Department of Educational Studies Documentation Centre, Mona

EDUCATION CONFERENCES

Education Conference Listings Service: http://brs.leeds.ac.uk/~beiwww/becls.htm; This information service from the office of the British Education Index at Leeds University Library provides details of “conferences that have a professional focus and which provide research, practice or policy insights”.

DATABASES AND OTHER RESOURCES

Databases

ACER Cunningham Library, Australian Council for Educational Research: http://www.acer.edu.au/library; Databases include EdResearch Online – “a database of online articles from leading educational journals”. Articles may be downloaded at a cost.
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC): http://www.eric.ed.gov; Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, the ERIC database covers journals and other education-related resources. The ERIC database now includes free “full-text non-journal documents” previously sold by the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS).
Education-line: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol; An information service from the British Education Index office in Leeds University Library, Education-line offers a “freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice”.
Educational Testing Service (ETS) Test Collection Database: http://www.ets.org/testcoll; Covers tests and other measurement devices from the early 1900s to the present.

Other Resources

Intute

http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/education/

Intute works along with partners to provide access to web resources for education and research. Formerly, the Resource Discovery Network (RDN), Intute is a consortium of seven universities in the UK . The Intute Education Gateway “ treats educational studies as a distinct field, with the educational aspects of other disciplines handled elsewhere.” Browse the site for other aspects of education such as educational psychology.

Bartleby.com

http://www.bartleby.com

Provides online access to literature, nonfiction and reference books free of charge

Encyclopedia of Educational Technology

http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet

The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training.

The Educator’s Reference Desk

http://www.eduref.org
Education World: http://www.education-world.com; Includes search engine for educational web sites only, lesson plans, site reviews and information for technology integration in the classroom.
The Gateway to Educational Materials: http://www.thegateway.org
ReadWriteThink: http://www.readwritethink.org; Developed through a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA) the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation, this site provides access to resources in reading and language arts.

E – JOURNALS

Documentation Centre’s E-Journals

British Journal of Educational Psychology: http://www.ingentaconnect.com
British Journal of Sociology of Education: http://www.ingentaconnect.com
Comparative Education: http://www.ingentaconnect.com
Disability and Society: http://www.ingentaconnect.com
Journal of Curriculum Studies: http://www.ingentaconnect.com
Journal of Education for Teaching: http://www.ingentaconnect.com
Journal of In-service Education: http://www.triangle.co.uk
Journal of Vocational Education and Training: http://www.triangle.co.uk

Other E-Journals

International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology

http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu

This e-journal “aims to strengthen links between research and practice in ICT in education and development in hitherto less developed parts of the world, e.g., developing countries (especially small states), and rural and remote regions of developed countries. “ The journal's sponsoring organizations are the Distance Education Centre, The University of the West Indies and Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa.

American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group Communication of Research: http://aera-cr.asu.edu; Provides links to more than 200 electronic journals that are “scholarly, peer-reviewed, full-text and accessible without cost.”
: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents; Published by the Computer Writing and Research Lab of the Division of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Texas at Austin, Currents focuses on “work addressing the use of electronic texts and technologies for reading, writing, teaching, and learning”.
The Internet TESL Journal: http://iteslj.org; Journal for teachers of English as a second language that includes articles, research papers, lesson plans, classroom handouts and teaching ideas.

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (Jamaica)

Primary & Preparatory

Our Lady of the Angels Preparatory School: http://www.olaps.com

Secondary

Ardenne High School: http://www.ardennehigh.com
The Belair School: http://www.belairschool.com
Campion College: http://www.campioncollege.com/campion
Clarendon College: http://www.clarendoncollege.com
deCarteret College: http://www.decarteretcollege.com/index.mv?screen=home&screen2=ivan2
Dinthill Technical High School: http://www.dinthilltech.org
Edwin Allen High School: http://edwinallenhigh.edu.jm/home
Hampton High School: http://www.munrohampton.com/schools/hampton/index.htm
Hydel Group of Schools: http://www.hydelgroupofschools.com
Kingston Technical High School: http://www.kthsjamaica.com
Mannings High School: http://www.geocities.com/manningshigh
Munro College: http://www.munrohampton.com/schools/munro/index.htm
St. George’s College: http://www.stgc.org
Wolmer’s Boys School: http://www.wolmers.net/boys/index.html
Womer’s Girls School: http://www.wolmers.net/girls/index.html

Tertiary

College of Agriculture, Science and Education: http://www.case.edu.jm
Excelsior Community College: http://www.exedonline.org
The Management Institute for National Development: http://www.mind.edu.jm
Northern Caribbean University: http://www.ncu.edu.jm
University of Technology, Jamaica: http://www.utech.edu.jm

LIBRARIES AND DOCUMENTATION CENTRES

Jamaica

Jamaica Library Service: http://www.jamlib.org.jm
National Library of Jamaica: http://www.nlj.org.jm

Caribbean

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN/ECLAC). Documentation Centre: http://webopac.eclacpos.org/; The Centre’s Caribbean Digital Library provides access to Caribbean documents on the Internet.

MINISTRIES OF EDUCATION

The Bahamas: http://www.bahamaseducation.com
Belize: http://www.moes.gov.bz
Guyana: http://www.sdnp.org.gy/minedu
Jamaica: http://www.moec.gov.jm
St. Lucia: http://www.education.gov.lc

ORGANIZATIONS

Jamaica

HEART Trust/NTA: http://www.heart-nta.org
Jamaica Teachers Association: http://www.jamaicateachers.org.jm
University Council of Jamaica: http://www.ucjamaica.com

Caribbean

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat: http://www.caricom.org
Caribbean Examinations Council: http://www.cxc.org
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States: http://www.oecs.org

Other Organizations

Jamaica

University Council of Jamaica

http://www.universitycouncilja.com

UNESCO: International Bureau of Education: http://www.ibe.unesco.org
UNESCO: International Institute for Educational Planning: http://www.unesco.org/iiep

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