Education Research Resources

We are pleased to announce that access to the APA PsycTESTS database is now available via SFU Library: http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB/BVAS/resource/12168

PsycTESTS indexes more than 6,500 psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessment tools including many relevant to educational psychology. Records provide descriptive information about test development and administration, and in most cases also provide the full-text test instrument. Records link to a variety of materials describing the test in peer-reviewed literature, technical reports, or dissertations.

Tests are compiled from a systematic review of peer-reviewed journals published by APA, Hogrefe Publishing Group, and other large publishers; technical reports from PsycEXTRA®; contributions from individual test authors; collections from the Archives of the History of American Psychology; and more. The database includes primarily unpublished tests, though commercially available tests indexed by APA are also included, with links to purchase instruments from the publisher.

Many thanks to all of you who submitted feedback on this resource.

SFU Library has recently upgraded to the new Education Source database from EBSCO: http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB/BVAS/resource/12294

This new “super-database” was developed from a merger of high-quality databases from EBSCO Publishing (including Education Research Complete ) and H.W. Wilson (including Education Full Text ). In addition, Education Source covers hundreds of unique resources that were not previously available elsewhere.

Please note that the following individual databases (now merged in to Education Source ) will no longer be available after January 31, 2012:

- Education Research Complete: http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB/BVAS/resource/11853

- Education Full Text: http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB/BVAS/resource/5857

- Education Full Text and Retrospective Index (combined search of the current and retro database): http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB/BVAS/resource/11218

Here is some more information about Education Source from the publisher’s website:

“As the most authoritative resource for the study of education, this bibliographic and full-text database covers scholarly research and information to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers.

Education Source was developed from a merger of high-quality databases from EBSCO Publishing and H.W. Wilson, and includes many unique sources that were never previously available. This massive file offers the world’s largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals, and encompasses an international array of English-language periodicals, monographs, yearbooks and more.

This complete source of education scholarship covers all levels of education—from early childhood to higher education—as well as all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing.”

Content includes:

- Full text for over 1,700 journals
- Indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals
- Full text for more than 550 books and monographs
- Full text for numerous education-related conference papers
- Citations for over 4 million articles, including book reviews
- Over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests

- And much more …

We are very pleased to present these two new resources for Education researchers:

1) Education Research Complete: http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB/BVAS/resource/11853

Start your research here!  Education Research Complete is a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education.  Includes indexing and abstracts for more than 2,300 journals and full-text for over 1,400 journals. Also includes full-text for over 550 books, monographs, and conference papers. Topics include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.

2) Teacher Reference Center: http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB/BVAS/resource/11854

The BCTF Research study The Worklife of BC Teachers in 2009 is now online on the BCTF web site. Individual chapters can be opened, or a PDF version of the whole study may also be read. Chapters include:

• Demographic and employment characteristics of BC teachers
• Teachers’ education and professional development
• Workload issues
• How teachers spent their summer break
• Satisfaction and stress in teaching
• Sources of stress, and changes in areas of stress, workload and job satisfaction
• Teachers’ perceptions of the effects of stress
• Inclusive education issues and perceptions
• Teachers’ priority areas for BCTF bargaining and advocacy

In addition to the reports published here, BCTF Research and Information Services staff have published:

• A review of Canadian teacher worklife studies since 2001
• Links to relevant BCTF Research Reports, and to recent international literature on teachers’ work in other countries
• Literature and multi-media resources on work-life balance and stress in society
• Links to BCTF programs supporting teacher wellness, rehabilitation and Health and Safety

All of these can be found at: http://www.bctf.ca/TeacherWorklife.aspx

If you’ve checked out our SFU Library Subject Research Guides recently you may have noticed that they now have a new and improved look! These online guides are designed as starting places to help SFU researchers find books, journal articles, and additional resources in their subject areas.

Check out the updated Education research guide and let me know what you think! Also, if you spot any errors or have any suggestions for additional information that you’d like to see included in this guide, please let us know.

~Hope & Holly