Educational Research and Evaluation

Departmental Representatives

Most professional librarians serve as subject librarians for one or more academic departments or programs. They work with the faculty members to develop the library's collection, promote its use and provide library instruction.

For the College of Education, the subject librarian is:

Chris Guder, Reference Librarian Office: 206 Alden Library, Learning Commons (2nd floor) Phone: (740) 597-1975 E-Mail: guder@ohio.edu

The faculty library liaison person is:

Dr. Teresa Franklin, Associate Professor of Education Office: 313D McCracken Hall Phone: (740) 593-4561 E-mail: franklit@ohio.edu

Background Information
(including sources for identifying measurement tools, etc.)

Directory of test collections in academic, professional, and research libraries, ed. by Paul Fehrmann. Chicago, ACRL, 2001.
Location: Ref. LB3051 .D564 2001

Directory of unpublished experimental mental measures. New York, Human Sciences Press.
Location: Ref. BF431 .G625

ICPSR Data Sets

• ICPSR is the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, which "maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction." While some of the information from ICPSR is available to anyone, in many cases you have to request that our Official Representative downlaod the data set(s) that you want. For Ohio University this representative is Lorraine Wochna (Reference Dept.; 593-1238, wochna@ohio.edu.)

International encyclopedia of educational evaluation, edited by Herbert J. Walberg and Geneva D. Haertel. New York, Pergamon Press, 1990.
Location: Ref. LB2822.75 .I57 1990

Mental measurements yearbook. Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.

• The online version includes the 9th edition (1985) to the present.
• Print editions are held in the Reference Department. The latest edition is at the Reference Desk. Earlier editions are in the Reference stacks under Z 5814 .P 8 B 932.
• The editions of Mental Measurements Yearbook do not supersede each other, i.e. each edition primarily includes tests newly published since the last edition. (There are exceptions to the rule.) For that reason, it is often necessary to consult early editions of MMY.

Standards for educational and psychological testing, by the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association, and the National Council on Measurement in Education. Washington, DC, American Psychological Association, 1999.
Location: Ref. LB3051 .A693 1999.

Test critiques. Kansas City, Test Corporation of America.
Location: Ref. BF176 T419

Tests: a comprehensive reference for assessment in psychology, education and business. Kansas City, Tests Corporation of America.
Location: Ref. BF176 .T43

Tests in Microfiche
Location: Microforms Dept. LB3051 .T45x

• A collection of unpublished instruments in microfiche format.
• Cumulative Index to Tests in Microfiche is a printed index to the set. It is shelved in the Reference Department and in the Microforms Department under LB3051 .T45x.
• The Educational Testing Service provides an electronic index which includes references to this microfiche set as well as to instruments published in other sources such as journal articles and ERIC documents.
  http://www.ets.org/testcoll/index.html

Tests in print. Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.
Location: Ref. Z5814.E9 T47  latest ed. at the Ref. Desk; earlier eds. in Ref. Stacks

Library Catalogs

Library catalogs generally include references for materials like books, journals, and videos owned by a particular library or group of libraries. They do not include articles within journals, and most (including OU's catalog) don't include ERIC documents. To access those materials, use Indexes and Abstracts

ALICE: Ohio University Libraries' Online Catalog

ALICE is the name of the online library catalog for all campuses of Ohio University - Athens, Chillicothe, Eastern, Lancaster, Southern, and Zanesville.

OhioLINK Central Catalog

The OhioLINK Central Catalog represents the combined holdings of more than fifty libraries around the state. (See our page on borrowing books from OhioLINK.)

WorldCat

WorldCat is an international database for bibliographic information catalogued by many thousands of libraries. Consists of over 30 million bibliographic records. This is a good database for identifying materials not held in Ohio libraries. You can't borrow directly through this database. If you find materials here that are not available through OhioLINK, use Ohio University's Interlibrary Loan service.

Availability: all on-campus computers; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.

Indexes and Abstracts

• Indexes 600 international English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and book series in the field of education. Includes books reviews from those publications.
• Coverage of the electronic version is 1983 to the present. It is updated monthly.
• There is also a Retrospective Education Index for 1929-1982.
• Availability: all on-campus computers; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.

• Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals. This database also includes full text for more than 71 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.
• Availability: all on-campus computers; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.

• Indexes approximately 600 journals in the field of education and related fields. Also indexes the ERIC document collection. ERIC documents often include papers presented at psychological conferences.
• Coverage is 1966 to the present. It is updated monthly.
• Here is an alternate form of ERIC which is also available in Ohio public schools and public libraries.
• Availability: all on-campus computers; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.
• The ERIC Document Reproduction Service offers free PDF copies of some of the ERIC documents - 80% of the ERIC documents indexed since 1996. (Note: this is for ERIC documents only, not for jounal articles indexed in ERIC.) Use the Express Search or the Full Search link in the left hand column to enter ED numbers.

• Comprehensive coverage of research in mathematics and mathematically-related research in statistics, computer science, physics, operations research, engineering, biology, and other disciplines.
• Indexes journal articles, books, conference proceedings and papers, and published dissertations.
• Coverage is 1940 to the present. It is updated quarterly.
• Availability: All Ohio Univesity computers with web access; available off-campus with Dialnet as the internet provider

• Indexes approximately 1300 journals in the field of psychology and related disciplines, such as counseling, social linguistics, medicine, law, physiology, business, psychiatry, and anthropology. Also indexes books, chapters within books, and dissertations.
• Comprehensive and international in scope. Indexes materials in 27 languages from 46 countries. About 11% of the items indexed are not in English.
• Coverage of the current file is 1967 to the present. The current file is updated monthly. There is also a Historic PsycInfo file for1887-1966.
• Availability: all on-campus computers with web access; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.

• Citations of more than 2.4 million doctoral dissertations and 45,000 masters theses from 550 U.S. and international institutions.
• Selected masters theses and international dissertations included since 1988.
• Abstracts are included from 1981 to the present. Abstracts of earlier dissertations are on microfilm, on the 1st floor of Alden Library. Abstracts are unavailable for years before 1938.
• Supports the ordering of paper and microform copies of dissertations.
• Provides free access to the electronic texts (PDF files) of all Ohio University dissertations published 1997 forward.
• To view or print Portable Display Files (PDF) on your workstation, you will need a copy of the Adobe Acrobat reader loaded on your computer. The Adobe Acrobat reader is distributed free of charge at the Acrobat home page.
• Printing PDF files on the Library's networked printers is NOT recommended.
• Availability: All on-campus computers with web access; off-campus access is available to Ohio University students, faculty, and staff through a login process.
• More information on identifying dissertations

• Indexes articles and citations from over 1700 international journals in all areas of the social sciences. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
• Coverage of source journals is 1980 to date. Cited references can come from any time period. It is updated weekly.
• Availability: all on-campus computers with web access; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.

Research and Evaluation in Education Journals

This is a selective list of current subscriptions to research and evaluation journals owned by the Ohio University Libraries. Click on a title to get more information about our holdings.

Associations, Clearinghouses, and Other Web Sites

American Educational Research Association

URL: http://www.aera.net/

The American Educational Research Association is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results. AERA is the most prominent international professional organization with the primary goal of advancing educational research and its practical application. Its more than 22,000 members are educators; administrators; directors of research, testing or evaluation in federal, state and local agencies; counselors; evaluators; graduate students; and behavioral scientists.

Australian Association for Research in Education

URL: http://www.aare.edu.au/index.htm

AARE is an association of persons interested in fostering educational research in Australia. AARE facilitates contact between educational researchers and encourages and actively lobbies for development of all aspects of educational research. AARE assists members with educational research by conducting an Annual Conference, conducting Research Training Workshops, supporting the formation of Special Interest Groups, and publishing General Publications and Specific Professional Publications.

National Council on Measurement in Education

URL:http://www.ncme.org

The National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) is a professional organization for individuals involved in assessment, evaluation, testing, and other aspects of educational measurement. Members are involved in the construction and use of standardized tests; new forms of assessment, including performance-based assessment; program design; and program evaluation.

Portraits of Statisticians (University of York, Department of Mathematics)

URL: http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/people/

This site contains portraits of over 200 statisticians.

Statistical Home Page, by David C. Howell

URL: http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/StatPages/StatHomePage.html

This site is intended to accompany the author's texts (Statistical Methods for Psychology and Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences), but it is also useful to others not using those books.

StatLib (Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University)

URL: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/

StatLib is a system for distributing statistical software, datasets, and information by electronic mail, FTP and WWW. See especially the Data and Story Library (DASL) (pronounced "dazzle") which is an online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. There are data from a wide variety of topics so that statistics teachers can find real-world examples that will be interesting to their students. Use DASL's powerful search engine to locate the story or datafile of interest.

The Web Center for Social Research Methods

URL: http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/

This website is for people involved in applied social research and evaluation. You'll find lots of resources and links to other locations on the web that deal in applied social research methods. This includes an online hypertext textbook on applied social research methods, an online statistical advisor, and an online workbook that introduces the use of computer simulations in applied social research designs.