ADSUP 717: Research Seminar in Evaluating & Applying Educational Research

Reference Works

Reference works give you an overview of a subject, help you focus your topic idea, and tell you what the classic studies in the field are. A research handbook is a reference book with chapters by various authors that summarize the research on a particular issue. They can point you to the leading articles as of the time of publication, and you can then use ERIC or Google Scholar to bring your research down to the present.

• Handbook of Social Justice in Education.
  Ayers, William Ayers, Therese Quinn, David Omatoso Stovall eds., London: Routledge, 2008.
  Available Online.
• Teacher Assessment and the Quest for Teacher Quality: A Handbook.
  Mary M. Kennedy, ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010.
  Cooperman Library Education Reading Room, 6th floor LB2838 .T386 2010
• Handbook of Motivation at School.
  Kathryn R. Wentzel and Allan Wigfield, eds. New York; London: Routledge, 2009.
  Cooperman Library Stacks (Non-Circ) LB1065 .W46 2009.

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