LibGuides: Education Research: Education Resources

Education Databses

Children's Literature Review This link opens in a new window
Presents full text literary criticism on writers and illustrators for children and young adults.
Education Today This link opens in a new window
Contains Issues, Policies & Practices in two volumes.
Educator's Reference Complete (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Quickly access articles from scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals. Includes Topic Finder, Subject Guide Search, and Publication Search.
ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. .
The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
ERIC Thesaurus This link opens in a new window
A list of terms representing research topics in the field of education. Descriptors from the ERIC Thesaurus are assigned to every document in the ERIC digital library to describe its subject content. Terms in the ERIC Thesaurus represent the vocabulary used in the documents that comprise the ERIC digital library collection.
MAS Reference eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for high school students. Topics include biography, history, careers, language arts, literature, government, health, math, science, current events, and social-emotional health.
MAS Ultra This link opens in a new window
Contains full text of nearly 500 popular, high school magazines. It also provides full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents and an Image Collection of photos, maps & flags.
Color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles from 1975 to present. This database is designed specifically for high school libraries.
Primary Search This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for more than 70 popular magazines for elementary school research as far back as 1990. Articles included are assigned Lexile indicators.
Primary Search Reference eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects for primary school students. Topics include social studies, history, language arts, geography, culture, math, and science.
ProQuest Dissertations This link opens in a new window
The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses..
The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Full Text includes millions of searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.

OpenAccess Resources

ERIC.gov This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
ERIC is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information.
HHMI BioInteractive This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
Multimedia resources, including apps, animations, videos, interactives, and virtual labs. Video resources range from a series of short films to lectures given by Nobel-prize winners, all supplemented by teacher guides and classroom activities.
Many of the resources are targeted to a high school and undergraduate audience but can be easily adapted to different levels of instruction. They can be used in a flipped, blended, or traditional classroom.
MDPI This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
Provides diverse, peer-reviewed, open access journals ensuring the latest research is freely available and all content is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). Content is available to everyone free of charge.

Web Resources

Accuracy in Academia
Accuracy in Academia, a non-profit research group based in Washington, D. C., wants schools to return to their traditional mission-the quest for truth. To promote this goal, AIA documents and publicizes political bias in education in Campus Report, its monthly newsletter. CR articles focus on:

The use of classroom and/or university resources to indoctrinate students;
Discrimination against students, faculty or administrators based on political or academic beliefs; and
Campus violations of free speech.
more...less...
CR articles focus on:
The use of classroom and/or university resources to indoctrinate students;
Discrimination against students, faculty or administrators based on political or academic beliefs; and
Campus violations of free speech.

Education Resources from the Library of Congress This link opens in a new window
The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections.

Elementary Schools
Thousands of public elementary schools and private elementary schools throughout America are listed for your review.
more...less...
The list is broken down by city, elementary school districts, zip codes, or counties. The list also contains all public elementary schools and private elementary schools within the country. Statistics such as enrollment, the ratio of students to teachers are included as well as elementary school addresses, phone numbers, and other contact information.
Guided Reading Leveling Resource Chart
Use the grid to shop by Guided Reading, Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA), and Lexile Levels provided by Scholastic Inc.
more...less...
The chart includes Lexile Level recommendations and may also be used as a general leveling guide

Institute of Education Sciences This link opens in a new window
The statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education whose mission is to provide scientific evidence on which to ground education practice and policy and to share this information in formats that are useful and accessible to educators, parents, policymakers, researchers, and the public.
IES conducts six broad types of work that addresses school readiness and education from infancy through adulthood and includes special populations such as English Learners and students with disabilities.
IPEDS This link opens in a new window
Access IPEDS data submitted to NCES through the data tools or download the data to conduct your research. Includes Data Trends, Institutional information, Data Feedback, Institutional Comparisons, and Survey Data.

Lexile Framework for Reading: Matching Readers with Texts.
Lexile measures provide a scientific approach for matching students with ability-appropriate texts.
more...less...
Lexile measures help differentiate instruction and monitor growth in reading, putting student on the path to success in school, college and career
MERLOT II
Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching.
more...less...
The MERLOT collection consists of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder web-pages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience.

OER Commons This link opens in a new window
A public digital library of open educational resources. Explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum.
PBS Newshour Extra This link opens in a new window
News for Students and Teacher Resources 7–12 Grade Level. Educators can find lesson plans and an active teacher community.
Find Lesson Plans, Articles, Student Voices and Video.

Reference Librarian

Janet "Miss T." Tillman

Email Me

Contact:

Robert L. Powell Library
The Master's University
21726 Placerita Canyon. Rd.
Santa Clarita, CA 91321

1.661.362.2201

Subjects: About the Library, Biblical Counseling, Biblical Studies, Business, Communication, Copyright Law, Education, Fine Arts, Global Outreach, History, Humanities, Kinesiology, Law & Legislation, Literature, Mathematics, Politics & International Relations, Research, Sciences, TMS