Welcome to the Richter Library's Guide to Education!
Hello all, and welcome to the University of Miami Libraries' Guide to Education Resources! The Richter Library offers you a wide variety of resources related to the field of Education, from educational statistics and curriculium mapping materials to popular children's novels that can be used in the classroom.
Lauren Fralinger
- Education and Arts & Sciences Librarian
- l.fralinger@miami.edu
- (305) 284-4053
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Defines more than 500 terms and identifies the major area of learning theory under which each term falls: behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, humanism, organizational learning, or educational technology.
Need more ebooks? If you can't find what you're looking for in the library's ebooks catalog, check out PsycBooks or Ebrary for all your ebook needs!
- JSTOR
JSTOR provides digital versions of the backfiles of major scholarly journals. Primarily an archival collection, JSTOR does not provide access to the most recent 3-5 years of content for most titles. - E-Journals by Title
If you have the title of a journal and wish to search its contents, check out UM's list of journals. Enter the name of the journal into the search box and let it take you directly to the journal you're looking for.
ERIC, Education Full-Text and PsycINFO are your best bets when you are trying to locate articles and documents pertaining to education. See the "Additional databases" section below for other suggestions.
START HERE if you don't know what journal you need or if you want to search across many sources.
- Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. - Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
This education database indexes English language articles in periodicals and books.Selected full-text coverage of articles begins in January 1996. Abstracts are provided beginning in January 1994. Books coverage begins in 1995. - ERIC (EBSCO)
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text educational literature and resources. Essential for education researchers of all kinds, it features journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC contains more than 1.5 million records and links to more than 336,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966. It includes records for a variety of source types, including journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, policy papers and more. - ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
ERIC is an internet-based digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature from 1966 to the present. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized site for searching the ERIC bibliographic records (citations, abstracts, and other pertinent data) of more than 1.6 million items indexed since 1966. - PsycINFO
Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, in behavioral science and mental health. Citations and summaries date back to early 1800s; journal coverage from 1887 to present. From the American Psychological Association.
Don't see what you need in the Core Education Databases section? Education topics can cross a wide variety of disciplines. Check out these databases for further help.
You can also use databases in other subject areas to help you find what you need. Going to be an art teacher? Check out our Art and Art History Databases. Biology teacher? Look at our Biology Databases. Just use the drop menu on the Databases page to navigate to the subject you prefer.
What is a citation? Simply put, it's the information about the book or article that you're looking for or using. If you already have a citation, you're halfway to finding it. Let's do an example.
Say you're looking for this article:
Dickinson, R. (2006). Harry Potter Pedagogy: What We Learn about Teaching and Learning from J. K. Rowling. Clearing House: A Journal Of Educational Strategies, Issues And Ideas, 79(6), 240-244.
The citation is made up of several parts: The Author. (Publication Year). Title of Article. Title of Journal, Volume (Issue), Pages.
The most important part of the citation is the Title of Journal, followed by the Volume, Issue, or Page numbers. If you have a citation, your next step is to go to Citation Linker.
Enter the information you have into Citation Linker.
Click on "Submit". This will take you to a new page, with several sources that have the journal Clearing House and the right volume and issue number.
Click on the word Journal under the Full Text column. Any one of the links will take you to a database that contains the article you are looking for. From here, simply find the correct year, volume, and issue number, which will take you to your article.
To locate books on activity programs or activities for the classroom, go to the library catalog and perform a subject search using any of the following suggested terms:
- Activity programs in education
- Study and teaching
- Children's Libraries Activity Programs
- Education Primary Activity Programs
- Special Education Activity Programs
Other terms can be used to help narrow down searches to specific subject area programs, such as "Study and Teaching Science" or "Study and Teaching English".
- The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) Standards for the 21st Century Learner Lesson Plan Database
The American Association of School Librarians has created this database of lesson plans as "a tool to support school librarians and other educators in teaching the essential learning skills." Lesson plans are vetted by the AASL and are in alignment with both AASL standards and Common Core standards. - Annenberg Learners Teachers Lab
Along with lesson plans for different subject areas in K-12 schools, the Annenberg Learners Teachers Lab provides video and other interactive plans for teachers to use in the classroom. - BBC Learning
Who doesn't love the BBC? Get activity ideas, games, video clips and more from across the pond. - ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
ERIC is an internet-based digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature from 1966 to the present. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized site for searching the ERIC bibliographic records (citations, abstracts, and other pertinent data) of more than 1.6 million items indexed since 1966. - Information Literacy and Fake News Activities and Resources
- NC Civic Education Consortium - Database of K-12 Resources
This searchable database currently includes lesson plans aligned to the NC Essential Standards, as well as activities for use in school, after school and extra-curricular settings. - PBS Learning Media
"PBS LearningMediaâ„¢ is the go-to destination for instant access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos, games, audio clips, photos, lesson plans, and more! You can search, save, and share with ease. Best of all, PBS LearningMedia is free for educators." - Read Write Think
Run by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), ReadWriteThink provides lesson plans, activities and ideas across a wide variety of subject areas. English, STEM, ESL, Math and Fine Arts lesson topics are included for K-12 students. - Scholastic
Scholastic does far more than publish amazing books. Resources, tools, teaching strategies, lesson plans and more for students K-12. Reading, Language Arts, Social Studies, Math and Science are all included.
The American Association of School Librarians has compiled a Best Websites for Teaching and Learning list. Check out the variety of resources, which assist teachers in incorporating digital storytelling, social networking, curriculum collaboration and more into lessons.
AASL's Best Websites for Teaching and Learning
- SAGE Research Methods
SAGE Research Methods is an online tool for research designed to guide users through every step of the research process. It includes more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, while the Methods Map is meant to help find the best research technique, with answers that range from a quick answer found in a dictionary to case studies, teaching datasets, and full-text titles. - SAGE Research Methods Cases 1
SAGE Research Methods Cases 1 is a collection of case studies written by the researches themselves that show the realities of doing research; they explain how the methods use were chosen, how problems in research were overcome, and what might have been done differently with hindsight. All of the cases are peer-reviewed and include tools for further learning and investigation that allow them to be used both as a teaching tool and as inspiration for other research projects. - SAGE Research Methods Datasets 1
SAGE Research Methods Datasets 1 is a collection of teaching datasets and instructional guides that are indexed by method and data type and optimized to be used for practicing analysis and analytical decisions as a way to improve as a researcher.
Many of these resources are produced by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and draw from surveys done by the NCES, the U.S. Census Bureau, and other government and private agencies
- EdStats
The World Bank's database of education statistics brings together data collected by various national and international organizations.
- Eurydice
An information network on education in Europe established by the European Commission and its member states.
- International Comparisons in Education
Links to data from international comparisons in education, and to various reports compiled from this data by the National Center for Education Statistics.
- International Education Statistics Websites
A select list of links to country's statistics web pages compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics.
- OECD Education Database
Database of key education indicators including enrollment, graduation rates, staffing, and educational expenditures. Data can be correlated by a number of variables including country, date, educational level, gender, and type of institution.
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Education statistics cover pre-primary, primary, secondary, post-secondary non-tertiary, and tertiary education. Includes education indicators on enrollment, literacy, staff, education expenditures, and gender disparities.
- World Bank Education
Portal to the World Bank's education pages.
If you have questions about how to use ICPSR or how to locate other social data, please contact Cameron Riopelle, our data services librarian.
Cameron Riopelle
Data Services Librarian
Phone: 305-284-3257
Email: criopelle@miami.edu
The University of Miami Libraries tries to keep the most recent test preparation guides for the Florida Teacher Certification Examinations. Test preparation guides are available to help candidates prepare for the FTCE tests. These guides are each approximately 30 pages in length and include a list of competencies and skills tested and sample test items.
To locate guides, go to the library catalog and perform a subject search for "Florida teacher certification examination--study"; or, perform a keyword search for FTCE and YOUR SUBJECT (i.e. FTCE and Biology)
The University of Miami Libraries tries to keep the most recent test preparation guides for the Florida Teacher Certification Examinations. Test preparation guides are available to help candidates prepare for the FTCE tests. These guides are each approximately 30 pages in length and include a list of competencies and skills tested and sample test items.
To locate guides, go to the library catalog and perform a subject search for "Florida teacher certification examination--study"; or, perform a keyword search for FTCE and YOUR SUBJECT (i.e. FTCE and Biology)
What is plagarism?
Ideas - and the words that express them - can belong to people. So when you use someone else's words and ideas, especially in your essays and written assignments, you have to tell people where you got your ideas and quotes from. If you don't cite your sources, it's considered a type of stealing.
Don't be an idea thief!
Use the links and videos on this page to learn what plagiarism is, and why your professors don't want you to do it.
- What is Plagiarism? An interactive game and guide from Rutgers University.
- Plagiarism 101.
- Avoiding Plagiarism. A guide provided by the Purdue OWL.
- The Writer's Handbook to Avoiding Plagiarism. By the University of Wisconsin Writing Center.
Education
- EPS 422: Applied Research Methods
- EPS 440: Listening and Helping Skills
- EPS 554: Essentials of Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
- EPS 708: Meta Analysis for Research Synthesis
- EPS 752: Dissertation Seminar
- First Year Directions: Education
- Graduate Student Guide
- TAL 101
- TAL 103
- TAL 191: Developmental Reading Skills for College Students
- TAL 203: Survey of Children's Literature
- TAL 308: Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Youth Learners
- TAL 324: Education and the Arts
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