Early Childhood Practice, (2) Sociocultural, Political, and Economic Contexts of Child Care and Early Education, (4) Perspectives on Children (5) Early Childhood Curricula and Programs (6) Perspectives on Educators.
R 371.2 En1	Encyclopedia of School Administration and Supervision. Contains many articles on topics relating to school administration, such as curriculum issues, instructional methods, legal concepts, administrative positions, processes and task areas, administrative theory and research, student problems, issues and programs.
R 371.9 En1	Encyclopedia of Special Education. Contains articles on many aspects of special education, such as biographies of key people in the field, educational and psychological tests, interventions and service delivery techniques, conditions that require special education services, major court cases and more.
R 370.3 In8h2	International Encyclopedia of Education. 2nd ed. Published in 1995, this 12 volume set contains articles on many aspects of education from an international perspective, plus articles on education in each country. Contains an overview of the international theories, problems, and practices in education.
R 372.403 L71	The Literacy Dictionary Contains short definitions of terms used in the study of literacy.
R 370.7 En1	The Encyclopedia of Educational Information This work is more like a directory than an encyclopedia, and it contains names addresses telephone numbers and brief summaries of: state and national education associations, national and state government education agencies, national and state trade shows and conferences. It also has education databases and on-line services, education directories, education research centers, resources for grants, professional resources, education magazines and journals, education publishers and suppliers.
R 150.287 C73h	Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment This work contains chapters on the different kinds of ways that people are assessed through psychological testing, such as: intellectual ability, neuropsychology, personality, integrity interests, and behavioral .
R 155.4 H19d5	Handbook of Child Psychology This work outlines the current state of the field of developmental psychology.
R 370.3 L55L	Learning Theories A to Z Contains "reference information on learning theories about K-12 education, higher education, and industry education and training environments."
NA R 371.82997 H13n	Native American Education: A Reference Handbook This work contains the history of Native American education, the law and Native American education, Issues in Native American Education, such as: assimilation vs multiculturalism, traditional tribal education, academic failure and dropout rates of Native Americans, and much more.
R 374 En1d	Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning Distributed education has come upon us recently. Distributed education is a concern of mainstream public and private education, from elementary school to graduate study and adult continuing education. The topics covered in this volume "historical predecessors of distributed education as we know it today to projections into the future, from classroom modifications to sophisticated technological devices, from infrastructure ethics, from teaching skills to theories of pedagogy." Contains entries on electronic journals, intellectual property, online learning environments, delivery systems and more."
R 371.829 J13a	African American Education: A Reference Handbook This book gives a thorough introduction to the history and current problems in African American education.
R 371.710973 P51h	Health-Related Disorders in Children and Adolescents This book is published by the American Psychological Association, and it is intended to be used as a guide to help educators who "collaborate with medical professionals." It gives thorough information on a wide range of physical and and some psychological disorders that can occur in children.
R 371.71 ED8K	The Educator's Guide to Medical Issues in the Classroom This book is intended to be a help to educators who need to collaborate with medical professionals. It is to "prepare educators to work with professionals in the medical community for the benefit of their students."
R 371.2 H19FK	Handbook of Research on School Supervision This is a scholarly book that deals with all aspects of school supervision, such as the psychology of supervision, the politics of supervision, supervision in special education, supervision in early childhood education, supervision in elementary schools, supervision in middle schools, supervision in secondary schools, and future directions for school supervision.
R 305.231 G13k	The Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence This book is designed to be a "comprehensive reference work addressed to those interested in human development from birth through adolescence, including students of child development, teachers, health care providers, child psychologists, family counselors, education professionals, academics, and parents."
R 371.71 ED8K	Child Development This book is intended to be a help to educators who need to collaborate with medical professionals. It is to "prepare educators to work with professionals in the medical community for the benefit of their students."
R 305.235 En1	Encyclopedia of Adolescence This book covers such topics as: academic achievement, delinquency, drug use, eating disorders, hormones and behavior in adolescence, identity crisis, and more.
R 155.82 EN1JK	Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology This book, published by Sage Publications in 2006, contains articles that cover concepts, terms that deal with multicultural psychology. There are term about ethnic groups, cultural concerns, indigenous concerns, measurement of acculturation, ethnic identity and racial prejudice, professional organizations, sociological issues, and treatment.

SOURCES OF EDUCATION STATISTICS

The State of Oklahoma also publishes statistics on education in Oklahoma:
 
 

E 2500.3 P964s	Profiles. Oklahoma Educational Indicators Program. This report, published by the Office of Accountability, contains data presented by the Oklahoma Educational Indicators program, which was created in 1989 by the Oklahoma School Testing Act. The OEIP is supposed to implement a system of performance measures by which the school districts in Oklahoma could be assessed. A second function of the OEIP is to report information on graduation rates, dropout rates, pupil-teacher ratios, in the context of socioeconomic status and the finances of school districts. The reports come out every year, and there are three parts of the report: (1) The State Report, which contains data and statistics for the state as a whole for the major categories of measurement; (2) The District Report, which contains a separate page for each of the 541 school districts in the State of Oklahoma; and (3) The School Report Card, which will have data from each school. Also available on the Internet at: http://www.schoolreportcard.org/reports.htm
Internet	Oklahoma School Performance Review http://www.schoolreportcard.org/ospr/ "The Oklahoma Legislature created the Oklahoma School Performance Review (OSPR) program in 2001. The program was designed to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the budget and operations of school district and to improve the management and finances of individual school districts. It is the intent of the Legislature that any cost savings that is directly attributable to implementation of performance review recommendations be spent by the school district for classroom expenses. OSPR completed and released the report of its first school performance review in October 2003. The purposes of these reviews are to develop recommendations regarding (1) containing costs, (2) improving management strategies, (3) promoting better education for Oklahoma children and (4) to offer commendations when notable practices are identified. The review also identifies opportunities to increase revenues. Exemplary programs that can be replicated are also identified and will be made available to all districts in the state.

EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS ON THE INTERNET

OTHER EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET

EDUCATION LAW SOURCES

GRANTS RESOURCES

OTHER EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

R 371.71 ED8K	Mental Measurements Yearbook Published by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements. It is designed to assist test users in education, psychology and industry to choose tests that meet their needs from among the many tests available. It contains descriptive listings, references, and critical reviews of commercially published tests in English. The sixteenth edition was published in 2005, and contains tests that are new or that have been significantly revised since the publication of the fifteenth edition in 2003. The fifteenth edition contains tests that were new in 2003 or had been significantly revised since the publication of the fourteenth edition in 2001 and so on back to the first yearbook, which was published in the 1930's. The older editions contain information on tests that have not been revised recently, and information on older versions of tests. To find out more about the Mental Measurements Yearbook, go to the Mental Measurements Yearbook Page, or go to the Buros Institute page at: http://www.unl.edu/buros/, and click on Test Reviews online. For more information about the Mental Measurements Yearbook, go to this website: http://www.se.edu/lib.mmyb8.htm
R 016.37126 B93T	Tests in Print Published by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements. The latest edition is the seventh, which was published in 2006. It contains "descriptive listings commercially published tests. The Tests in Print, edition seven, "also serves as a comprehensive index to all editions of the Mental Measurements Yearbook series (MMY) published to date." For each test listed, the purpose of the test in given, population test is for, publication dates, scores of the test, how the test is administered, price data, time the test takes, authors of the test, publisher of the test, and cross references to either earlier editions of Tests in Print or Mental Measurements Yearbooks that more information about the test can be found.
R 362.829264 F32A	Assessment of Family Violence: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners Published by the American Psychological Association, this book contains descriptions and reviews of assessment instruments in the field of family violence.
R 150.287 En1f	Encyclopedia of Psychological Assessment This book contains articles on the theory and methodology of psychological assessment, methods, tests, and equipment, personality, intelligence, clinical and health, educational, and child assessment, work and organizations and environmental assessment.
R 150.287 T28	Test Critiques This is a series of books that contain critiques of psychological tests. The last book in this series was published in 1994, so it is getting out of date.
R 150.287 T28M	Tests The subtitle says that this is "a comprehensive reference for assessments in psychology, education and business." For each test given, it contains the date published and the publisher, the population the test is for, the purpose of the test, a description of the test, the format of the test which includes how long the test takes, the scoring and the cost of the test.
R 150.287 C73H	Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological ASsessment This scholarly work contains many interesting chapters on assessment, such as: intellectual ability, neuropsychology, personality, integrity interests, and behavioral . There are chapters on the relationships between intelligence and achievement tests, the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for children and adults, measures of infant and early childhood development, the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery-Children's Revision, Language Assessment in Children, the Comprehensive Assessment of Child and Adolescent Memory, the Attention Battery for Children. Volume Two covers personality assessment, and Volume 3 covers behavioral assessment, while volume four covers industrial and organizational assessment.
online	ETS TestLink This is a part of the Educational Testing Service website. "The Test Collection at ETS is a library of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices that makes information on standardized tests and research instruments available to researchers, graduate students, and teachers. Collected from the early 1900s to the present, the Test Collection at ETS is the largest such compilation in the world. The tests in this collection were acquired from a variety of U.S. publishers and individual test authors. Foreign tests are also included in the collection, including some from Canada, Great Britain, and Australia." Click on the title above to access.
online	International Personality Item Pool "This IPIP Website is intended to provide rapid access to measures of individual differences, all in the public domain, to be developed conjointly among scientists worldwide. Later, the site may include raw data available for reanalysis; in addition, it should serve as a forum for the dissemination of psychometric ideas and research findings."
online	Finding Information About Psychological Tests This is a page of the American Psychological Association and it gives good information about where to find information about psychological tests.
Internet	Priority Academic Student Skills: A Core Curriculum for Our Children's Future (P.A.S.S.) Published by the Oklahoma State Department of Education. Replaces Learner Outcomes. Provides the basic skills and knowledge that all students should learn in the public schools in Oklahoma. Provides skills and knowledge by subject and then by grade level. Available online at: http://www.sde.state.ok.us/home/home01_test.html?http://www.sde.state.ok.us/publ/pass.html!
Internet	Certification Examinations for Oklahoma Educators CEOE) Study Guides The responsibility for these certification tests is the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation. At this site are the study guides for the Oklahoma General Education Test, Oklahoma Professional Teaching Examination, and the Oklahoma subject area tests. The address for the web site where you can get the study guides is at: http://www.ceoe.nesinc.com/CE_studyguide_opener.asp#subjectTests
On Reserve	Oklahoma State Textbook List This used to be called the Annual Textbook Requisition and it is a catalog of curriculum materials that have been selected by the State Textbook Committee for use in the Oklahoma public schools. It is used by school districts in Oklahoma to select textbooks. It contains the materials selected by topic and by grade level, and also ordering information.

EDUCATION JOURNALS

There are many magazines and journals published that are related to education. Some of these journals contains articles written for educators, but are not research content. Other journals and magazines contain helps for educators, ideas to help in teaching, or news items for educational associations. Doing educational research requires that you look at journals that contain results of research. Again there are many journals that contain results of research. How do you access the information in these journals? Well, some research education journals are located in the basement of this library, others are located in an online database, while others are located in neither location, but are located in other libraries.

Unlike books, the contents of journals are not available in the SE library catalog. So where are they located? They are located in magazine and journal indexes. Magazine and journal indexes assign a subject to each article in each journal indexed in the magazine and journal index. Until the 1990's most magazine and journal indexes were in paper, now they are almost all on the Internet. Some of these journal indexes on the Internet index popular magazines, other scholarly, while others are devoted to one subject area, NO Journal Index indexes every journal that is published, so they are selective.

HOW TO FIND RESEAECH ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

Step One: Look in a Journal Index

1. Where the Databases are located
These databases are all to be found on the SE Library's Electronic Resources Page at: http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm

2. What EBSCOHost and FirstSearch are
The word EBSCOHost or FirstSearch to the right of the database name in the table above indicates the name of the database vendor where you can find these databases. If you look at the list of links on the ELectronic Resources page, you will see the links organized by the type of database that they are. You will find EBSCOHost and FirstSearch under the listing of databases called Periodical Databases. When you go down the list, you will see at least two links for both EBSCOHOst and FirstSearch. The first link is for those that are on the SE campus. Click on that link, and you will be taken to the list of databases under EBSCOHost or FirstSearch. The second link is the off campus link. This link is necessary to use if you are off of the SE Campus. This link takes you to a page where you will be asked to type in a userid or authorization number, and a password. The userid or authorization number and password to gain access to EBSCOHost and FirstSearch is available at the SE Library Reference Desk, and also is on the proxy server.

3. How to narrow your search in these databases to just scholarly journals.
These periodical databases listed above index the content of both magazines and journals. When you do a search, then, you will get a list of article from both journals and magazines. How do you do a search for just research articles? Most of the databases listed above are able to limit your search by type of publication, so you will be able to limit your search to just articles from scholarly, peer-reviewed journals (ERIC, PsycARTICLES, PsychInfo, and PRofessional Development Collection in EBSCOHOst), or to just research articles (ERIC in FirstSearch). Limiting by this method will get rid of a lot of articles on your search results list that are from non-scholarly, magazines.

Step Two: Check to see if the article is available online Full-Text

Step Three: Check to see if the article is available online Full-Text in another database

Step Four: Check to see if the the SE Library has the journal in paper

Step Five: Use InterLibrary Loan to obtain the article from another college library that has the journal that you want

1. Obtain an Interlibrary loan form from the circulation desk or go to an online InterLibrary Loan form at: http://www.se.edu/lib/illjournalreq.htm for a journal article and http://www.se.edu/lib/illbookreq.htm for Interlibrary loaning a book. 2. Fill out the form, take note that those fields of the form that have an asterisk in front of them are required fields that are needed to send the information via e-mail. Click submit after filling out the form. 3. The process of receiving something from InterLibrary loan takes about 4 days to two weeks, so if InterLibrary Loans are needed,