Child Development Resources at the Henry G. Bennett Memorial Library

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.

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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.

The topic of Child Development spans across many disciplines. The encyclopedias below will be grouped by discipline.

Education

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.
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 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 371.2 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 370.3 En1f	Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development This encyclopedia contains divides the topic into seven areas: constructs of learning, philosophical, social, and political issues in education, levels in educational practice, physical, motor, and cognitive domains, educational issues concerning diverse populations, people and organizations
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."

Psychology

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."
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."
153.103 L47B 2nd ed	Learning and Memory This book is a part of the Macmillan Psychology Reference Series, and the first edition was called The Encyclopedia of Memory and Learning, published in 1992. It contains articles on all aspects of learning and memory, including: development of memory in children, drugs and memory, reinforcement or reward in learning, early experience and learning, imprinting, memory in infancy, operant behavior, phobias, sex differences in learning, stress and memory, and working memory.
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.
R 158 EN1S	Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology This book is an "authoritative publication that reviews and evaluates the numerous applications of professional psychology." This book "is a comprehensive and authoritative study covering the field of applied psychology." It has over 300 longer scholarly articles that cover such topics as: acculturation, achievement tests, attitudes, Autism and Asperger's Syndrome, cheating in academics, child custody, child development and culture, child testimony, emotion, students with emotional and behavioral problems, family and culture, gender and education, learning, motives and goals, personal space, play, development of prosocial behavior, stress, and employment of youth.
R 370.1503 E63	Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology This new encyclopedia contains articles on childhood from different disciplines of anthropology, psychology, sociology as well as history. Contains articles on important thinkers "who have understood the centrality of childhood", thoeries on play, and the experience of play in children, proper notions of child rearing, childhood education, and other articles

Sociology

R 362.7603 C54e	The Encyclopedia of Child Abuse This book contains many shorter articles on topics dealing with all aspects of child abuse.
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 305.231 C43S	Child Development This book is a part of the Macmillan Psychology Reference Series, and it contains articles "about every facet of child development, ranging from adoption and day care to welfare programs and video games."
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 306.803 En1	Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family This book "is a basic reference source written with the needs of a number of types of readers in mind." It covers such topics as: adolescent sexuality, child care, child abuse and neglect, child custody, children's rights, child support, conflict, family gender roles, personality development, missing children, only child, suicide and stress.
R 305.23 En1f	Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society This encyclopedia contains articles on childhood from different disciplines of anthropology, psychology, sociology as well as history. Contains articles on important thinkers "who have understood the centrality of childhood", thoeries on play, and the experience of play in children, proper notions of child rearing, childhood education, and other articles
R 305.230973 G44f	Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia This encyclopedia "examines American girls' histories and cultures over more than 400 years or our nation's past. In delves into "many aspects of a diverse population of girls of different races, classes, genders, religions, regions, ethnicities, ages, abilities, and sexual orientations."

Anthropology

R 306 En1

Encyclopedia of World Cultures This great encyclopedia give information on all the cultural groups in the world. For each culture covered, it gives the culture location, population, language spoken, history and cultural relations, settlements, economy, trade, kinship, marriage and family, social and political organization, religion.

Religion

Medical Aspects of Child Development

TEST ASSESSMENT 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.
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 intellegence and achievement tests, the Wechsler Intellegence 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.
R 155.283 M62m2	MCMI-III: Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III: Manual This book tells about the MCMI-I and II and then discusses various types of validity: theoritical-substantive, internal-structural, external-criterion. It then discusses administration and scoring, interpreation, and applications and future directions of the MCMI-III.
R 155.283 M66b	MMPI-2: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2: Manual for Administration, Scoring, and Interpretation This book outlines the origin and development of the MMPI-1 and MMPI-2, and the qualifications for use; administering, scoring, and profiling the MMPI-2, and interpretation of the MMPI-2, and a lsit of refernces, plus T-Score tables, reliability data, sale intercorrelations, and other tables.
R 155.284 R74r2	Rotter Incomplete Sentences Blank Manual THis book gives information on what the sentence completion method is, how to administer and score the RISB, the reliability, validity and normative data for the RISB, clinical use and interpretation and scoring manuals of the RISB.

MAGAZINES, JOURNALS, NEWSPAPERS

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.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MAGAZINE AND AN JOURNAL?

Q: What is a peer-reviewed journal?

A: A scholarly periodical which requires that each article submitted for publication be judged by an independent panel of experts (scholarly or scientific peers). Articles not approved by a majority of these peers are not accepted for publication by the journal.

Peer-reviewed journals can be identified by their editorial statements or instructions to authors (usually in first few pages of the journal or at the end), and also by consulting Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory, available in the Reference Section with a Call number of: R 016.05 Ul7p. Another term for peer-reviewed is Refereed.

When searching full-text databases such as InfoTrac and EBSCO, a search can be limited to peer-reviewed or refereed sources simply by checking a box on the search screen.

Other common characteristics of scholarly, peer-reviewed, or refereed journal

• Formal in format
• Sources are cited with footnotes or a bibliography at the end of the article
• Authors are scholars and researchers in the field and are identified as such
• Purpose of the article is to publish the results of research
• Publisher may be a professional organization, research institution; usually not-for-profit
• Very little advertising
• Graphics are usually statistical illustrations, in black-and-white

Examples:

American Journal of Public Health
Annals of Tourism Research
British Journal of Audiology
European Physical Education Review
Journal of Aging Studies
Sport Marketing Quarterly etc. etc.

Most of the journals in the ALS Library are peer-reviewed. When in doubt, consult Ulrich's .

The above information came from: University of Illinois-Champaign, Applied Health Sciences LIBRARY
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http://www.library.uiuc.edu/alx/peer.htm

Also, an online tutorial about peer-reviewed journals is at: http://library.nsuok.edu/tutorials/BSOL/bsol_peerreviewjournals.html

How to Tell What Periodicals are Peer-Reviewed

1. In the Journals Themselves

2. In Directories

R 016.05 UL7P

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory 2007 The "premier serials reference source in the world", multivolume set contains bibliographic listings on over 201,330 serials in paper format, electronic and on CD-ROM, published throughout the world, and they are classified in this set by 906 subject headings. "Included are serials that are currently available, issued more frequently than once a year and usually published at regular intervals, as well as publications issued annually or less frequently than once a year, or irregularly." Those serials that are known to be peer-reviewed, refereed, or juried contain a little symbol in front of the title. There are about 23,500 serials that are peer-reviewed or refereed in this set. The directory is arranged by subject. To find a particular serial title, title, look in the Index in Volume 4, under title and look for your title, after the title will be a number in bold print. This is the page number that the tile is on in the set.

2. In EBSCOHost Databases

HOW TO FIND RESEAECH ARTICLES IN JOURNALS

Step One: Look in a Journal Index

A periodical index is a publication that indexes the content of periodicals. There are many different periodical indexes, some general and some subject specific. One thing needs to be made clear: There is not any periodical index that indexes every single periodical being published today. So each index is selective in what periodicals it indexes. Periodical indexes tend to index the most important or most popular or most respected or well known periodicals.

PAPER PERIODICAL INDEXES

For many years periodical indexes were published in paper, like a book. They would usually come out every few months with an update, and then come out at the end of the year with an annual cumulation. Paper periodical indexes are cumbersome to use and take some take to look at every year, but they can contain information on many valuable articles written sometimes years ago, and paper indexes are valuable places to search for topics in music, drama, art, literature and history.

ONLINE PERIODICAL INDEXES

Why use online databases?

• It is much easier to use online databases, and you can search years of a database with one search
• You can also find the most recent articles on any topic because most online databases are updated daily or weekly

There is a disadvantage to online databases for those who are researching topics in history or literature

• Most online databases go back only to the 1990's or the 1980's, and so many potentially valuable articles in older magazines and journals can be missed if you search only in online databases.

Some Online Databases that the SE Library Has

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, you need to plan ahead.

Resources on the Internet

• Childstats.gov: America's Children in Brief
  http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/"
• MedlinePlus: Child Development
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/childdevelopment.html
• Child Development Institute
  http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/
• Child Development : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/child/
• National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
• Healthfinder: Child Development
  http://www.healthfinder.gov/scripts/SearchContext.asp?topic=158&refine=1
• Child Welfare Information Gateway
  http://www.childwelfare.gov/

• Childcare.gov
  http://www.childcare.gov/
• Tufts University: Child and Family Webguide
  http://www.cfw.tufts.edu/
• Child Development Institute: University of North Carolina CHapel Hill
  http://www.fpg.unc.edu/
• Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
  http://cehd.umn.edu/icd/
• Child Development Laboratory, University of Illnois Urbana-Champaign
  http://cdl.uiuc.edu/
• Child Development Research Center, Texas Tech University
  http://www.depts.ttu.edu/hs/cdrc/
• Schubert Center for Child Studies, Case Western Reserve University
  http://www.case.edu/artsci/schubert/
• National Network for Child Care
  http://cyfernet.ces.ncsu.edu/cyfdb/browse_2pageAnncc.php?subcat=Child%20Development

• World Health Organization: Child Development
  http://www.who.int/topics/child_development/en/

• Child Development Organizations
  http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/resources/subject/social/education/childdev.html
• Child Development Association
  http://www.cdakids.org/
• Assoication for Child Development
  http://www.acdcacfp.org/
• National Association for Child Development
  http://nacd.org/
• Society for Research In Child Development
  http://www.srcd.org/

Citing Sources Citation Style Guides

When you do a research paper, the sources of your information need to be cited in your paper. There is a way to do this. There are specific rules that have been devised that explain how to do this. For journals, there are specific things that need to be in a citation. Here is an example of the parts of a journal citation using the APA style.