Education Guide

Databases (articles)

Course/Program Guides

• ED 231/EDG 576/EDG 876 Children’s Literature
• EDG/EFL 515 Research Methods
• EDG LICI Doctoral Program Guide
• Masters SPED Program Guide
• Masters Child/Family Life Program Guide
• Search CUW Graduate Education Thesis & Projects

Looking for some suggestions for learning activities and lesson plans? Many museums, book publishers, and non-profits offer free materials for teachers on their website.

• The Learning Network (New York Times)
• History Lesson Plans & Class Materials (Library of Congress)
• Wisconsin History (Wisconsin Historical Society)
• Language Arts Lessons & Ideas (Scholastic)
• LitCharts (Book guides, poetry guides, Shakespeare)
• National Center for Case Studies Teaching Science (grade 6 & up)
• Science Teaching Resources from NAST (K-12)
• Read Write Think (K-12 Lesson plans, learning objectives, Apps, videos)
• Vocabulary.com (vocabulary lists for books & current events)

Use these search techniques to locate Primary Research inside databases.

1. Add the following row of keywords to your search: (methods AND results) OR methodology OR “case study” OR “this study” OR “a study”. You will want to copy and paste this entire row of keywords into its own search box (see first example below).

Important! From your list of results, you will still need to examine each article to see if it is primary research.

2. Filter by Document Type: on the Advanced Search page choose Case Study under Document Type or Publication Type. In ProQuest Education Journals, it looks like this:

All of these results are generally primary research articles, but not all primary research is a case study, so you will likely be missing some primary research articles on your topic by searching this way.

3. In ERIC database, you can choose “Reports – All” and/or “Reports – Research” under Publication Type. 

Many subject specialties and states have their own professional organizations.

Teachers

• Association of American Educators (AAE)
• Lutheran Education Association (LEA)
• National Association for Music Education (NAFME)
• National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET)
• National Business Education Association (NBEA)
• National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
• National Educators Association (NEA)
• Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC)

Administrators

• National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)
• Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE)

Education Trade Magazines are magazine written by teachers and administrators for teachers and administrators. They are a great way to obtain advice and classroom-tested ideas.

Magazines usually target a specific class subject or grade focus (early childhood, elementary, middle, or secondary teachers).

At CUW Library, they are available in Print and in Education Databases.

Specific Titles

These links open a database where you can search for articles within the magazine. Many of these titles are also available in print, so check Primo as well.

• American Biology Teacher
• American Music Teacher
• Art Education (Print Only)
•  Arts & Activities (Art Education)
• Choices (Teen Health)
• Diverse Issues in Higher Education
• Education Update (School Administration)
• Education Week
• Educational Leadership
• Exchange (Early Childhood Edu)
• Geography Teacher
• Green Teacher (Environmental Edu)
• Great Activities (P.E.)(Print Only)
• Instrumentalist (Band Directors)(Print only)
• Mathematics Teaching in Middle School
• Math Horizons
• New Teacher Advocate
• NAEA News
• NSTA Reports (Science)
• Principal
• The Reading Teacher
• School Arts
• Scholastic Teacher
• Science & Children (K-5)
• Science Scope (6-8)
• Social Studies and the Young Learner (Print only)
• Teaching Mathematics
• Teaching Children Mathematics (K-6)
• Teaching Pre-k-8
• YC-Young Children (Early Childhood Edu)

Proquest Databases

• Education Database
• Proquest Central

In Advanced Search, choose the Source type Trade Journals.

EBSCOhost Databases