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Databases
Most relevant subject:
educational research methodology
Relevant descriptors:research methodology
qualitative research
ethnography
field studies
focus groups
interviews
naturalistic observation
participant observation
Off-campus users: In Scholar Preferences (link next to Google Scholar search button) make two changes-- type "Boston University" in Library Links and choose RefWorks next to Bibliography Manager
Provides access to the American Statistics Index and the Index to International Statistics
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
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Subject Headings:
Action Research in Education
Education -- Research
Education -- Research -- Evaluation
Education -- Research -- Methodology
Interviewing
Qualitative Research
Social Sciences -- Research
Social Sciences -- Research -- Methodology
Journals
To determine if we have a journal available electronically, search the
eJournal Locator on PERL's top web page.The best way to find journal articles on a particular topic or by a
particular author is to search appropriate databases (see dtabases listed above).Here's a partial list of journals that are available online about Educational Research:
American Educational Research Journal 2001+
Australian Educational Researcher 2003+
British Educational Research Journal 1990+
Educational Research 1997+
Educational Research (Windsor) 1993+
Educational Research and Reviews 2006+
Educational Research Quarterly 2001+
Educational Researcher 2007+
International Journal of Educational Research 1995+
Issues in Educational Research 1991+
Journal of Educational Research (Washington, D.C.) 1974+
Review of Educational Research 1999+
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research 1998+
The Qualitative Report 1990+
Books
Subject Headings:
Action Research in Education
Education -- Research
Education -- Research -- Evaluation
Education -- Research -- Methodology
Interviewing
Qualitative Research
Social Sciences -- Research
Social Sciences -- Research -- Methodology
Selected List of Recent Titles
Action Research Guidebook: A Four-Stage Process for Educators and School Teams
Education LB1028.24 .S33 2011Comprehension Instruction: Research-Based Best Practices
Mugar LB1050.45 .C69 2008Developing Research Questions: A Guide for Social Scientists
Mugar H62 .W453 2009Doing and Writing Qualitative Research
Mugar H62 .H592 2007Doing Narrative Research
Mugar H61.295 .D65 2008Doing Qualitative Research: A Practical Handbook
Mugar H62 .S472 2010Education, Dialogue and Hermeneutics
Mugar LB14.7 .E392 2011Educational Research in an Age of Accountability
Education Reference LB1028 .S525 2007Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research
Education Reference LB1028 .C742 2008Educational Research: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Approaches
Education Reference LB1028 .J59 2012Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry
Mugar GN345 .M39 2009Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research
Mugar H62 .O94 2011Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children
Education Reference LB1119 .H25 2006How to Conduct Survey Research : A Guidebook for Schools
Education LB2823 .W497 2008Implementing the Findings of Research : Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge and Practice
Mugar LB1028 .I424 2008Inquiry as Stance: Practitioner Research for the Next Generation
Education LB1028.24 .C62 2009Institutional Research : More than Just Data
Mugar LB2300 .N48 no. 14 (2008)Integrating Teaching, Learning, and Action Research: Enhancing Instruction in the K-12 Classroom
Education LB1028.24 .S87 2010Interviewing Clients across Cultures : A Practitioner's Guide
Mugar BF637.I5 F67 2008Interviewing Experts
Mugar BF637.I5 I57 2009Interviewing for Education and Social Science Research: The Gateway Approach
Education LB1028 .M368 2009Interviews in Qualitative Research
Mugar H61.28 .K56 2010Introduction to Qualitative Research Synthesis: Managing the Information Explosion in Social Science Research
Mugar H62 .M23583 2010Learning Research as a Human Science
Mugar LB5 .E95 2010 pt. 1Method and Meaning in Polls and Surveys
Mugar HN29 .S334 2008Methodological Dilemma : Creative, critical, and collaborative approaches to qualitative research
Mugar H61 .M49194 2008Methods Matter: Improving Causal Inference in Educational and Social Science Research
Mugar LB1028 .M86 2011Mobile Methods
Mugar H62 .M537 2011A Most Human Enterprise: Controversies in the Social Sciences
Mugar H62.5 .U5 G73 2010On Critically Conscious Research : Approaches to language and literacy research
Mugar LB1028.25.U6 O53 2008Performing Qualitative Cross-Cultural Research
Mugar GN345.7 .L53 2010Politics of Inquiry: Education Research and the "Culture of Science"
Mugar LB1028 .B267 2009The Qualitative Dissertation: A Guide for Students and Faculty
Education Reference LB2369 .P48 2009Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence
Mugar H62 .Q347 2008Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire: Toward a New Paradigm Dialogue
Mugar H62.5.U5 D397 2009Qualitative Manifesto: A Call to Arms
Mugar HM585 .D46 2010Qualitative Research: A Guide to Design and Implementation
Mugar LB1028 .M396 2009Qualitative Research : Good Decision Making Through Understanding People, Cultures and Markets
Pardee HF5415.2 .K36 2009Qualitative Research for Education: An Introduction to Theory and Methods
Education LB1028 .B56 2007Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences
Mugar H61 .B4715 2007Quantitative Research Methods for Professionals
Education HA29 .V58 2007Recording Culture : Audio Documentary and the Ethnographic Experience
Mugar GN348 .M35 2009Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research
Mugar B105.R27 A48 2009Research Design : Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches
Mugar H62 .C6963 2009Research Methods for the Social Sciences
Mugar H61 .W415 2007Research Methods Knowledge Base
Education Reference Q180.55 .M4 T76 2007Reviewer's Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
Mugar H62 .R466 2010SAGE Handbook of Mixed Methods in Social and Behavioral Research
Mugar Reference H62 .T244 2010SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods
Mugar ZA4228 .S24 2008SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology
Mugar BF76.5 .S23 2008Science of Qualitative Research
Mugar H62 .P223 2011Short Guide to Action Research
Mugar LB1028.24 J65 2008Teacher Research: Stories of Learning and Growing
Education LB1028.24 .T39 2007Undertaking Educational Challenges in the 21st Century: Research from the Field
Mugar LA1501 .U475 2008A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Qualitative Research
Mugar H62 .S4725 2007What Counts as Evidence in Educational Settings? : Rethinking Equity, Diversity, and Reform in the 21st Century
Mugar LB1028 .R43 V. 34 2010
U.S. Government Data Sources
Federal
National Center for Health Statistics
United States Department of Education - Research & Statistics
Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Digest of Education Statistics
State
Massachusetts Department of Education
Non U.S. Government Produced Data Sources
American Statistics Index
Mugar Reference Z7554.U5 A46 (1973+)Also online via Lexis Nexis Statistical
Eurostat
Statistical Office of the European Communities. Gathers and analyses figures from the different European statistics offices to provide comparable data to the European Institutions so they can implement and analyze Community policies.Eurydice
An information network about education in Europe, including a database about European school systems.Index to International Statistics
Mugar Reference Z7552 .I53 (1983+)Also online via Lexis Nexis Statisitical
Population Reference Bureau
Worldwide data and analyses about population and healthSocial Science Data Analysis Network
Demographic Media about U.S. Census data (e.g., DataCounts).Source OECD
OECD's Online Library of Statistical Databases, Books and Periodicals. See Books on Education.
Research Centers
American Education Research Association
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Center for Applied Linguistics
Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE)
Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA)
Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (CTP)
Common Core of Data: Information on Public Schools and School Districts in the United States
Consortium for Policy Research in Education
Consortium on Chicago School Research
Growing Knowledge: The Evolution of Research
Harvard Family Research Project
National Center for Early Development and Learning (NCEDL)
National Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT)
National Research & Development Center on English Learning & Achievement (CELA)
Research Reports from The National Research and Development Centers
Help
Contact Dan Benedetti, Education Librarian, or the Ask-a-Librarian service at BU.