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Subject Guide - Education

Compiled by Ellen Willis, Education Librarian Liaison. Updated 2006

Selected Reference Books

REF L901 .C619 2002-2003 Chronicle Four-Year College Databook, 2002-2003.

REF L 901 .G87 2002-2003 Chronicle Two-Year College Databook, 2002-2003

REF L901 .M58 1996 The Multicultural Student's Guide to Colleges

REF L 901 .P448 2007 2 Year Colleges

REF LA226 .C685 2004 College Blue Book

REF LB 15. E 47 2003 Encyclopedia of Education

REF LB15 .E48 1992 Encyclopedia of Educational Research

REF LB 17. U54 2001 Encyclopedia of American Education

FTLC Ref LB1051 .M3947 2002 The Promise of Educational Psychology

FTLC Ref LB 1043.5 .C52 2004 Graphics for Learning: Proven Guidelines for Planning, Designing, and Evaluating Visuals in Training Materials

 

Selected Circulating Books

HD31 .B 626 2002 Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

LB 2331 .W39 2002 Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice

FTLC LB 2331.32.G7 M35 2003 The Academic Quality Handbook: Enhancing Higher Education in Universities and Further Education Colleges

FTLC LB 2332.72 .A34 2005 Adjunct Faculty in Community College: An Academic Administrator's Guide to Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Great Teachers

FTLC LB 1025.3 .I57 1997 Inspiring Teaching: Carnegie Professors of the Year speak

FTLC LB 2822.75 .A573 2005 Alternative Strategies for Evaluating Student Learning

FTLC LB 3063 .S74 2005 Introduction to Rubrics: An Assessment Tool to Save Grading Time, Convey Effective Feedback, and Promote Student Learning

FTLC LB 41 .S293 2004 Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own

FTLC LB 2822.75 .A573 2005 Alternative Strategies for Evaluating Student Learning

FTLC LB 2822.75 .A44 2004 Assessing Academic Programs in Higher Education

FTLC LB 2331.7 .B83 2004 Building Faculty Learning Communities

FTLC LB1 032 .B318 2005 Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty

FTLC LB 1775 .P25 1998 The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a
Teacher's Life

FTLC RT 4 .K37 2002 Credentials, Curriculum, and Access: The Debate over Nurse Preparation

FTLC LB 1060 .C45 2004 Decoding the Disciplines: Helping Students Learn Disciplinary Ways of Thinking

LC 1099.3 .W56 2003 Diversity and Motivation: Culturally Responsive Teaching

FTLC LC 212.2 .H68 1999 We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools

 

Full-Text Books Online

Encyclopedia of Education    |   Off-Campus Access
Articles dealing with historical, philosophical and theoretical aspects of education.

NetLibrary
This database includes access to such titles as Computers, Curriculum, and Cultural Change, Creative Writing and the New Humanities, Critical Social Issues in American Education, Learner-centered Theory and Practice in Distance Education,Learning, Curriculum and Employability in Higher Education,  Learning Together Online, Performance Theories in Education, Matter of Trust, The Synchronous Trainer's Survival Guide

 

Print Magazines in Kiefer Library

Chronicle of Higher Education
Community College Journal
Community College Journal of Research & Practice
Community College Review
Community College Week
Department Chair
Higher Educational Abstracts
International Journal of E Learning

The Library’s subscriptions to magazines that are of interest to our Education students are primarily in electronic format. Full-text articles are available in electronic formats through online databases. (see below)

 

Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Article Databases or Online Periodicals

Academic Leader (contact librarian or FTLC staff for off-campus access password)

Academic Search Premier  |  Off-Campus Access
Magazine, periodical, journal and newspaper articles, in both full-text and citation format.

American Education Research Association

College Source College Catalogs | Off-Campus Access
Virtual library of college catalogs in full cover-to-cover, original page format with 2-year, 4-year, graduate, professional and international schools.

Education Journals and Newsletters Available on the Internet

Full-Text Education Journals available Online

LexisNexis     |     Off-Campus Access
Newspaper and periodical articles, laws, court decisions, and statistical data.
Full-text documents from news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications.

On-line Classroom (contact librarian or FTLC staff for off-campus access password)

Proquest Research Library  |  Off-Campus Access
Magazine, periodical, journal and newspaper articles, in both full-text and citation format. 

The Teaching Professor  (contact librarian or FTLC staff for off- campus access password) 

 

Other Library Materials

Video/DVD Check with Media Services
FTLC Ref HD62.15 .Q35 1991 VHS Quality ... or Else
FTLC LB2331 .L43 1998 VHS The Learning Paradigm

 

Searching the Library Catalog

The above titles are just a few of the resources available for you. The Kiefer Library Catalog, http://tlc.aims.edu/ provides access to resources available at Aims Community College. Use the following subjects (Library of Congress) and keywords to search in the library catalog:

assessment, adult education, colleges, computer-assisted instruction, continuing education, educational technology, education, learning, new directions for institutional research, new directions for community colleges, new directions for higher education, teachers, teaching.

 

Selected Web Resources

Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession
Educator’s Reference Desk
EduQuery
Teacher – Ed.gov
Education World
ERIC-Educational Resources Information Center
ERIC Database Descriptors

 

Selected Statistical Resources

American Association of Community Colleges Statistics
Center for Community College Policy
National Center for Education Statistics
National Library of Education Sciences
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
U.S. Department of Education
White House Social Statistics Briefing Room
World Bank Data and Statistics

 

Selected Online Images and Other Media

ED.gov. Press Room

Other Library Catalogs

Colorado State University
Loveland Public Library
Prospector: Colorado Unified Catalog
University of Northern College Library Catalog
Weld Library District
Windsor-Severance Library Distric

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