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Education Resources Online

Education Agencies / Databases / Assessment / Web Guides

Education Agencies

• Developing Educational Standards
  http://edStandards.org/Standards.html

  This new and growing site links to education standards by state and by subject.

• Massachusetts Department of Education
  http://www.doe.mass.edu/

  Site offers a wealth of information on technology, professional development, MCAS, teacher test, and full-text Curriculum Frameworks, plus much more.

• U.S. Department of Education
  http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml
  

Education Databases

In order to locate journal articles and documents in education, students search online databases. Some databases offer full-text articles, others just the bibliographic information, including the citation and abstract.

Access the Library databases page through the myLibrary tab in myLesley. When you get to the page listing the library databases, scroll down to the section for Education. Need help getting to the databases? Go to "Get Started."

• Great Places to Start
  Lesley Libraries subscribes to several multi-disciplinary databases that offer awesome numbers of education journals with full-text articles.
  • Academic Search Premier
  • Wilson OmniFile
    
• Specialized Databases for Educators
  Other databases specialize in particular subject areas or types of information. They may or may not be full-text. Look for the FT next to the name.
  
  • ERIC: The Education Resources Information Center is the most important source of scholarly material in the field of education. ERIC indexes journal articles, ERIC documents and professional books, giving citation and abstracts for all records. ERIC offers full-text digests and bibliographies, but no full-text journal articles. ERIC may be accessed through two different pathways:
    • ERIC at Ludcke Library: This version of ERIC, obtained from EBSCOhost, is enhanced with links to full-text journal articles from other EBSCO databases. It also links to full-text ERIC documents.
    • Educators on Web: Offers free database searching as well as lesson plans, and full-text assessment documents.
  • ProQuest Education Journals: This database covers the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education as well as special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics. Nearly 400 journals are included, with full text back to the early 1990s.
  • Full Text Resources Online
    http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/kholmes/libguides/fulltext.html

    A growing list of links to sites that offer journal articles and documents to print or download directly off the Internet. Included are journal publishers that offer selected articles from recent issues as well as databases and search engines that specialize in full-text resources.

Assessment

• Test Locator
  http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp

  Rich resource for identifying tests and sources of test reviews.

• Practical Assessment Research and Evaluation
  http://PAREonline.net

  A full text journal with articles on all aspects of assessment.

• Testing Materials Resource Book Online
  http://www.psychtest.com

  Full-text descriptions of many assessment tools--searchable.

• Tests & Assessment
  http://library.stmarytx.edu/acadlib/subject/psych/psych.htm#tests

  An extensive set of links to test and assessment resources, offered on the superb web pages of Margaret Sylvia, a librarian at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX.

Web Guides

These excellent sites have selected web pages especially for use by educators and students. They span the whole PRE K-12 curriculum.

• Pitsco’s Ask an Expert
  http://www.askanexpert.com/

  Looking for answers to questions about whales, volcanoes, or English grammar? Ask-an-Expert services are offered by government agencies, museums, newspapers, universities, and individuals. This site provides a list of selected expert sites by subject as well as direct email links to experts, with an emphasis on kid-friendly information.

• Create Your Own Teacher Web Page with TeacherWeb
  http://www.teacherweb.com

• Busy Teacher's Web Site K-12
  http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/

  This site seeks to provide teachers with direct source materials, as well as lesson plans and classroom activities, and to provide an enjoyable and rewarding experience for the teacher who is learning to use the Internet.

• Edutopia Online
  http://www.glef.org

  This site recognizes innovative classrooms and skillful educators. Alternative assessment, emotional intelligence and project-based learning are among their priorities.

• GEM: Gateway to Educational Materials
  http://www.thegateway.org/

  "GEM lets teachers, as well as parents and students, search instructional materials of more than 140 federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial organizations. These materials may also be browsed by subject area or key word. Currently, more than 40,000 items are included in GEM with hundreds of new resources being added and new consortium members joining."

• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
  http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

  This award-winning site 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."

• Librarians' Index to the Internet
  http://lii.org/

  Click on the Education link under Society and Social Science to view a highly selective index to excellent, reliable web sites on a broad range of education topics.

• NYISE's Helping Hand to the Internet
  http://www.nyise.org/education/index.html

  This site sponsored by the New York Institute for Special Education links to a variety of education resources.

• Teachers Helping Teachers
  http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/index.html

  This dynamic site "created BY teachers FOR teachers," invites teachers to share questions, ideas and lesson plans with each other.

• Ten Cool Sites!
  http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/sciencesites.html

  Watch this site monthly for the Exploratorium's choice of ten best sites in Science, Art and Education, plus an archive of past selections.

This page created for students and faculty by Lesley University reference librarians.

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