Education Research

Courtney Fuson

615-460-5492

courtney.fuson@belmont.edu

By the time I’m done, you will know

How to recognize scholarly resources How to locate subject-specific databases How to effectively search the library’s databases How to distinguish between different citations How to use a bibliography (or works cited) to

identify potential sources

Scholarly Resources

AKA “peer reviewed”, “refereed”, “journal articles”

discipline-specific peer-reviewed written on a higher reading level written by a credentialed author cite their sources

Where can you find scholarly articles?

Internet Google? Google Scholar? Wikipedia? – References list?

Library Catalog? Databases?

CUBcat

Library catalog Provides access to everything the library owns

Books Journals E-books Databases Media

Database

Collection of newspaper, magazine and journal articles

Can include dissertations, reports and other resources

http://library.belmont.edu Click on Databases Scroll down and click on Education to see all of the

education resources

Search Strategies

Keyword searching Boolean Searching

AND OR

Subject searching Thesaurus

AND

Supreme Court education

Supreme Court AND education

OR

inclusion

special educationmainstreaming

inclusion OR mainstreaming OR special education

Search strategies

Supreme Court AND education inclusion OR special education OR

mainstreaming public schools AND (inclusion OR

mainstreaming OR special education) “special education”

Thesaurus

list of subjects and related terms used to standardize the descriptions of articles in the database.

You can select and search for synonyms, related, and preferred terms.

Other resources

Government Documents Department of Education (state & federal)

Statistics National Center for Education Statistics National Assessment of Educational Progress Nation’s Report Card Census Bureau

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Evaluate it!Great! I found some stuff! Now what?

Accuracy

Is the information reliable? How do you know?

Authority

Is the author identified? What are the author’s credentials?

Are the credentials relevant to the topic?

Currency

Is there a date? If it’s older information, is it still accurate?

Coverage/Purpose

Why is this information being presented? Who is the intended audience?

Objectivity

Is the author or organization biased? Does the source represent both sides of the

issue? What is the tone of the source?

Reading citations

Is it a… Book Book chapter Article Dissertation Report

Book

Kember, David. Action Learning and Action Research: Improving the Quality of Teaching and Learning. London: Kogan Page. 2000.

How do I find books?

CUBCat (the library’s catalog) Title search

Kember, David. Action Learning and Action Research: Improving the Quality of Teaching and Learning. London: Kogan Page. 2000.

Article

D’Amato, John. “The Belly of the Beast: On Cultural Difference, Castelike Statues and the Politics of School.” Anthropolgy and Education Quarterly, 18.4 (1987): 357-360

How do I find articles?

CUBCat (the library’s catalog) Journal Title

D’Amato, John. “The Belly of the Beast: On Cultural Difference, Castelike Statues and the Politics of School.” Anthropolgy and Education Quarterly, 18.4 (1987): 357-360

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Dissertation

Getty, Jacob. A School Action Plan with Stakeholder Involvement: A Case Study of One Elementary School.  Diss. Wilmington University (Delaware), 2011.

How do I find dissertations?

Usually availably only through InterLibrary Loan ProQuest lists many dissertations (ProQuest

Dissertations & Abstracts) Library catalog of the publishing university WorldCat (http://worldcat.org)

Getty, Jacob. A School Action Plan with Stakeholder Involvement: A Case Study of One Elementary School.  Diss. Wilmington University (Delaware), 2011.

Report

King, Martha L., and Rentel, Victor M. How children learn to write: A longitudinal study. Report to the National Institute of Education, Washington, D. C. 1981.

Reports?

Try the publishing agency’s website Try Google or Google Scholar Try a subject-specific database

King, Martha L., and Rentel, Victor M. How children learn to write: A longitudinal study. Report to the National Institute of Education, Washington, D. C. 1981.

POP QUIZ!

Eisenhard, Margaret and Borko, Hilda. Designing Classroom Research: Themes, Issues, and Struggles. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 1993.

Saul, Wendy, and J. Carrie Launius. "Making the Case for ACTION Research." Science Scope 34.1 (2010): 24-29. 

Turner, Susan A. "Teaching research to teachers: A self-study of course design, student outcomes, and instructor learning." Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning 10.2 (2010): 60-77. 

Stumped?

In person – 3rd floor Office hours: M-F 8am-4:30pm

(other times available by appointment)

Via email – courtney.fuson@belmont.edu By phone – 615-460-5492 Online

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