Manderino Library: Education Administration: Find Resources

Education Administration Databases

Education Source
The premier education research tool, Education Source covers all levels of education, as well as all educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. (EBSCO)

More info from EBSCO.
ERIC
ERIC is one of the standard databases for education research (and useful for communication studies and psychology research). ERIC covers two types of materials: documents [reports, papers, book chapters, etc.] and journal articles. (EBSCO)

Alternate Access from the Dept. of Education site: ERIC: Institute of Education Sciences
Note: Anyone can use the Dept. of Education site--which provides free access to many ERIC documents and articles.
Cal U patrons: Using EBSCOhost gives you access to more full-text articles.
Teacher Reference Center
Professional educators will find relevant articles from teacher and administrator journals and magazines--most of which are peer-reviewed--dealing with: assessment, pedagogical methods, curriculum, instructional media, literacy standards, administration, etc. (EBSCO)
PsycINFO
The premier research tool for psychology, behavioral, and social science disciplines. Provides access to journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, and technical reports. (EBSCO)

Covers more than 2,500 journals (99% are peer-reviewed). Provides extensive coverage since the 1800s, with some coverage back into the 17th and 18th centuries.
For advanced searching, you can use the Classification Categories and Codes as a search limiter to narrow your results.
More info from EBSCO.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
This "collection" is subset of full-text resources from other EBSCO databases on psychological and behavioral sciences topics. (EBSCO)

Education Administration Web Sites

If you are looking for a website related to education these links may be a helpful place to start. This is just a very small collection of some of the good stuff that's out on the web. So, depending on what you need, you might need to look somewhere else, too.

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
NCES collects, analyzes, and reports statistics on the condition of American education; and reviews and reports on education activities internationally.

These NCES pages are particularly helpful: Online Data Search Tools and Fast Facts about Education

Pennsylvania Department of Education
Information about all levels of education in the state of Pennsylvania, teacher certification, school districts, etc.; plus news about state initiatives, a "Kids Stuff" page, and access to Web-based bulletin boards.

Federal Resources for Education Excellence (FREE)
K-12 Teachers: Find federally supported teaching and learning resources from dozens of federal agencies. Covers all disciplines. You can use an RSS feed to get new resources automatically delivered to you several times a week.

National Science Digital Library
NSDL was created by the National Science Foundation to provide educators at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education with innovative teaching resources and tools.
College Insight
This site makes statistical data on college affordability, diversity, and student success easy to find, compare, and analyze. Search by college, state, topic, and more. From the Institute for College Access & Success.

Google Scholar @ Cal U
Google Scholar finds scholarly articles, books, papers, etc. Note: This link identifies you to Google Scholar as a Cal U person. This provides you with access to items that are available through the Library. Look for the "Full-Text @ Cal U" links.

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