Early
Childhood Education
A research guide: books, articles, & web sites
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How to Find
Books in the ODU Library: Search in
the ODU Library Catalog.
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How to Find
Books in Other OhioLINK Libraries:
Search in the OhioLINK Library Catalog, or start your search in the ODU Library Catalog and then click
on the OhioLINK button at the top of the results screen to search statewide.
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To Help You Search in the Catalogs: |
Reference Books—A Selection
Reference books provide a good starting point for
your research. Reference items are located in the Library’s Reference
collection, behind the Reference Desk on the top floor of Spangler.
See also these
related research guides: K-12 Education, Special Education, and TESOL.
Bibliographies
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Acquiring and Organizing Curriculum
Materials. R 027.7 L321a, 1997
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ARBA (American Reference Books Annual). Ch. 5: Education. R 011.02 A512r
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Education: A Guide to Reference and Information
Sources. R 016.37 O67e, 2000
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Education State
Rankings 2002-2003: Pre K-12 Education in the United States.
R 371.0102 E836s, 2002
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Neal Schumann Guide to
Recommended Children’s Books and Media for Use with Every Elementary Subject. R 011.62
M431n
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Picture Books to Enhance the Curriculum. R 371.3 H2288p, 1996
Content Standards
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Academic Content Standards. K-12 English Language Arts. R 372.6 O31a, 2002 and Curriculum Guides
372.6 O31a, 2002
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Academic Content Standards. K-12 Mathematics. R 372.72 O31a, 2002 and Curriculum Guides
372.72 O31a, 2002
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Academic Content Standards. K-12 Science.
R 372.35 O31a, 2003 and Curriculum Guides
372.35 O31a, 2003
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Academic Content Standards. K-12 Social Studies. R 372.83 O31a, 2003 and Curriculum Guides
372.83 O31a, 2003
Dictionaries
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A Critical
Dictionary of Educational Concepts. R 370.3
B278c, 1990
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Dictionary of
Multicultural Education. R 370.117 D554,
1997
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The Facts on File
Dictionary of Education. R 370.321
S296f, 1988
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The Greenwood Dictionary
of Education. R 370.3 F856d v. 1
Directories
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The Internet
Resource Directory for K-12 Teachers and Librarians. R 025.06 I886r 2000-01
Encyclopedias
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Encyclopedia of
African American Education. R 371.97
E56, 1996
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Encyclopedia of
American Education. R 370.973 U57, 2001
3 vols.
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Encyclopedia of
Education. R 370.3 E56d, 1971 8 vols.
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Encyclopedia of
Educational Leadership and Administration. R371.2 E194e, 2006 vols. 1-2
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Philosophy of
Education: An Encyclopedia. R 370.1 P568, 1996
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Standards and Schooling in the United States: An
Encyclopedia. R 379.158 S244s, 2001 3
vols.
Guides and Handbooks
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Blackwell Handbook of Early Childhood
Development. R 305.231 B5684h, 2006
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Contemporary
Education Issues. For available listings in this series, perform a title search
in the ODU Library Catalog for Contemporary
Education Issues.
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Education across the Century: The Centennial Volume. R 370.6 N277y v.100:pt.1
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The Educator’s Desk Reference. R 370.72 F8755e
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Early Childhood Education. R 370.6 N277y, 1972 vol.71 pt. 2
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Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education. R 370.117
H1917r
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Learning About Learning
Disabilities. R 371.926 L438, 1998
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National Survey of State
Laws. R 349.73 N2138s, 2003
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Ohio School Laws & Rules Annotated,
2004-2005. (CD-ROM available)
R 344.07 B182ohi, 2004-05 2 vols.
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Pass the Praxis II Test: Principles of Learning
and Teaching.
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Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors. At the Reference Desk - Refr 025 T413, 2001
Testing of Students
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Assessing Children’s Well-Being: A Handbook of
Measures. R 618.92 A741c, 2004
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Educator’s Handbook on Effective Testing. R
371.26 E839h
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Performance-Based Student Assessment: Challenges
and Possibilities. R 370.6 N277y, 1996
v. 95 pt. 1
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Tests in Print.
R 016.37126 T289i, 2002
Reference Resources Online
Mental
Measurements Yearbook
This
database contains full-text information about and reviews of all English-language
standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational
aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental
Measurements Yearbooks.
To
access:
From the library homepage, click on Articles
in Databases, select the Education
category, and click on Mental
Measurement Yearbook from the list.
Searchable full-text
dictionaries, Educational encyclopedias, and more are available via the ODU
Library’s Quick Reference page. To
access from the library homepage: Click on Quick
Reference.
eBooks
Full-text ebook
database. Search among 15,000 ebooks from multiple disciplines, including
reference books, other nonfiction, and fiction—including books about children’s
literature Search by keyword, title, or author. To access: From the library homepage,
click on Books, and then select NetLibrary.
Brookings Online Library Catalog: Education
http://brookings.edu/data/brookings_taxonomy.xml?taxonomy=Education
Includes
several online full-text publications, such as the following:
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Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2000
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The Charter School Challenge: Avoiding the Pitfalls, Fulfilling the
Promise (1999)
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It Takes A City: Getting Serious about Urban School Reform (2000)
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The Black-White Test Score Gap
(1998)
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The Tracking Wars: State Reform Meets School Policy (1999)
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School Choice and Social Controversy: Politics, Policy, and Law (1999)
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Choosing Equality: School Choice, the
Constitution, and Civil Society (1999)
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Use an online research database to
find articles in scholarly journals, general magazines, and newspapers. ·
To access the databases below, from
the Library’s Articles in
Databases page, select the Education
category, or choose from the A-Z index near the top of the page. ·
To Help You Search in the Databases: |
A: Key Database for Education
Research
Contains peer-reviewed
journal coverage from more than 3,400 scholarly publications. Covers many academic areas of study, including social sciences,
humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and
linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Updated daily.
Covers contemporary education
issues, and indexes core international periodicals,
monographs, and yearbooks in education.
Updated monthly.
Education Research Complete
Includes scholarly research and
information relating to all areas of education, including curriculum
instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.
Coverage includes journals, books, and conference papers. Some publications
indexed as far back as the beginning of the twentieth century.
Presents over 4300 research
journals, covering numerous subject areas.
ERIC
is the U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center
database which contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and
education-related journals. It also
contains full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional
information. Updated quarterly.
Social
Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
Citations.
Indexes articles of scholarly journals from 50 disciplines of the social
sciences, with searchable author abstracts and a unique feature that enables
searching of articles that cite a known author or work. Note: Not intended as a
substitute for a comprehensive subject database such as SocINDEX, which comprehensively indexes journal
articles, books, conference proceedings, and other documents.
B: Databases for Professional
Development
Covers general reference, health, science, and other areas from
over 490 general interest and current events magazines. Updated daily.
Primary
Search
Includes
coverage from 50 children’s magazines and over 100 children’s pamphlets,
designed for the elementary school student.
Updated weekly.
Professional
Development Collection
Full-Text. Provides a
highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for
professional educators, professional librarians and education researchers.
Finding
Periodicals in this Library
Listed below are some early childhood education and related periodicals
available in the ODU Library.