Assessment
You will find that there are several subject headings that can be used for assessment and evaluation in education. Note that these are for SUBJECT searchs (which is more accurate and specific in many cases), not KEYWORD. The key is to find the terms used by the various databases you use. Following are some broad subjects to search; to narrow your results add specifics, such as the subject you're assessing (math or science, for instance) or grade level.
Voyager Online Catalog (books & journal titles):
- Academic achievement--United States
- Competency-based education
- Curriculum-based assessment
- Curriculum evaluation
- Educational tests and measurements --United States
- Grading and marking (Students)
- School improvement programs --United States
- Teacher effectiveness --United States
Journal Databases (articles): Keyword searching to start is fine, but pay attention to the subject headings used to categorize the articles that look best to you.
Credible websites:This bibliography of education websites for grades K-12 includes sections on lesson planning & curriculum, standards, and assessment.
Check out this guide for tips on doing education research, including tips on using the online catalog to find books and reference materials. If you're not sure what a literature review looks like, there's a good example here. In addition, the PowerPoint presentation used in our library session can be found here.
Finding Education Articles and Journals
The library provides you with access to several databases specific to the field of education. General databases such as Academic Search Elite may also prove useful. Each database uses its own subject terms so the keywords that create a successful search in one database may not work in another. Be ready with synonyms and use the database thesaurus to check your terms for the most accurate, successful searches.
Education Research Complete: We just subscribed to a new EBSCO database that is the world's largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals. The database covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues, provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,730 journals and contains full text for nearly 830 journals.
- Education Full-Text: Education Full Text brings you comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Full text of articles cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, make this a great source for research.
- ERIC (EBSCO): ERIC contains indexes and abstracts from education and education-related journals and from professional papers, reports, and documents. Journal articles have an “EJ number” and documents have an "ED number.”
- Academic Search Elite: Academic Search Elite, an EBSCO database, is a general academic index that indexes almost 3,000 magazines and journals from every academic discipline and provides the full-text of more than 1,200.This is also an EBSCO product, so looks very similar to ERIC, but it searches different journals and uses different subject headings. These subject heading can be explored in the thesaurus, which works the same as in ERIC.
