New Library Resources for Students:
- Assignment calculator:
(tutorials.sjlibrary.org/tutorial/calculator/)
Designed to help you keep your assignment on track, the Assignment Calculator:
- Outlines the process of researching and writing step by step
- Gives you an action plan with target due dates
- Sends you an email with the dates when each step should be done
- Helps you finish your assignment on time and on target
- Library Guides: (libguides.sjsu.edu/browse.php?o=l)
Guides to the best resources for each SJSU academic department.
- Quick tutorials for efficient library research: (tutorials.sjlibrary.org/tutorial/)
Great Websites, full of excellent resources:
- www.clrn.org, the California Learning Resource Network
- ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc, the “What Works
Clearinghouse” (in the Institute of Education Sciences,
of the National Center for Education Evaluation and
Regional Assistance (NCEE), of the U.S. Department of Education).
Opportunities for Exchanges, Training and Study Abroad
Designed to help you keep your assignment on track, the Assignment Calculator:
- Outlines the process of researching and writing step by step
- Gives you an action plan with target due dates
- Sends you an email with the dates when each step should be done
- Helps you finish your assignment on time and on target
Guides to the best resources for each SJSU academic department.
The American Councils for International Education administers a variety of cultural exchange, study abroad, and research programs on behalf of both public and private funders. Participation in these programs is through an open, merit-based competition, and facilitates mutual understanding between the United States and Eurasia, Southeast Europe, and South Asia. See their list of current opportunities at www.americancouncils.org/exTraining.php.
“Between Two Worlds: How Young Latinos Come of Age in America”
A new report from the
Pew Hispanic Center. Information on the report is available at
www.pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=117,
and the complete report (156 pages, 5.7 MB 
)
is at http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/117.pdf, or here at
edleadersforequityandexcellence.com.
The International Journal of Servant Leadership, was published for three years (2005, 2006 and 2007) by Gonzaga University. Information about the journal and its three issues are available at www.rosauer.gonzaga.edu/Academics/Colleges+and+Schools/School+of+Professional+Studies/Ph.D.---Leadership-Studies/Int.-Journal-of-Servant-Leadership/.
APA Style Resources:
- Purdue University’s very popular resource, “OWL,” the Online Writing Lab, (owl.english.purdue.edu), has a nice APA style guide at owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/. (Recommended by Justin C —and also by SJSU Librarian Susan Kendall.)
- For APA style formatting of reference citations, Susan Kendall recommends The Citation Machine at www.citationmachine.net/. (It used to be at www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/cm.php, at Landmarks for Schools (a project of David Warlick), but it now has its own domain.
- Basics of APA Style Tutorial (Flash presentation), at flash1r.apa.org/apastyle/basics/index.htm, which is part of www.apastyle.org/.
- A Guide for Writing Research Papers based on Styles Recommended by the American Psychological Association at the Library website for Capital Community College, Hartford, CT (www.ccc.commnet.edu/apa/).
- Another APA tutorial, this one at www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/tutorials/apatutorial/tutorialindex.html, from the library at University of Southern Mississippi.
- A nice concise summary of APA Essentials, at www.vanguard.edu/faculty/ddegelman/index.aspx?doc_id=796, by Vanguard University of Southern California.
- A list of APA resources, at www.psychwww.com/resource/apacrib.htm, from “Psych Web,” (www.psychwww.com).
- An in-depth writing guide, at
www.uwsp.edu/PSYCH/apa4b.htm, by
University of Wisconsin psychology professor
Mark Plonsky. He also has a
shorter checklist version, at
www.uwsp.edu/PSYCH/apa4bs.htm.
(Here’s a printable version
(30 KB )
of the checklist guide.
- A very thorough guide to APA style for reference citations, at library.nmu.edu/guides/userguides/style_apa.htm, from the library at Northern Michigan University.
- Do you know of some great APA resources? If so, email the webmaster (see footer), and he’ll add them to the list!
Finding School Data:
Saturday, October 10, 2009 (List compiled and activities written by Professor Steve Kay)
- DataQuest, CDE: data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest
- Select English Learners for your district and two others
- Select two other categories for examination
- Ed Data: www.ed-data.k12.ca.us
- Compare school, district, county and state data on teacher salaries
- Compare district and county on selected area
- Star Test Data, CDE: star.cde.ca.gov
- Access all data for your school
- Special Ed Data, CDE: www.cde.ca.gov/sp/se
- Click on data collection and reporting
- ERIC: Education Resources Information Center, ED (U.S. Department of Education): www.eric.ed.gov
- The world’s largest digital library of educational literature
- Phi Delta Kappa: www.pdkintl.org
- The leading professional journal for education. “Phi Delta Kappa International is the premier professional association for educators.
For more than 100 years, it has focused its work on the tenets of service, research, and leadership. … PDK publishes the highly-regarded
Phi Delta Kappan, the No. 1 education policy magazine, and sponsors the annual PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward
the Public Schools. … PDK’s mission is to support education, particularly public education, as the cornerstone of democracy.” (from the website)
- Click on Kappan
- Click on Highlights of Gallup Poll
- Portical: www.portical.org
- Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership
- Type in instructional minutes
- Google for Educators: www.google.com/educators
- Explore the site
- Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology, ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education): caret.iste.org
- Click on article reviews; select one
- California School Educational Technology Prfiles: www3.edtechprofile.org/index.php
- This site has school technology plans, as well as individual teacher’s “Ed Tech Profiles”
- If you have not logged in, take a few minutes to create a user account and then login.
- Click on Proficiency Assessment
- Begin the survey
- Once you exit, you can return later to complete your ed tech self-assessment
- Great Schools: www.greatschools.net
- Parents rate schools, teachers and school administration
- Look at Compare
- Select high school, 30 miles, zip code 94306
- Press enter or go
- Educational Results Partnership: www.edresults.org/ (formerly www.jftk-ca.org)
- Academic comparisons for schools and districts in California
- Rate My Teachers: www.ratemyteachers.com
- Parent and student comments about faculty; controversial and funky.
We will look at this page together; explore as time permits - Electronic Learning Assessment Resources (ELAR), of the California Learning Resource Network (CLRN): http://www.clrn.org/elar
- A one-stop web-based location to review data management systems based on approved criteria
- Click on THE ELAR DECISION
- Select research articles
- Click on SIMILAR SCHOOLS, DIFFERENT RESULTS
Understanding the Differences Between State Standards
Recall that one of Dr. Manny Barabra’s main points (in his presentation on data, at our Saturday October 10 morning session) was that what consitutes “proficient” or “advanced” on state-mandated testing varies widely from state to state, and that these differences disproportionately affect schools (and teachers and students) under NCLB—and the public’s perception of how well schools are doing in different states. California has some of the toughest standards in the nation, so that claims that CA is not doing as well as other states in bringing all children to proficiency may not be factually accurate.
“Conjuring Cut Scores” is an article published by AFT (available online at www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/winter07_08/conjuring.pdf) that addresses these issues of different states having different levels of expectation as to what consitutes proficient or advanced.
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