Education Resources
Articles
List of education journals available at CSUB
Recommended Databases for Education Research
Other Article Indexes & Databases
Physical Education Index via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Coverage includes physical education curricula, sports medicine, dance, sport law, kinesiology, motor learning, recreation, standardized fitness tests, sports equipment, business and marketing, coaching and training, and sport sociology/psychology. Health education and physical therapy are also covered.
Social Sciences Full Text via WilsonWeb
Indexes over 400 core journals in the social sciences, including many journals in psychology. Links to full text where available.
Tests & Measures
Mental Measurements Yearbook via EBSCOhost
Contains fulltext information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the print Mental Measurements Yearbooks.
Provides free information on more than 4,000 commercially available tests, including current publisher information. Test reviews can be purchased online.
California Data Sources
Ed-Data:
Education Data Partnership
California Department of Education site that includes fiscal, demographic, and performance data on K-12 schools:
- State Profile and Reports
- County Profiles and Reports
- District Profiles and Reports
- School Profiles and Reports
California Department of Education site with links to student and school performance data including:
Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR)
Administration of the STAR program. Test results are used for student and school accountability purposes.
Academic Performance Index (API)
Measures the academic performance and growth of schools on a variety of academic measures.
Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)
Requires each state to ensure that all schools and districts make Adequate Yearly Progress based on assessments included in the statewide accountability system.
California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE)
Beginning with the Class of 2006, all public school students will be required to pass the exam to earn a high school diploma.
California Basic Educational Data System (CBEDS)
An annual collection of basic student and staff data. Includes student enrollment, graduates, dropouts, course enrollment, enrollment in alternative education, gifted and talented education, and more.
California School Information Services (CSIS)
Contains information about the funded initiative to transfer student records electronically from participating school districts and to allow state reporting from electronic records.
Language Census (R30-LC)
An annual data collection on students with non-English backgrounds. Includes data pertaining to English Learners (EL) and Fluent-English Proficient (FEP) students and other related information.
RAND California
Click on "Statistics" then select "Education"
U.S. Data Sources
see also Government Reference Sources - Education - United States
National Center for Educational Statistics
Fast Facts
Major Reports
Education Statistics at a Glance
Common page for several of the most important NCES data sources:
Teaching in California
Agencies:
- California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST)
- Subject Matter Examination for Liberal Studies (CSET: Multiple Subjects)
- Subject Matter Examinations for the Single Subject Areas (PRAXIS II, Single Subject Assessments for Teaching, and CSET)
- Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA)
- Preliminary Educational Technology Test (PET)
- Teaching Foundations Pedagogy Tests
- Bilingual, Crosscultural, Language and Academic Development (CLAD/BCLAD) examinations
- SLLA -- School Leaders Licensure Assessment.
- California Education Code
- California Legal Code.
- California Code of Regulations
- California administrative code which includes Title 5, Education.
- see also California Data Sources
- California School Directory
- Search the California School Directory for public, private, and charter schools. The directory includes CDS Codes, addresses and phone numbers of open, pending, and closed/merged schools and districts.
- County Offices with Web Sites
- Links to California County Offices of Education with web sites.
- School Districts with Web Sites
- Links to California School Districts with web sites.
- AERA.NET
- The Research and Education Network's archive of abstracts from the Review of Educational Research, American Education Research Journal, and Educational Researcher. Downloadable Reports. Education, Research and Politics newsletter.
- Education Index
- Sponsored by College View Partners, a private publishing company, this site provides an annotated website guide.
- Education Week on The Web
- The Website of Editorial Projects in Education Inc. The nonprofit organization publishes Education Week, the monthly Teacher Magazine, and Education Week on the Web. Covers local, state, and national news and issues from preschool through the 12th grade. Free registration required.
- Education World
- Search engine and directory to 120,000 education web sites.
- Educator's Reference Desk
- Includes lesson plans, value-added pointers to education information & organizations, and question archives previously at askeric.org.
- Eric Database
- The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), produces a database of journal and non-journal education literature. The new ERIC online system, released September 2004, provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database citations going back to 1966. Full-text non-journal documents are also available (issued 1993-2004), previously through fee-based services only, will be available for free.
- Topics from A to Z
- A contents guide to the US Department of Education's web site.
- Gateway to Educational Materials [U.S. Department of Education]
- Learning Network [New York Times]
- Lesson Plans [Educator's Reference Desk]
- Columbia Education Center's Lesson Plans
- Lesson Plans Library [Discovery.com]
- Sites for teachers Worksheets and lesson plans
- Learning Network [New York Times]
- American Language Review: Online
- Online periodical for language teachers provides public access to some archived issues
- California Department of Education Resources for English Learners
- ESL resources
- National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
- US Department of Education-funded site
- Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages
- Federal Education Department office providing ESL assistance and grants
- Online Directory of ESL Resources
- This directory provides an online reference for the most useful ESL resources primarily for teachers and students.
- TESL Electronic Journal
- Reviewed, scholarly ESL journal
- TESOL [Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages]
- Offers offering info about ESL.
- Early Childhood Education Online
- A website sponsored by the University of Maine with a wide range of resources.
- National Association for the Education of Young Children
- Serves and acts on behalf of the needs, rights and well-being of all young children with primary focus on the provision of educational and developmental services and resources.
- Early Childhood Sites
- A list of early childhood education sites.
- Teachers Pages
- Western Instructional Support Center, Early Childhood Educators' and Family Web Corner
- Children's Literature Web Guide
- Maintained by the University of Calgary.
- Publishes research, reviews, scholarly writings and poetry concerning the inclusion of students with special learning needs in regular classrooms. The Electronic Journal is concerned with inclusion issues at all levels of educational endeavors: research, administrative issues, classroom teaching and exemplary university student work.
- LD Online
- A Web site on learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and other professionals.
- The Office of Special Educational and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
- Supports programs that help educate children and you with disabilities, provides for rehabilitation of youth and adults with disabilities and supports research to improve the lives of individuals with disabilities.
- Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI)
- A collection of Internet accessible information resources related to Special Education.
- Association for Childhood Education International
(ACEI)
- American Forum for Global Education
- American Association for Experimental Education (AEE)
- Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
- Association of California School Administrators (ACSA)
- California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD)
- California Association of Teachers of English (CATE)
- California Council for the Social Studies (CCSS)
- California Curriculum Correlating Council (4Cs)
- California Federation of Teachers (CFT)
- California Math Council (CMC)
- California Music Education Association (CMEA)
- California Reading Association (CRA)
- California Parent Teachers Association.(CaPTA)
- California School Boards Association (CaSBA)
- California School Library Association (CSLA)
- California Science Teachers Association (CSTA)
- Computer Using Educators(CUE)
- California Teachers Association (CTA)
- American Forum for Global Education
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