Education

Starting points for finding information.

If you are a distance student, use the distance students version of this guide.

Related guides: Financial Aid for Students

Education Websites

• Gateway to 21st Century Skills
  
  A searchable collection of links to quality, online resources for use by teachers and educators.
  
  
• Education World
  
  A search engine for education sites and additional content/links.
  
  
• College and University Rankings
  
  A comprehensive listing of services and resources that rank colleges and universities.

Colorado Education Websites

• Colorado Department of Education
  
  
• Colorado Education Statistics (Colorado Department of Education)
  
  District-by-district and annual education statistics for the state.
  
  
• Colorado School Accountability Reports (Colorado Department of Education)
  
  School-by-school data on academic performance, safety and discipline incidents, student/teacher ratios and more.
  
  
• Colorado Association of School Boards
  
  
• Colorado.gov: Education
  
  Information on education in Colorado, for parents, students, and educators.
  
  
• College in Colorado
  
  Access information and admissions applications for Colorado colleges and universities.
  
  
• PLACE Study Guides (Program for Licensing Assessments for Colorado Educators)
  
  PDF study guides available for download.
  

Organizations

• Education Resource Organizations Directory (US Department of Education)
  
  Use this searchable database to find education organizations (state, regional, national, professional, etc.)

Find Articles

Find a Known Article/Journal | Find Articles on Your Topic

To find out if the CSU Libraries provide access to a specific article (you know the article title, journal name, year...), or to a specific journal, use the find journals search.


Find Articles on Your Topic

First try our 3-minute basic and advanced search tutorials.

• Search CSU Libraries databases for research in education.
  
  The database ERIC is a good starting point.
  
  See also the broader database listing for the social sciences.
  
  will appear in your database search results. Use it to discover if the fulltext of an article (print/electronic/microtext) is available through CSU Libraries.
  
  Imagine that our database search returns the following article description. Click the FindIt button to see if you can retrieve the fulltext article:
  
  Goldstein, S. (2006). Students' and instructors' beliefs about excellent lecturers and discussion leaders. Research in Higher Education, 47(6), 685-707.
  
  
  Use interlibrary loan to request journal articles that are not available through the CSU Libraries, or to request a PDF copy of articles only available in print/microtext.
  
  Learn about Endnote software and services for directly exporting citations from databases, organizing your research, and creating your footnotes/endnotes/reference list.

Newspaper/Newswire Articles

First try our 3-minute basic and advanced search tutorials.

• Search CSU Libraries databases for newspaper/newswire articles.
  
  See also the above information about using the button that you will see in your search results.
  
  Use interlibrary loan to request journal articles that are not available through the CSU Libraries, or to request a PDF copy of articles only available in print/microtext.
  

Books and More

First try our 3-minute basic and advanced search tutorials.

• Start by looking for items owned by CSU Libraries (Sage catalog).
  
  
• You might also look for items available for loan from Colorado and Wyoming Libraries (Prospector).
  
  
• Still need more? Try searching the WorldCat database for items at libraries worldwide.
  
  Use interlibrary loan to request items found in WorldCat and not available in the CSU Libraries.

Dissertations/Theses

First try our 3-minute basic and advanced search tutorials.

• Use the CSU Libraries database, Dissertations and Theses: Fulltext
  
  Search by topic/author/other for dissertations/theses completed worldwide. Download fulltext (PDF) for many completed 1997 or later.
  
  Use interlibrary loan to request theses/dissertations that are not available in fulltext.

Statistics

• Almanac of American Education (Paper)
  Call number: LB 2846 .A45 REF

  Historical and current US education data at national, state, and county levels, from sources such as the US National Center for Education Statistics and the US Census Bureau.

  
  
• Education Statistics of the United States (E-book/Paper)
  Call number: LA201 .E38 2003 REF

  Brings together education-related data from sources such as the US National Center for Education Statistics and the US Census Bureau. Recent and historical data.

  
  
• Search the CSU Libraries catalog (Sage)
  
  try searches such as: education AND statistics
  
  
• Education Statistics (Boston College Libraries)
  
  Find state, national, and international education statistics online.
  
  
• Statistical Universe (Lexis Nexis)
  
  CSU Libraries database providing access to statistics produced by federal agencies, states, and intergovernmental organizations.
  
  
• Colorado Education Statistics
  
  District-by-district and annual education statistics for the state.
  
  
• Colorado School Accountability Reports
  
  School-by-school data on academic performance, safety and discipline incidents, student/teacher ratios and more.
  

RSS

• Understanding RSS Feeds (University of Kansas Libraries)
  
  Quick guide to the what/why/how of RSS feeds.
  
  
• News, RSS, and Blog Search Engines (University of Kansas Libraries)
  
  Short, practical guide to specialized search engines.
  

Multimedia on the Web

• Multimedia Search Tools (Jenkins Law Library)
  
  Guide to specialized search engines for audio, video, and images.
  
  
• Finding Images on the Web (Boston University Libraries)
  
  Guide to online image collections, image search engines, and more.
  
  
• Education Podcast Network
  
  Podcasts about education issues/for classroom use.
  
  
• Podcast Directory for Educators, Schools and Colleges
  
  Podcasts about education issues/for classroom use.

Writing and Citing

• Writing@CSU
  
  Writing resources for CSU students.
  
  
• The Owl at Purdue
  
  Clear, practical advice on writing and citing.
  
  
• APA Formatting and Style Guide (The Owl at Purdue)
  
  Examples and guidance for American Psychological Association (APA) style.
  
  
• (Paper) Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
  
  Library reserve copies of the complete print guide to APA style, available for checkout. Ask for additional copies at the library Help Desk
  
  
• (Paper) APA Style Guide to Electronic References

  New in 2007, this brief guide deals specifically with APA citation for electronic sources.

• Common Types of Writing Assignments (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  
  Brief, helpful information on how to approach annotated bibliographies, literature reviews, dissertation proposals, and more.
  
  
• Zotero for Organizing and Citing
  Zotero is a free Mozilla Firefox extension that can help you organize and cite the information sources you use in your research.
  see what Zotero can do | download Zotero | getting started & help information
• Endnote for Organizing and Citing
  Endnote software can help you organize and cite the information sources you use in your research. Information on campus access and help.
• Create References in Word 2007
  A brief tutorial on creating citations and references in Word 2007.

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