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Background information

International handbook of research on teachers' beliefs / edited by Helenrose Fives and Michele Gregoire Gill.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2840 .I57 2015
Handbook of research on science education. Volume II / edited by Norman G. Lederman, Sandra K. Abell.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » Q181 .H1492 2014
Handbook of complementary methods in education research / edited by Judith L. Green, Gregory Camilli, Patricia B. Elmore, with Audra Skukauskaitė and Elizabeth Grace.
Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ; Washington, D.C. : Published for the American Educational Research Association, 2006.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .C577 2006
The handbook of institutional research / [edited by] Richard D. Howard, Gerald W. McLaughlin, William E. Knight.
1st ed. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2326.3 .H36 2012
"Institutional research is more relevant today than ever before as growing pressures for improved student learning and increased institutional accountability motivate higher education to effectively use ever-expanding data and information resources."
Handbook of qualitative research in education / edited by Sara Delamont with assistance from Angela Jones.
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .H314 2012
Handbook of quantitative methods for educational research / edited by Timothy Teo, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .H314 2013
Handbook of research on learning and instruction / edited by Richard E. Mayer and Patricia A. Alexander.
New York : Routledge, 2011.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LB1060 .H34575 2011
Handbook of research on schools, schooling, and human development / edited by Judith L. Meece, Jacquelynne S. Eccles.
New York : Routledge, 2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1507 .H255 2010
Handbook of research on teaching / edited by Virginia Richardson.
4th ed. Washington, D.C. : American Educational Research Association., 2001.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LB1028 .H315 2001
The handbook of the evolving research of transformative learning based on the learning activities survey / Kathleen P. King.
10th anniversary ed. Charlotte, NC : IAP, Information Age Pub., c2009.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1100 .K56 2009
The Sage handbook for research in education : pursuing ideas as the keystone of exemplary inquiry / edited by Clifton F. Conrad, Ronald C. Serlin.
2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2011.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .S14 2011
"The Handbook has been re-conceptualized into three parts: I. Exploring Ideas: Embracing Inquiry and the Craft of Framing Meaningful Problems; II Pursuing and Sharing Ideas: The Design and Conduct of Inquiry and the Communication of Results; and III. Engaging Ideas: Reflections of Scholars."
The SAGE handbook of educational action research / edited by Susan E. Noffke and Bridget Somekh.
Los Angeles : SAGE, 2009.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028.24 .S24 2009
The Sage handbook of innovation in social research methods / edited by Malcolm Williams and W. Paul Vogt.
Los Angeles : SAGE, 2011.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » H62 .S2746 2011
Part 1: The Social Context of Research; Part 2: Design and Data Collection; Part 3: Integrating the Analysis of New Data Types; Part 4: Sampling, Inference and Measurement. "This Handbook, edited by internationally recognized scholars, provides a comprehensive, pitch perfect critical assessment of the field."
The SAGE handbook of qualitative research / edited by Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln.
4th ed. Los Angeles : SAGE, c2011.
Green Library » Stacks » H62 .H2455 2011

New books

Methodologies for researching cultural diversity in education : international perspectives / edited by Geri Smyth and Ninetta Santoro.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC3719 .M48 2015
Practice-oriented.
Writing and doing action research / Jean McNiff.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028.24 .M36 2014
Practice-oriented.
Understanding education and educational research / Paul Smeyers (University of Ghent), Richard Smith (University of Durham, UK).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .S528 2014
New visions of collective achievement : the cross-generational schooling experiences of African American males / Darrell Cleveland Hucks ; foreword by Suzanne C. Carothers.
Rotterdam [Netherlands] ; Boston : Sense Publishers, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2731 .H83 2014
Implementation fidelity in education research : designer and evaluator considerations / edited Coby V. Meyers and W. Christopher Brandt.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .I41 2015
Higher education and community-based research : creating a global vision / edited by Ronaldo Munck, Lorraine McIlrath, Budd Hall, and Rajesh Tandon.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC237 .H54 2014
Education policy research : design and practice at a time of rapid reform / edited by Helen M. Gunter, David Hall and Colin Mills.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .E259 2014
Ethics and education research / Rachel Brooks, Kitty te Riele and Meg Maguire.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .B75 2014
Success with your early years research project / Rosie Walker and Carla Solvason.
1st ed.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1139.225 .W35 2014
Interrogating (hi)stories : establishing the educational relevance of spiritual development through critical historiography / Audrey Lingley.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .L48 2014
The nurturing of new educational researchers : dialogues and debates / edited by María de Ibarrola and Lorin W. Anderson.
Rotterdam ; Boston : Sense, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .N87 2014
The reflective educator's guide to classroom research : learning to teach and teaching to learn through practitioner inquiry / Nancy Fichtman Dana, Diane Yendol-Hoppey.
3rd ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028.24 .D36 2014
Online distance education : towards a research agenda / edited by Olaf Zawacki-Richter and Terry Anderson.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5803 .C65 O55 2014
Engaging youth in schools : evidence-based models to guide future innovations / David J. Shernoff, Janine Bempechat, editors.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » 370.6 .N28 V.113:PT.1
Using case study in education research / Lorna Hamilton & Connie Corbett-Whittier.
Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1029 .C37 H36 2013
From the ivory tower to the schoolhouse : how scholarship becomes common knowledge in education / Jack Schneider.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028.25 .U6 S36 2014
Understanding education research : a guide to critical reading / Gary Shank, Launcelot Brown, Janice Pringle.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .S4395 2014
Doing educational research in rural settings : methodological issues, international perspectives and practical solutions / edited by Simone White and Michael Corbett.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .D593 2014
Qualitative research in education / Liz Atkins and Susan Wallace.
London ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .A885 2012
Higher education finance research : policy, politics, and practice / by Mary P. McKeown-Moak (Moak, Casey & Associates) and Christopher M. Mullin (Board of Governors of the State University System of Florida).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2342 .M374 2014
Innovation and teaching technologies : new directions in research, practice and policy / Marta Peris-Ortiz, Fernando J. Garrigós-Simón, Ignacio Gil Pechuán, editors.
Cham : Springer, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1027 .I47 2014
Areas of vocational education research / Zhiqun Zhao, Felix Rauner, editors.
Heidelberg ; New York : Springer, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1043 .A67 2014
Using research evidence in education : from the schoolhouse door to Capitol Hill / Kara S. Finnigan, Alan J. Daly, editors.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .U85 2014
Cambridge handbook of engineering education research / edited by Aditya Johri, Virginia Polytech Institute and State University ; Barbara M. Olds, Colorado School of Mines and National Science Foundation.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » T65 .C345 2014
Theory and method in higher education research II / edited by Jeroen Huisman, Malcolm Tight.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2326.3 .T56 2014
Educational research : material culture and its representation / Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe, editors.
Cham ; New York : Springer, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .E38 2014
Researching education with marginalized communities / Mike Danaher, Central Queensland University, Australia; Janet Cook, Central Queensland Institute of Technical and Further Education, Australia; Geoff Danaher, formerly Central Queensland University, Australia; Phyllida Coombes, formerly Central Queensland University, Australia; and Patrick Alan Danaher, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC4099 .D35 2013
Foundations of education research : understanding theoretical components / Joy Egbert and Sherry Sanden.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .E268 2014
Technology teachers as researchers : philosophical and empirical technology education studies in the Swedish TUFF Research School / edited by Inga-Britt Skogh and Marc J. De Vries.
Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, c2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » T139 .T435 2013
Partnerships in education research : creating knowledge that matters / Michael Anderson and Kelly Freebody.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .A477 2014

Journals

Review of educational research.
[Washington] : American Educational Research Association,
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » 370.5 .R451 V.78:NO.2-4 2008
Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education / by the Yearbook Committee and associated contributors.
Chicago, Ill. : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press,
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » 370.6 .N28

Databases

Education databases

ERIC [electronic resource] : the educational resources information center.
[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.
Education full text [electronic resource].
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996 and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.
Education week American education news site of record [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Editorial Projects in Education, Inc.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Teachers College record book reviews [electronic resource].
Birmingham, AL : Teachers College Record
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
"Teachers College Record Book Reviews provides comprehensive reviews of the leading books in education and educational research by major scholars in these fields. "

Related databases

Cabell's directory of publishing opportunities in educational psychology and administration.
Beaumont, Tex. : Cabell Pub. Co., c2002-
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » Z286 .E3 C325 ED.8:V.2 2007/2008
For each journal listed Cabell's includes publishing information such as Content, Review Process, Publication Information, Manuscript Specifications, and Guidelines.

Websites

American Educational Research Association (AERA)

"The American Educational Research Association (AERA), founded in 1916, is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results."

Regional Educational Laboratory Program

"The Regional Educational Laboratory Program (REL) consists of a network of ten laboratories that serve the educational needs of a designated region by providing access to high quality scientifically valid education research through applied research and development projects, studies, and other related technical assistance activities."