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DISSERTATIONS - WIU LIBRARY
On-line Literature Review Sources
U. S. Department of Education	National Academy Press and yields over 150,000 pages of full-text from on-line books, free to read.
Ask ERIC	Search Tutorial
Yahoo Educational Journals	Search Help

Organizations			Return to Top
Illinois Principals Association	National Middle School Association	Illinois Association of School Administrators	National School Boards Association
Illinois State Board of Education	National Catholic Education Association	School Administrators of Iowa	Council for Exceptional Children
Iowa Department of Education	American Association of School Administrators	National Association of Elementary School Principals	National Staff Development Council
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development	Phi Delta Kappa	National Association of Secondary School Principals	Association of School Business Officials

OTHER RESOURCES
State Departments of Education	http://www.edresearch.com/state.htm
eSchool Newslogy	http://www.eschoolnews.com	The Coalition of Essential Schools	The Center for Leadership in School Reform
ITTE The Institute for Technology Training and Excellence (ITTE)		No Child Left Behind
Special Education resources		Council of Exceptional Children
Middle School Mega Site
National Education Goals Panel	http://www.negp.gov/	International Center for Leadership in Education	http://www.daggett.com/
The Center for Educational Reform	http://www.edreform.com/		http://www.clsr.org/
American Society of Training & Development	http://www.astd.org/	Training

Regional Education Laboratories			Return to Top
Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL)	http://www.ael.org	North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL)	http://www.ncrel.org
Specialty area: Rural Education		Specialty area: Technology. This lab has researched in-depth the issue of engaged learning
WestEd	http://www.fwl.org	Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL)	http://www.nwrel.org
Specialty area: Assessment and Accountability		Specialty area: School Change Processes
Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL)	http://www.mcrel.org	Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL)	http://www.prel.hawaii.edu
Curriculum, learning and instruction. This lab has assumed responsibility for critiquing & storing national & state efforts related to the development of academic standards.		Specialty area: Language and Cultural Diversity
Lab at Brown University Education Alliance (LAB)	http://www.lab.brown.edu/public/index.shtml	Southwestern Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL)	http://www.sedl.org
Specialty area: Language and Cultural Diversity		Specialty area: Language and Cultural Diversity
SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education (SERVE)	http://www.serve.org	The Laboratory for Student Success (LSS)	http://www.temple.edu/departments/LSS/
Specialty area: Early Childhood Education		Specialty area: Urban Education

Website Research Engines:
A place to look for topics. Remember the rules of search engines:
Quotes around specific phrases will search for those words together (i.e. "happy researcher" will look for URLs with those 2 words together).
Use and to link different topics together.
This will give you a site that has thousands of specific engine sites.	www.searchengineguide.com
Two sites that give search engines in an organized fashion.	http://NuevaSchool.org/~debbie/library/research/adviceengine.html
	http://www.amdahl.com/internet/metaindex.htm

Data		Harvard Project on Diversity
Census and Demographic Data	National Center for Education Statistics	School Report Card Data (Search by Illinois school – WORD)	http://www.isbe.state.il.us/reportcard/
ISAT & PSAE Information for Illinois Schools	http://www.chicago.tribune.com/news/skuls/skul.htm	Government Information Sharing Project	http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/
FedStats (70 Federal Agencies)		National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP	http://www.ed.gov.NCES/naep/
National Center for Educational Statistics

Assistance with Statistics
Statistical Instruction Internet Palette	http://research.edu.asu.edu	On-Line Research Textbook	http://trochim.human.cornell.edu/kb/kbhome.htm
Free, on-line statistical resource center	http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/cti/	Statistical computing environment for the World Wide Web	http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/webstat
Basics statistics review	http://www.olam.ed.asu/~glass/502/home.html	On-line statistics review	http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/hyperstat/contents.html
On-line statistics glossary	http://www.rice.edu/~lane/hyperstat/glossary.html

Writing Tools
Merriam Webster Dictionary	http://www.m-w.com/dictionary

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