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Education 600: Research Principles
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Reference Roomerence Resources | Writing Guides | Tests and Measures | Find Books | Find Articles |
Reference Room Sources:
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks
- Concise Encyclopedia of Special Education 2002 3 vol. (Reference Room LC4007 .E53 2002)
- Education Statistics of the United States. 2001 (Reference Room LB 2846 .E39 2001)
- Encyclopedia of American Education 1996 3 vol. LB17 .U54 1996
- Encyclopedia of Education 2nd ed. 8 vol. (LB 15 E47 2003)
- Encyclopedia of Educational Research. 6th ed. 4v. (Reference Room LB 15 E48 1992)
- International Encyclopedia of Education. 12 v. 1994, 10v. 1985. (Reference Room LB 15 I569)
- Handbook of Research on Teacher Education. (Reference Room LB 1715 H274 1996)
- International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. 26 v. Reference Room H41 I58 2001
Writing Guides
- Guide to the Successful Thesis and Dissertation: a handbook for students and faculty
- Location: Reference Room LB2369 M377 1998
- How to Write Psychology Papers
- Location: Reference Room BF76.5 .P27 1999
- Portable dissertation advisor
- Location: Floor 2 LB1742 .B79 2004
- Psychologist's Companion : a guide to scientific writing for students and researchers
- Location: Reference Room BF76.8 .S73 1993
- Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
- Location: Reference Room BF 76.5 A54 2001
- Style guides: Other resources: http://library.csun.edu/eReference Roombks.html#style_guides
- Thesis guide at CSUN
- Location: Internet Adobe pdf or Word Document
- Writing papers in Psychology
- Location: Reference Room BF 76.7 R67 2001
- Writing research papers across the curriculum / Susan M. Hubbuch.
- Location : Floor 2 LB2369 .H83 1996
- Research pathways : writing professional papers, theses, and dissertations in workforce education / edited by Edgar I. Farmer, Jay W. Rojewski.
- Location: Floor 2 HD5715 .R457 2001
Tests and Measures
see also Educational Psychology 601 handout- 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. 6v. (Reference Room LB 3051 E79); online http://www.ets.org/testcoll/index.html. 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.
- Finding Statistics about Education http://library.csun.edu/mfinley/edstats.html
- Mental Measurements Yearbook. (Reference Room BF 176 B861) The principal work on testing and measurement. It consists of descriptive information, Reference Roomerences and critical reviews of commercially published English-language tests.
- Test Critiques. 10 v. (Reference Room BF 176 T419) Contains reviews of the most frequently used psychological, educational and business tests.
Find Books:
Check the Library Catalog
Library
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Find Articles:
Periodicals/Journals: Indexes
- Education Abstracts (EducationAbs)
- 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.
- 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 (Wizard is free to the public)
- Psychological Abstracts/PsycInfo
- Indexes books and 1,300 journals written in over 25 languages, spanning 1887 to the present
- Location: Reference Room Table 6 BF 1 . P65 and Online
- 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-
- Medline / 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: Reference Room Table Z 660 .I42. Free Web access through PubMed
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