Education Databases
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ERIC : Education Resources Information Center This link opens in a new windowUse to find education-related materials in all aspects of education research and practice. Contains full-text articles and abstracts, research reports, surveys, curriculum and teaching guides and instructional materials, and reports from the largest collection of education material sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.
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Education Full Text This link opens in a new windowUse to find resources in the field of education, covering all levels of education from early childhood to higher education plus multilingual education, health education and testing. Contains indexes and abstracts of journal articles, monographs, and yearbooks. Provides full text access to selected education journals.
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Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new windowUse to find information for educators, professional librarians and education researchers. Contains abstracts and full-text articles from education journals and reports.
Limiting to Practitioner Articles
Tips for limiting to practitioner articles
- Use the search worksheet on this page to search for terms and phrases that address practical hands-on techniques that can be used in the K-12 classroom (e.g. teaching methods)
- Use the database limiters to limit results to resources to practitioner articles.
- In ERIC, you can limit the intended audience to teachers and practitioner.
- In Education Full-Text (HW Wilson), limit to publication type, trade magazine. See screenshots.
- When you find relevant articles, note the subjects and keywords that are used in that article.
Search Strategy Worksheet
Search Strategy Builder
The Search Strategy Builder is a tool designed to teach you how to create a search string using Boolean logic. While it is not a database and is not designed to input a search, you should be able to cut and paste the results into most databases’ search boxes.
Now copy and paste the above Search Strategy into a database search box.
The Search Strategy Builder was developed by the University of Arizona Libraries(CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).