Foundations of Education

Overview
Library Website Collections in the Library Searching Techniques Searching for Articles

Library Homepage

http://www.swosu.edu/library/

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Education Collections in the Library

Collections in the library specific to Education

Curriculum Collection
Textbooks and curriculum materials up for or have been adopted for use in the state of Oklahoma. Adopted textbooks circulate. (you can check them out)

Reavis Collection
Special materials written on education topics for a professional audience.

ENC Collection
Specialized curriculum materials for the fields of Math and Science.

Juvenile Collection
Non-fiction and fiction books for children and young adults.

Searching Techniques

Keyword vs. Subject

Natural language Flexible terminology Less accurate Use with Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT) Predetermined terminology Thesaurus More precise

More about Keyword Searching

Use phrasing for single concept, multiple words
(educational system) Early childhood education Most common use of & ( ):
Basic phrase Proper names Slogans, advertisements Famous quotes Movie titles, song titles, etc. Hyphenated words

Truncation
* or ?

How to use:
Roots Teach* Vowels Wom*n

Operators
AND = Narrow OR = Expand
(Used with synonyms)

NOT = Exclude

Combining Operators
Order Matters!
children AND (violence OR bullying) NOT television
looks up articles about bullying or violence pertaining to children, excluding any occurrences with television

children AND television NOT (violence OR bullying)

looks up articles about children and television excluding anything having to do with violence or bullying

Phrasing Matters
(elementary school children) AND bullying
looks up articles about bullying in elementary school children

elementary AND school AND children AND bullying

looks up articles about bullying with the words elementary, school and children, not necessarily focusing on elementary school children.

(elementary school) AND children AND bullying

looks up articles about children in an elementary school that deal with bullying.

Searching for Articles

What Are Differences between Popular and Scholarly Publications?

Magazines vs. Scholarly Journals

Popular vs. Scholarly Publications

Popular Magazines
Overall appearance Glossy paper, advertisements, heavily illustrated, attractive in appearance

Scholarly Journals
Sober and serious, may contain graphs or charts, will not find glossy pages or photographs

Audience Authors

General Public Reporters

Scholars and students Scholars in the field

Documentation

Sources sometimes cited for news articles, but rarely

Cite sources in footnotes, endnotes, parenthetical notes or bibliography

Purpose

Provide general information

Report on original research or experimentation

Often undergo a "peer-reviewed" process -reviewed by other scholars in the field before being published. Sometimes these journals are called "refereed journals."

Article Acceptance Procedure

Articles written by hired reporters, edited by magazine editors, and published

How do I discover whether the library owns a periodical I want to use?

Check the Periodicals List

Do we own High School Journal?

Education Journals

Catalyst for Change

National School Development Council (available through Education Research Complete)

Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (microfiche)

News Bulletin
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (paper)

English Journal Research in the Teaching of English

National Council of Teachers of English (microfilm, databases, paper)

Journal of Social Work Education

Council on Social Work Education (databases)

Social Education
National Council for the Social Studies (microfilm, databases, paper)

Music Educators Journal Journal of Research in Music Education

National Association for Music Education (databases, paper)

 Journal of Research in Childhood Education

Association for Childhood Education International (paper)

Journal of Research in Teaching Science

National Association for Research in Science Teaching (microfilm, databases, paper)

Journal of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Research Quarterly of the American Association for Health and Physical Education Research Quarterly of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation (databases, paper)

Databases available for Education Majors

General Articles
ERIC Education Research Complete Academic Search Complete JSTOR Journal Archive Project Muse Journal Archive

Specialized
Mental Measurements Yearbook KCDL: Kraus Curriculum Development Library SPORTDiscus Certification Exams for Oklahoma Educators (CEOE)

The Articles section is where journal information is located. You can look up articles by subject, find them in alphabetical order or use the Periodicals List to see if we own a particular journal either online or in the library.

For education related searches, Click the Education option.

For general education articles you will want to search either ERIC or Education Research Complete. Remember that ERC contains articles only, and ERIC is a depository of various types of information about education. ERIC comes to us from the U.S. Department of Education.

Setting Up Your EBSCO Folder

Creating a folder allows you to set up your own personal workspace inside the article database. You will be able to save any articles from any EBSCO database in this workspace.

Searching for Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Keywords = education and law

EBSCOHost Search Screen:

Enter your keyword(s) and operators in the Search box

Check the Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals box if you want material that is research based.

Check the Full Text box if you want material that is available online.

Scholarly sources are concerned with academic study, especially research for individuals such as, students, teachers, professors, or any other professional who need current information to stay informed of changes to their profession or area of expertise. Many scholarly journals are peer reviewed or refereed; that is, these articles have been subjected to a rigorous approval and editing process by other scholars in that discipline. This process doesnt apply to popular magazines.

Identifying Search Results & Full-Text Articles:

This is the total number of results found.

An article online in HTML format. This is just the text with no page numbers, page breaks and generally no graphics.

An article online in PDF format. This will look exactly that same as the original article or a photocopy of it, with pictures and page numbers. PDFs are larger file sizes than HTML versions. Keep this in mind when emailing articles to yourself.

Printing PDF Articles:

Its important to remember when you are in a PDF document to use the print icon that is in Adobe, not on the browser. The document wont print if you choose the print option from your Internet browser window.

If you need to print the citation information also, use the link positioned above the Adobe toolbar to obtain this information.

Printing HTML Articles:

Its important to remember when you are in a HTML document to use the print icon that is in EBSCOHost, not on the browser. By using this print icon, EBSCOHost will remove all frames around the article leaving the text to be printed. If you are familiar with the term, EBSCOHost makes the article printer-friendly.

Citation Information:

Title of the Article

Author(s) Journal title Total number of pages Month/Year Volume/issue

There are two ways to add keywords to your search from this screen.
You can add AND, OR, NOT terms into the search box and press Search to retrieve a new results list.

Or you can AND a subject area by clicking on these identified terms. This will automatically add the clicked term to the search box and a new search results list will be retrieved.

Notice we have narrowed the results from 231 to 124 by adding keywords and operators to the Search box and limiting the results to Full Text.

In this search, we dont see the articles that the library has in the building because we limited to only those online. To update these limits, use the options located to the right of the search results.

This note indicates material that the library owns.

You can limit the date range of the articles by moving this slider or inputting the actual dates.

Exercise
Finding Journal Articles Worksheet

Questions??
Please ask me Jane Long 580-774-3030 jane.long@swosu.edu