Research Guides: TESE 479 & 879: Special Education

Library Search

Finding peer-reviewed articles

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database indexes over 13,000 journals and provides full-text for 4,700 journals.
Education Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Full text articles from over 1,700 education-related journals, with indexing for thousands more journals, books, and conference papers back to 1929.
ERIC via FirstSearch This link opens in a new window
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Covers all areas of education and education-related aspects of other disciplines. "ED" documents (1994-present) may be available in full-text online.
Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Indexes nearly 300 periodicals covering education topics such as: Assessment, Best Practices, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Literacy Standards, and School Administration.
This database is also freely accessible at this alternate link: http://www.teacherreference.com

MLA Style

Purdue OWL MLA

Finding online videos

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) in Academic Video Online makes it a useful resource for all types of patrons, giving libraries a high return on investment.

Finding curriculum resources

Looking for juvenile literature or professional literature related to a particular subject area and reading level? This information and more is readily available through Children's Literature Comprehensive Database.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 300,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's and young adult books. Includes information about book awards, reading measurement programs, best book lists, and state reading lists.

You may also be interested in looking at Curriculum Standards by state.

Curriculum Guides

PRAXIS preparation resources

Peterson's Test Prep This link opens in a new window
The Testing and Education Reference Center (TERC) is an online testing resource which includes an online test for PRAXIS I and online books for PRAXIS I and II, as well as other tests.

ETS PRAXIS: Nebraska's requirements

Academic integrity policies

Helpful links

Request Purchase & Interlibrary Loan

Interlibrary Loan

To request that the library purchase materials, please send me (reevesr@unk.edu) the title, author, publisher and publication date information. I can't guarantee that the library will be able to make the purchase.

TESE 479 & 879

Curriculum Librarian

Curriculum Associate