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Department of Career and Technology Education

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Subject Bibliographer: Barbara Wales

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Online Databases


Academic Search Complete :: Multidisciplinary database with more than 5500 full text periodicals, including more than 4600 peer-reviewed journals

Career and Technical Education :: Search vocational and technical periodicals covering all aspects of the Vo/Tech curriculum

CQ Electronic Library :: Current information, original content, statistics, analysis, and comprehensive coverage of the US government

Education: A SAGE Full Text Collection :: Full text collection of education journals

Education Full Text :: Indexes periodicals, yearbooks, and books relating to education. Full text coverage begins in 1996

Education Index Retrospective :: Indexing of education literature from 1929-1983

Education Research Complete :: K12 to higher ed database indexing over 1800 journals, more than 900 full text

ERIC :: Abstracts and indexes journal articles and research reports in education, 1966-present

Google Scholar :: Indexes and citations of academic information

Lexis-Nexis :: Provides a variety of legal, reference, medical, and governmental resources

Mental Measurements Yearbook :: Database of consumer-oriented test reviews including descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references.

Teacher Reference Center :: Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines

Selected Print Journals
Electronic Journals

 

Business education digest Journal of family and consumer sciences education
International journal for educational and vocational guidance

Vocational education: Research & reality

Note: This is a representative list only. Consult Quest for a complete list.

Electronic Books

 

The College blue book

Community colleges : a reference handbook

Educational adequacy and the courts : a reference handbook

Education and technology: an encyclopedia

America's top computer and technical jobs: detailed information on 112 major jobs at all levels of education and training

Technology applications in education: a learning view

Reference Sources


College majors handbook with real career paths and payoffs : the actual jobs, earnings, and trends for graduates of 60 college majors / Neeta P. Fogg, Paul E. Harrington, Thomas F. Harrington ; foreword by Michael Farr.

Education, a guide to reference and information sources / Nancy Patricia O'Brien. Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, c2000.

Education Statistics of the United States/ Washington, DC : Bernan Press, c2001.

Encyclopedia of careers and vocational guidance/ New York, NY : Ferguson/Facts On File, c2005. 13th ed.

Encyclopedia of education/ James W. Guthrie, ed. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2003. 2nd ed.

The Greenwood dictionary of education/ edited by John W. Collins III and Nancy Patricia O'Brien. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.

Links


Certification and Job Listings

50 States K-12 Employment Opportunities

Teacher Certification Requirements in all 50 States

Professional Organizations

Association of Career and Technical Education (ACTE) - The largest national education association dedicated to the advancement of education. It prepares youth and adults for careers and offers information and programs of Career and Technical Education

Division of Career Education, Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Missouri Association of Career and Technical Education - Promotes the development of vocational-technical education at the secondary, post-secondary, and adult levels within the state of Missouri

Missouri State Teachers Association - State-wide organization comprised of local community teacher associations in each school district

National Research Center for Career and Technical Education - A national organization providing innovative approaches, programs and conferences to improving the practice of career and technical education at the local, state, and national levels leading to improved learner achievement

Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) - Provides information, research, and resources to help prepare young people and adults for postsecondary education, successful careers, and productive lives.

Department of Labor - Information on labor, employment, policy and research of US Government.

 

 

 

 

 

3/21/2008
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