Libraries can offer quality online and traditional resources about education and psychology.
You can easily discover quality articles about psychology and education with both online and traditional resources. Before making a trip to a local library, explore your options online. Educational databases, such as EBSCOhost and ProQuest, provide information from top-notch journals, magazines and newspapers. With a web search, you need to filter through numerous sources to find current, reputable data, including e-books, journals, magazines, newspapers, videos and podcasts. Simply accessing your local library's database can provide information about available books, periodicals, DVDs and CDs. Interviews may supply invaluable information about trends in educational or psychological research.
Instructions
Find Psycho-Educational Information
1. Check your access to educational databases. If you are a college student, you may be able to access academic databases such as EBSCOhost and ProQuest at no additional cost. For example, an EBSCOhost site may include individual databases, such as Education Abstracts, ERIC, PsycARTICLES, Pyschology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. For a fee, you could subscribe individually.
2. Request full-text articles from academic databases, rather than accepting abstracts. ProQuest, for example, offers access to educational psychological resources, such as Educational Theory, Childhood Education and College Teaching, The Psychological Record, eAmerican Journal of Psychiatry and The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.
3. Click on the article title within a database. The entire text of the article may appear, or you may need to click on a PDF file to access it.
4. Email, save or print articles from databases for future reference. If you need a citation, such an APA (American Psychological Association) or MLA (Modern Language Association), most academic databases (including EBSCOhost and ProQuest) will supply the format.
5. Conduct web searches cautiously using your favorite search engine. Initially, consider limiting your searches to sites with generally trustworthy extensions, such as edu and gov. Online, you will discover ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), a "gov" site that provides reliable information, sometimes in full-text format. You may learn to trust articles from some "com" extensions, such as Psychology Today. Google Scholar articles and e-books may also provide useful information about educational and psychological issues.
6. Access the online library database at your school or within your community for additional resources. Search by topic, author or specific title to access available journals, magazines, books and audio-visual resources. You may find entire textbooks about educational and psychological theories.
7. Interview experts, including psychology and education professors, psychologists, psychiatrists and school superintendents. Often they can explain how educational and psychological theories translate to the "real" world. You may choose to try an online interview if a face-to-face meeting becomes impractical.
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