Education

DATABASES

Description: Academic Search Complete features thousands of full-text journals. This scholarly collection offers coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study including: anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields. (Source: vendor website)

Date Coverage: full-text, 1975 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost

ERIC (via EBSCOhost) (more info)

Description: This resource, funded by the U.S. Department of Education and produced by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), provides access to education literature and resources. It is the largest database of materials for education in the world. It contains more than 1.3 million records of journal articles and full text documents going back to 1966.

Date Coverage: 1966 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost

RELATED DATABASES

Child Development & Adolescent Studies (more info)

Description: Child Development & Adolescent Studies is a source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. This database includes all of the issues of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography from 1927 - 2001 previously published by the Society for Research in Child Development, plus new coverage on child rights and welfare issues. (Source: vendor website)

Date Coverage: 1927 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost

CQ Researcher Online (more info)

Description: Full-text reports on current and controversial issues shaping our world, with in-depth coverage of political and social issues, such as health, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.

Each single-themed, 12,000-word report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist. The consistent, reader-friendly organization provides researchers with an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources. (Source: Vendor: website)

Vendor: CQ Press

Family & Society Studies Worldwide (more info)

Description: A core resource providing the most comprehensive coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development, and Social Welfare. FSSW covers popular issues and meets the requirements of professionals in all fields of Social Work, Social Science and Family Practice. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, statistical documents, theses & dissertations and other sources. (Source: vendor website)

Date Coverage: 1970 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (more info)

Description: The Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 20000 contemporary testing instruments. It includes descriptions and reviews of testing instruments in psychology, education, business, and leadership. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive listing of all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Each entry includes the test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). Tests in Print is directly linked to the test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) series.

Date Coverage: 1938 -
Note: Earlier volumes are available in the Library R 016.15 B93
Creator: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
Vendor: EBSCOhost

NoveList K-8 Plus (more info)

Description: NoveList K-8 Plus focuses on reading materials that support the school curriculum, as well as the recreational reading interests of children and students from preschool through middle school. In NoveList K-8 Plus you'll find: fiction and nonfiction titles for children and teens, expert reading recommendations from librarians and school media specialists, connections to curriculum requirements for reading, listening, and writing, read-alikes for every title, author, and series, and a simple and easy to use interface for younger readers.

Date Coverage:
Vendor: EBSCOhost

ProQuest Research Databases (more info)

Description: Access a collection of databases that supports a wide range of general and academic subjects. Many articles are peer reviewed and available in full text. You can search multiple Proquest databases simultaneously, select a specific subject collection, or select an individual database title. By default your search will search multiple databases.

Databases included: ABI INFORM Archive, ABI INFORM Complete, Financial Times, National Newspaper Abstracts, NoticiasFinancieras, ProQuest Asian Business & Reference, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851 - 2006), ProQuest Research Library, Sociological Abstracts (includes Social Services Abstracts), and The Wall Street Journal.
Date Coverage: Indexing: 1971 - date, full-text: 1991 - date, image: 1987 - date
Note: Proquest Historical Databases cannot be searched in combination with the multiple dataases option.
Vendor: ProQuest

PsycARTICLES (more info)

Description: PsycARTICLES is a database of full text peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe and Huber. Topics include general psychology as well as specialized, applied, clinical, and theoretical research. The database includes all materials from the print journals and contains over 150,000 articles from nearly 80 journals published by the APA. To see a list of the journals included, select "Publications" from the database toolbar.

Date Coverage: 1894 - date
Notes: Includes all journal articles, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Many of the journals included in PsycARTICLES from the APA go back to volume 1, issue 1.
Creator: American Psychological Association (APA)
Vendor: EBSCOhost

PsycINFO (more info)

Description: This database is the most comprehensive international database devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains more than 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports. This database also contains information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, sociology, education, technology, pharmacology, anthropology, business, law, and others. Journal coverage includes international material selected from around 2,500 journals in dozens of languages.

Date Coverage: 1887 - date
Creator: American Psychological Association (APA)
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Social Sciences Citation Index (more info)

Description: Social Sciences Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science, is a multidisciplinary database that covers the journal literature from 2,474 of the world's leading social science journals across 50 disciplines. The database provides access to the bibliographic and citation information that researchers, students, and faculy need to find scholarly information, analyze trends and compile research. Researchers may discover a papers influence by linking to other papers that have cited it.

Some of the disciplines covered include: anthropology, political science, history, public health, industrial relations, social issues, information science, social work, law, sociology, linguistics, substance abuse, philosophy, urban studies, psychology, women's studies, and psychiatry. (source: Vendor website)

Date Coverage: 1988 - date
Note: For support, tips & tools access: Web of Science Recorded Training, Additional Training, or Help Files.
Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson Reuters

ENCYCLOPEDIAS & MORE

Credo Reference (more info)

Description: Credo is an online reference service with access to over 500 titles. Credo includes subject-specific dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical data, statistics, quotations, and audio and image files from many different publishers.

Vendor: Credo Publishing

The Cyclopedic Education Dictionary

Education and Technology : An Encyclopedia, 2004
R 371.3303 Ed83

Encyclopedia of Educational Research
R 370.3 En13 1992

Encyclopedia of Special Education

Learning Theories A to Z

World Education Encyclopedia, 2002
R 370.3 W893

TESTS AND MEASURES

Learning Express Library (more info)

Description: Learning Express Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons—students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.

Note: Users must sign in to use this resource

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (more info)

Description: The Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 20000 contemporary testing instruments. It includes descriptions and reviews of testing instruments in psychology, education, business, and leadership. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive listing of all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Each entry includes the test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). Tests in Print is directly linked to the test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) series.

Date Coverage: 1938 -
Note: Earlier volumes are available in the Library R 016.15 B93
Creator: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Test Critiques
R 150.287 T181

To find books on a particular topic or by a particular author or title, select the tab Books & Media on the Library website.

To browse for various Education subjects try:

370 (General Education)
371 (Schools, Teachers and Teaching)
372 (Elementary Education)
372.3 (Computers, Science, Technology, Health)
372.4 (Reading)
372.5 (Creative and Manual Arts)
372.6 (Language Arts)
372.7 (Mathematics)
373 (Middle school, High school)
374 (Adult education)
375 (Curriculum Development)
378 (Higher Education)
379 (Public Education and Policies)

Books & more from the Meredith library & beyond

WorldCat (more info)

Description: WorldCat is a catalog of the collections of thousands of libraries worldwide and includes over a billion records. The database includes bibiographic records for books, dissertations, manuscripts, videos, serial publications, articles, recorded books, music, digital objects, websites and more. WorldCat can serve as an invaluable research tool to facilitate comprehensive searches for resources on a particular subject or by a particular author, allowing you to identify relevant works beyond your local library. Resources not available at your library can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan. Contact the Reference Department if you have any questions about using WorldCat.

Date Coverage: 1200 - date
Vendor: OCLC FirstSearch

WorldCat Local (more info)

Description: WorldCat Local delivers single-search-box access to more than 810 million items from your library and the world's library collections. Search results include multiple formats of materials such as electronic materials, digital items, databases, music, video, maps, journals, theses and print. Items available at Carlyle Campbell Library will display first.

Vendor: OCLC

E-BOOKS

Many books are available electronically. To search for your topic in an e-book: select the Books & Media tab on the Library website, select the e-books link, or use one of the following collections of e-books.

eBook Collection (more info)

Description: eBook Collection from EBSCOhost provides access to full-text scholarly, reference and professional eBooks (electronic books) from leading university, academic and professional publishers. These eBooks are digital versions of print books from a broad range of subject areas and topics. In many cases, the eBook copy is the only copy of the book owned by the library although in some cases a local print copy is also available.

Note: When a user ends a session, or after 30 minutes of inactivity, the copy of the title will be available for others to use. Vendor: EBSCOhost

ebrary (more info)

Description: Search a full text eBook collection that spans many academic subject areas.

MyiLibrary e-books (more info)

Description: MyiLibrary contains over 350 books that can be read online. Books are available on a variety of topics, including language learning, medical, health, history, project management, classic literature, art, criminology and many others.

Vendor: Ingram

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

To search for children's books by topic, author or title select the Books & Media tab on the Library website, select Advanced search and limit your search by Location: Pre K-12 Literature.

You may browse lists of:

Juvenile fiction & nonfiction J
Picture books JE
Motherread books CC MR

TEXTBOOKS K-12

To find NC State Adopted Textbooks select the Books & Media tab on the Library website, select Advanced search and limit your search by Location: Curriculum Materials

To Browse for K-12 Textbooks in a particular subject area try:

CC 01 (Handwriting)	CC 652 (Culinary Skills/Cooking)
CC 02 (Elem. Reading/ Language Arts)	CC 653 (Families)
CC 021 (ESL)	CC 654 (Child Development)
CC 03 (Spelling)	CC 655 (Clothing/Fashion)
CC 11 (Elem. Art)	CC 656 (Food/Nutrition)
CC 14 (Theatre)	CC 657 (Homes/Housing)
CC 15 (Dance)	CC 658 (Life Skills)
CC 21 (French)	CC 71 (Elem. Science)
CC 22 (Latin)	CC 72 (Biology)
CC 23 (Spanish)	CC 73 (Chemistry)
CC 24 (German)	CC 74 (Physical Science)
CC 25 (Russian)	CC 75 (Physics)
CC 31 (Elem. Health)	CC 76 (Anatomy)
CC 32 (MS Health)	CC 77 (Earth Science)
CC 41 (English Comp.)	CC 78 (Environmental Science)
CC 42 (Literature)	CC 81 (Elem. Social Studies)
CC 51 (Elem. Math)	CC 82 (Geography)
CC 52 (Pre-Calculus, Trigonometry, Statistics, Calculus)	CC 825 (North Carolina)
CC 53 (Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1)	CC 83 (U.S. History)
CC 54 (Algebra 2)	CC 84 (U.S. Law)
CC 55 (Basic Math)	CC 85 (World History)
CC 56 (Geometry)	CC 86 (Sociology)
CC 62 (Business Education)	CC 87 (Economics)
CC 63 (Business Education)	CC 88 (American Government)
CC 64 (Career Education)	CC 89 (Psychology)
CC 651 (Child Care)	CC 99 (Civics)
*MU CC 11 (Music) **Located in the Curriculum Materials Collection

Common Core State Standards (more info)

Description: Common Core State Standards in K-12 Mathematics and K-12 English Language Arts.

Common Core State Standards Initiative (more info)

Description: The official website of the Common Core State Standards initiative that outlines the full Common Core standards.

Learn NC

NC LIVE Video Collection (more info)

Description: The NC LIVE Video Collection is a collection of more than 250 high quality documentary and educational video programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation. Chosen by North Carolina librarians for use in supporting education and for general interest, the collection includes programming covering the sciences, US and world history, biography, current events, and the arts, as well as a variety of other subjects. In addition, several educational series for children are included.

North Carolina State-Adopted Textbooks (more info)

Description: This catalog lists the textbooks adopted by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction for use in the public schools. Textbooks are evaluated using criteria that is based on the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. Adopted textbooks are placed on contract for five years.

Website: N.C. Department of Public Instruction

North Carolina Teacher Academy (more info)

Description: The North Carolina Teacher Academy is a professional development program for teachers established and funded by the North Carolina General Assembly. The mission of the Academy is to support continuous learning to the growth of a career teacher by providing quality professional development in the areas of school leadership, instructional methodology, core content, and use of modern technology in order to enrich instruction and enhance student achievement. (from vendor website) Links to Internet based resources for K-12 classroom teachers and educational sites recommended for students and parents.

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North Carolina Standard Course of Study (more info)

Description: The Standard Course of Study includes the curriculum that should be made available to every child in North Carolina's public schools.

Website: N.C. Department of Public Instruction

NoveList Plus (more info)

Description: Readers' advisory service searchable by author, title, series name, and plot. Includes author read-alikes and lists of award-winners.

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Teacher Reference Center (more info)

Description: TRC provides indexing and abstracts for 280 periodicals. In addition, 96% of journals indexed in TRC are peer-reviewed. This index covers the most popular teacher and adminstrator trade journals, periodicals, and books, provides coverage on key education topics such as Assessment, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Science & Mathematics, and more for K-12 Teachers & Librarians.

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (more info)

Description: General interest encyclopedia. Updated annually.

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Kid Search (more info)

Description: Search magazines, newspapers, and books on a variety of topics such as history, science, literature, and current events.

Age Level: Grades 3-12
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Learning Express Library (more info)

Description: Learning Express Library is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons—students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. You'll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.

Note: Users must sign in to use this resource

MAS Complete (more info)

Description: Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for more than 550 popular high school magazines. MAS Complete also provides more than 440 full-text reference books; tens of thousands of biographies; over 107,000 primary source documents; an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags, and color PDFs; and expanded full-text backfiles (back to 1975) for key magazines. Also includes Documents in American History, Magill's Book Reviews and searchable full text for 145 MacMillan books. (Source: vendor website)

Date Coverage: 1975 - date
Age Level: Grades 9-12, Junior College
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Middle Search Plus (more info)

Description: Designed to assist middle and junior high school students in learning how to research current events and information on a wide range of general topics. Includes Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia of Animals, Essential Documents in American History, and CIA World Fact Book.

Age Level: Grades 6-9
Vendor: EBSCOhost

NCpedia (more info)

Description: An online encyclopdeia of North Carolina history and culture. The encyclopedia includes sections on biography and people, business and industry, culture, educationn, geography and environment, government, history and quick facts.

Creator: The State Library of North Carolina

Primary Search (more info)

Description: Full text of more than 80 popular children's magazines designed specifically for elementary school libraries for young readers. Includes Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, World Almanac for Kids, World Almanac of the USA, American Heritage Children's Dictionary, and Essential Documents of American History.

Date Coverage: Indexing, 1984 - date; Full-text, 1990 - date
Age Level: Grades 1-6
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Science Reference Center (more info)

Description: This database includes science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other sources for students. Science Reference Center also provides teachers and librarians with articles correlated to state and national curriculum standards. Topics covered include biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

Age Level: Grades: 6-12
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Searchasaurus (more info)

Description: Searchasaurus is a colorful and fun search interface intended for elementary and middle school students. Search American Heritage Children's Dictionary, Encyclopedia of Animals, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, Image Collections, Middle Search Plus, and Primary Search.

Age Level: Grades 1-8
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Student Research Center (more info)

Description: Magazines, newspapers, biographies, country reports, images, and encyclopedias on health, science, literature, current events, history, and more.

Age Level: Grades 1-12
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Topic Search (more info)

Description: A current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms including controversial opinions and viewpoints.

Age Level: Grades 6-12
Vendor: EBSCOhost

AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner – Lesson Plan Database

Best Websites for Teaching and Learning

Ed.gov - Topics from A to Z

Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

EDSITEment (more info)

Description: Provides links to some of the best websites in the humanities, many of which feature primary sources. The website has a section with lesson plans that offers models for using EDSITEment websites in the classroom

Website: National Endowment for the Humanities

The Gateway to 21st Century Skills

PBS Teachers

National Geographic Lesson Plans

Thinkfinity

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

Children's Literature Web Guide

Carol Hurst's Children Literature Site

Caldecott Award Winners

Coretta Scott King Award Winners

Newbery Award Winners

STATISTICS

National Center for Education Statistics

North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute

NCES Reports (more info)

Description: Includes:The Digest of Eduation Statistics, The Condition of Education, Education Statistics Quarterly, and other NCES reports.

Website: National Center for Education Statistics

World Data on Education

ASSOCIATIONS

National Education Association

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

U.S. Charter Schools.org

Public Schools of North Carolina

EDUCATIONAL DIRECTORIES

American School Directory

Peterson's: Your Comprehensive Guide to College Information