EAF 508: Applied Education Research

Selected Scholarly Journals

American Educational Research Journal

Education and Urban Society

Educational Administration Quarterly

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

Educational Researcher

Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk

Preventing School Failure

Review of Educational Research

Urban Education

Selected Practitioner-Oriented Periodicals

American School Board Journal 

Education Next (published by the Hoover Institute at Stanford) 

Education Week  

Educational Leadership  

Phi Delta Kappan 

School Administrator 

Selected Databases

ERIC (EBSCO)

Academic Search Premier (note that this database is interdisciplinary)

Selected Subject Headings to use in the Library Catalog (for books)

School Improvement Programs

Educational Change

School Management and Organization

Educational Innovations

Educational Accountability

Educational Leadership

Educational Evaluation

School Environment

Ability Grouping in Education

Selected Reference Sources

Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration (2007)

Encyclopedia of Evaluation (2007)

Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics (2007)

Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education (2009)

Handbook of Research on Literacy in Technology at the K-12 Level (2006)

Handbook of Research Design in Mathematics and Science Education (2000)

Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education

Selected Web Sites

Center on Innovation & Improvement

Education Week
blog: Bridging Differences with Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch
blog: LeaderTalk

ETS (Educational Testing Service)
note the section for Research
note the section "Education Topics"

National Center for Education Statistics

Report: School Turnarounds: Actions and Results

Stanford University School Redesign Network

Interlibrary Loan

• Only use Interlibrary Loan for books that are NOT available in any of the libraries in our consortium.
• Before requesting articles via Interlibrary Loan, make sure that Milner does not provide electronic access.  If you have the citation for an article, use the Citation Linker.  If you do not have a complete citation, try using Milner's list of E-Journals.
• If you have determined the Milner cannot provide electronic access for a journal article, use Interlibrary Loan.  In the "Notes" box, indicate that your are a distance education student taking graduate courses.