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Academic OneFile
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Educator's Reference Complete
This collection of more than 1,100 periodicals and 200 reports is a great resource for any educator—from the school teacher and administrator to those studying in the field at the collegiate and graduate level. Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete seeks to provide full text for titles in the ERIC database and covers multiple levels of education from preschool to college, and every educational specialty—such as technology, bilingual education, health education, and testing. It also provides insight on issues in administration, funding, and policy.

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Education Research Complete
Full text scholarly research and information on all areas of education and all educational specialties, such as: multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction, administration, and related social issues. Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals and the full text of 750+ journals. Full text of 80+ books also available along with full text for education-related conference papers.
JSTOR
Important scholarly journals delivered as high quality page images and articles downloads are in PDF format. Coverage usually stops from 2 to 5 years prior to current year depending on each journal's publisher. Subjects include: African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Language & Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, & Statistics.
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Teaching Commons
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Week 6

Assignment

Research Introduction

As an educator, you will experience in-service training days that will be your continuing education as an educator. For this exercise, you will choose a social issue that is found in education. This can be any topic of your choosing. For this assignment, start by choosing a specific issue in education. This should be a topic that you could see as a topic for in-service training that could impact all members of your faculty.

Research a topic. (Your choosing)
Find 3 articles related to your topic.
Copy and paste the citation or website link of each article.
Identify where you found the article. (web page, database)
Write a 2-3 sentence summary of the article.
Save the attached document and upload it. .

Topic: ______________________________________

	Article 1	Article 2	Article 3
Citation or Web link
Where the article was found
Summary

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EDUC 1300 - Lauer, Deanna: Database Research

Welcome EDUC 1300 students

Searching as Strategic Exploration

Week 6

Assignment

Research Introduction

Off-campus access