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Research in the Classroom
Welcome to the research guide for Classroom Research and Institutional Effectiveness. This guide contains resources from the library to assist you with your research projects and make your studies a success.
On this page, find course information and a quick list of resources to get you started.
- Curriculum Standards
Look up curriculum standards by state, grade, and subject, a service from EBSCO and Certica Solutions.
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Best Bets
The following can help you start your research.
See the Library Resources tab for more extensive lists of suggested materials.
Databases
- Education Source
- Why search here? This is one of our most important collections for the field of education.
- What’s included? This collection contains the full text of over 1,800 journals and 550 books. It also contains citations and abstracts for almost 3,000 additional journals and information on 100,000 educational tests.
- ERIC
- Why search here? This is one of the most important databases for the field of education.
- What’s included? This database contains almost two million records and more than 500,000 full-text documents, including journal articles, dissertations, and conference proceedings. Many of the hosted documents are not published anywhere else.
- Educational Researcher
It contains scholarly articles of general significance to the educational research community from a wide range of disciplines.
- Review of Educational Research
Review of Educational Research (RER) publishes critical, integrative reviews of research literature bearing on education.
Research Methods in Education by Call Number: eBookISBN: 0203224345Publication Date:The authors have thoroughly updated the fourth edition and included more text on current developments in research practice, action research, developments in ICT, questionnaire design, ethnographic research, conducting needs analysis, constructing and using tests, observational methods, reliability and validity, ethical issues, and curriculum research.
Scientific Research in Education by Call Number: eBookISBN: 030950953XPublication Date:Scientific Research in Education describes the similarities and differences between scientific inquiry in education and scientific inquiry in other fields and disciplines and provides a number of examples to illustrate these ideas. Its main argument is that all scientific endeavors share a common set of principles, and that each field—including education research—develops a specialization that accounts for the particulars of what is being studied.
Education at Northwestern
These links will take you to official NWOSU university pages.
- School of Education
The School of Education offers a variety of undergraduate majors and a master of counseling psychology (MCP), a master of general psychology, and a master of education (M.Ed.) at the graduate level.
- Division of Education
The Division of Education is committed to helping teacher education candidates, students, and educators meet the high standards expected of higher education institutions and public/private schools today.
- Graduate Studies
If you are interested in furthering your higher education at Northwestern, we offer master’s degree programs in education, counseling psychology, general psychology, and American studies—and one doctorate program in Nursing Practice (BSN to DNP online).
- Master of Education
The master of education degrees are available to any individual who holds a baccalaureate degree in the field of education from an accredited institution and who has a current teaching certificate.