Education Resources

Starting your research

Starting your Research

Encyclopedias, handbooks and subject specific dictionaries will help provide useful background information, as well as terms to use when searching the databases. For example:

McCulloch, G. & Crook, D (Eds.). (2008). The Routledge international encyclopedia of education. London; New York: Routledge.	Palloff, R. & Pratt, K. (2009). Assessing the online learner: Resources and strategies for faculty. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Tan, O. S. (2009). Problem-based learning and creativity. Singapore: Cengage Learning.	Tan, A. G. (Ed.). (2007). Creativity: a handbook for teachers. Singapore: World Scientific.

A GOOGLE search can also help find background information and suggestions for more keywords.

Keywords & OPAC

Keywords & OPAC

Use OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) to find books, journal titles and audio-visual materials in the Library. When searching for information, you need to use keywords. See below for some suggestions.

adult education	curriculum	distance learning
e-learning	educational research	national education
pupil differences	problem based learning	tertiary education
teaching methods	technology, education

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Finding Articles Online

Finding Articles Online

The articles inside magazines, journals & periodicals are very useful sources of information. Articles are different from books because:

• they are much more up-to-date
• they are shorter (less to read!)
• they concentrate on topics or specific aspects of topics
• there are many articles being published all the time so you have more choice.

The library catalogue, OPAC, does NOT tell you what articles the Library has, only which journals or periodicals, so the easiest way to find articles is to use the online databases.

• Academic Search Premier

• Educational Research Complete

• Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC)

• Professional Development Collection

• Emerald Management Xtra College

Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles are also very useful sources of information, especially for subject like National Education or education in Singapore. These articles can be found in the LexisNexis Academic and the Factiva databases.

• Factiva (Dow Jones)

• LexisNexis Academic

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Click here for a list of all the databases subscribed to by TP Library.

Recommended Websites

Recommended Websites

• The Chronicle of Higher Education - daily updates of developments in higher education, information technology, and links to internet resources on higher education.

• Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Inc (HERDSA) - HERDSA encourages and promotes quality teaching and learning in higher education, provides forums for the exchange of information on higher education; and develops and publishes materials for higher education.

• Ministry of Education, Singapore - for comprehensive information on Singapore's education system, from links to the school webistes to subject syllabuses.

• The Times Higher Education Supplement - UK's authoritative source of information about higher education.

National Education

• Archives and Artifacts Online Singapore (a2O) - one-stop portal on heritage information. a2O allows users to seamlessly search information across NHB's various independent databases and view selected photographs, maps and plans, listen to oral history interview samplers and watch snippets of audio-visual recordings, round the clock.

• National Heritage Board (NHB) - NHB preserves, presents and promotes the cultural heritage of Singapore. The Board encourages the preservation of national monuments, develop heritage programmes, mark historic sites and provide consultancy services to organisations who wish to perpetuate our heritage.

Problem Based Learning

• Maastricht University PBL site - aimed at those involved in higher education, this site provides access to various international PBL resources such as bibliographies, discussion lists, full text literature, listing of institutions and libraries and more.

• Problem-Based Learning (University of Delaware) - established by the University of Delaware (US), this site features numerous Problem-Based Learning articles including sample problems, courses and syllabi as used in biology, chemistry, and physics. Links to other PBL sites are also available.

• Samford University Center for Teaching, Learning and Scholarship: Problem based learning - established by Samford University (US), this is a website for information on PBL in undergraduate education. There is also a PBL Database of practitioners (searchable by country, type + institution), and links to PBL ListServs.

• School of Medicine, Problem-Based Learning Home Page - established by the School of Medicine, Queen's University (Canada), this site features a PBL Handbook to download, abstracts, references and links to PBL implementations. The emphasis is on medical and health sciences.

• TP PBL Portal - providing information on and about PBL at the Temasek Polytechnic. Consultancy and training services in PBL are also available here

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