Child Development 390 : Proseminar in Child Development

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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks    
Subject words: education encyclopedias

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development

Location: REFRM QP84 .C26 1998)

Dictionary of Developmental Psychology

Location REFRM BF712.7 S78 1995

Encyclopedia of early childhood education

Location: REFRM LB1139.25 .E53 1992

Encyclopedia of Learning and Memory

Location: REFRM BF318 .E53 1992

Encyclopedia of Early Childhood Education

Location: REFRM LB1139.25 .E53 1992

The Family Encyclopedia of Child Psychology and Development

Location: REFRM BF721 .B7157 1992

:Growing up : a cross-cultural encyclopedia

Location: REFRM HQ767.84 .B76 1995

Handbook of Child Psychology 4 v. 1998

Location: REFRM BF721 H242 1998

Tests & Measures

Buros Institute of Mental Measurements

Provides catalog information about the Buros publications, test locator, test publisher locator, test review locator. ERIC/AE test locator included.

EBSS: Education and Behavioral Sciences Section

by the Association of College and Research Libraries covers Lesson plans and Teaching activities, Educational Tests/Psychology, National Standards, Children's and Young Adult Literature, and International/National Education Statistics. Education Sources links to web resources as well as CSUN Library holdings

ETS Test Collection Catalog

Provides basic information, such as grade level, descriptors, abstract and availability source. Each volume highlights a particular subject area. Has author, test title, and subject indexes.

Location: REFRM LB 3051 E79 6v.

ERIC/AE Test Locator

Mental Measurements Yearbook.

The principal work on testing and measurement. It consists of descriptive information, references and critical reviews of commercially published English-language tests.

Location: REFRM BF 176 B861

Test Critiques.

Contains reviews of the most frequently used psychological, educational and business tests.

Location REFRM BF 176 T419 10 v.

Tests: a Comprehensive Reference for Assessments in Psychology, Education and Business

REFRM BF 176 T43 1997

Tests and Measurements in Child Development

REFRM BF 722 .J643

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AcademicSearch Elite (EbscoHost)

Full-text and citations from journals and magazines, may limit to only search full-text, within a specific date range and peer reviewed journals

CQ Researcher

Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social issues to environment, health, education and science and technology

Location: REFRM H35 .C67 and Online

Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)

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Psychological Abstracts/PsycInfo

Indexes books and 1,300 journals written in over 25 languages, spanning 1887 to the present

Location: REFRM Table 6 BF 1 . P65 and Online

Index Medicus

An index to 3,700 medical journals published by the National Library of Medicine covering: medicine, health administration, psychology, physical therapy, nursing, all allied health education.

Location: REFRM Table Z 660 .I42 and online: FirstSearch, and LexisNEXIS; and free Web access through PubMed

Education Index

A primary source, along with ERIC, in education. Indexes articles published in approximately 300 education journals. Education Abtracts is one of the many indexes included in the FirstSearch2 database.

Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography

Location: Table 7 REFRM HQ750.A1 C47 Not currently received. 1928-1993

ERIC (Late 1960's-)

A database that indexes and abstracts 750 journal titles (EJ) and thousands of reports and documents (ED) in education.

Location: Online through CSA,  FirstSearch and EricWizard

Sociological Abstracts

Provides indexing and detailed abstracts of articles taken from 3,000 journals published world wide in sociology, social work and related social and behavioral sciences. Indexing began in 1963, abstracts from 1974-

Social Sciences Index

An index to articles and book reviews in 400 English-language journals in anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology and sociology. Indexing started in 1983, abstracts from 1994-

Writing Guides

How to Write Psychology Papers

Location: REFRM BF76.5 .P27 1999

Psychologist’s Companion : a guide to scientific writing for students and researchers

Location: REFRM BF76.8 .S73 1993

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association

Location: REFRM BF 76.5 A54 2001

Writing papers in Psychology

BF 76.7 R67 2001

Thesis guide at CSUN:

Location: Internet http://www.csun.edu/%7Egripact/3Evaluations/Thesis%20Guidelines%201999.doc.pdf

Links to Citation Style Guides On-line

Location: Internet http://library.csun.edu/crussom/bibcit.html