Start with:
- Education SourceSearch full-text education journals covering all levels of education--from early childhood to higher education--as well as all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing.
- ERIC Education (Ebscohost)ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is a database of full-text education literature and resources. With coverage dating back to 1966, it is essential for education researchers of all kinds.
- APA PsycInfoFind articles in thousands of psychology journals, from 1806 to current. View this tutorial to learn how to go from a general idea to a very precise set of results of journal articles and scholarly materials.
Then try any of the following:
- Academic Search PremierA great place to start your research on any topic, search multidisciplinary, scholarly research articles. This database provides access to scholarly and peer reviewed journals, popular magazines and other resources. View this tutorial to learn how to go from a general idea to a very precise set of results of journal articles and scholarly materials.
- Education Index RetrospectiveIndexes nearly 600 education journals as far back as 1929. Includes book reviews.
- Ovid MEDLINESearches MEDLINE, which is the primary source of journal articles for the health sciences (fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, public health, health care systems, and basic sciences). Ovid MEDLINE is optimized for advanced literature searches. Coverage is from the 1940s to the present.
PsycINFO Tutorial
Looking for datasets?
American Psychological Association's Links to Data Sets and Repositories
Department of Education's ED Data Express
e.g., The Higher Education Randomized Controlled Trial (THE-RCT), United States, 2003-2019 (ICPSR 37932)
Minnesota Department of Education Data Center
NCES National Center for Education Statistics
Psychology open data directory created as part of a 2019 SIPS Hackathon
Find assessments
- PsycTestsA research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales and other assessments as well as descriptive and administrative information.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in PrintUse to identify tests, surveys and evaluations in education, psychology, business, law, healthcare, counseling, and management. In addition to test reviews, descriptions of the purpose, target population, administration, scores, price, author, and publisher for all listed tests are provided. The Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print, from the Buros Institute, contains the most recent descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests from the Buros Institute's 9th and more recent Yearbooks. Limited to 8 simultaneous users.
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)Find surveys, tests, observation checklists, and questionnaires used to assess health and behavior of infants, children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly. Topics covered include public health, communication, psychology, management, nursing, organizational behavior, medicine, sociology, physical education, psychiatry, human resources, gerontology and dental medicine. Includes information about the test such as title, author, publication resource, reliability and validity. Note: One users can access at a time.
- ETS Test Collection Database (Educational Testing Service)The Test Collection at ETS (TestLink) is a database of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices most of which were created by authors outside ETS/ With information about tests from the early 1900s to the present, the Test Collection at ETS is the largest compilation in the world.
- American Psychological Association: Testing and AssessmentThe APA's web site with information about psychological testing, standards for testing, and locating tests.
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