Educational Leadership

• Resources
• Research strategies
• Writing and citing

Resources for Educational Leadership

• Definitions, facts, figures and overviews
• Books and more
• Subject readings
• Journal articles
• Internet sites
• Related resources
  • Curriculum resources (CRC collection)
  • Teaching resources and support (Internet links)

Educational Leadership definitions, facts, figures and overviews

• Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
• Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
• Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts

Online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

Print dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

To find additional reference items

1. Search the Library Catalogue
2. Select advanced keyword search
3. Combine a broad keyword AND the word dictionar**
   
   education AND dictionar**
   
   education AND encycloped**
   
   education AND handbook**
   
   
4. To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
   
   e.g. educat** will retrieve educate, educates, education, educational

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Educational Leadership books and more

Search the Library Catalogue to find books, videos, CDs

If you know the exact title

1. Select title search
2. Type in the exact title
3. Check the location, call number and status boxes to find the item in the Library collection

If you don't have an exact title OR only have a topic area

1. Select advanced keyword search
2. Type in keywords from your topic
3. Combine your keywords with AND to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
   
   e.g. education AND leadership
   
   
4. To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
   
   e.g. educat** will retrieve educates, education, educator,
   

Catalogue search tips:

• Too many hits? Add another keyword e.g. education AND leadership AND research
  OR
  Use the limit functions in advanced keyword search e.g. limit by publication date, format, location
• Found a useful title? Click on the subject headings to find similar material
• Studying at a different UOW campus? Use an advanced keyword search and limit by location

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Educational Leadership journal articles

Search a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, research reports and newspaper articles.

Try these first

Complete list of Education databases

Found a useful reference?

Some databases do not provide the fulltext of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database.

Database search tips:

• Break your topic into keywords and/or phrases. The search strategy worksheet will help you
• Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
• To narrow your search combine your keywords with AND to find records that contain all your keywords
  
  e.g. educational leadership AND women
  
  
• To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords
  
  e.g. woman OR women OR female*
  
  
• Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword. Symbols vary between databases
  
  e.g. lead* retrieves leads, leader, leadership
  
  
• Found a useful reference? Use the subject headings to find similar material

• Use library database tips or the database help screens for tips on how to search

More information: Finding Journal Articles Tutorial

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Educational Leadership Internet sites

It is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web.

Try the following sites as a starting point.

• Internet sources
• Government departments
• Search engines & directories
• UOW sites

Internet sources

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
• Australian Principal's Centre
  The central purpose of Australian Principals Centre is to recognise and enhance the professional status of the principalship. This site provides information on APC conferences, services, and newsletters
• EdNA Australian Online Resource Collection
  This service, provided through EdNA Online, contains information about school education authorities including school systems and sectors, boards of studies and DEST.
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management
  This resource provides access to a huge collection of education material. The ERIC Clearinghouses collect literature on and provide a variety of services and resources in specific subject areas
• South Australian Centre for Leaders in Education (SACLE)
  Provides links to educational leaderships topics by subject heading.
• World Data on Education (WDE)
  This database provides information on the organisation and function of national education systems. It includes profiles, national reports and annotated web links. To enter the database click on Databank.
• What Works Clearing House
  Established in 2002 by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) provides educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public with a central source of scientific evidence of what works in education.

Government departments

• NSW Department of Education and Training
  Access to DET's Educational Leadership and Practice resources
• Education portal
  Australian
  
• AEI Online
  Australian
• US Department of Education
  This site provides information about preparing new teachers, raising standards, professional development and more, including school administration (United States)

Search engines and directories

Search engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database.

Try these first:

Remember to evaluate all information.

• EduSearch.com.au
• Google Scholar
• Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collection
• Other search engines and directories

Directories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.

• Academic Info: Education
• Awesome Library - Principal
• Education Planet
• WWW Virtual Library

UOW sites

• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Education - Dive into Education 2006
• Research and Development Centres

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Last reviewed: 29 October, 2007