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AERA SIG Communication Research (American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group):
includes only links to electronic journals that are scholarly, peer-reviewed, full text and accessible without cost.
Directory of Open access journals:
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. There are now 3781 journals in the directory.
EDUCAUSE
As the online site for the two organizations, EDUCOM and CAUSE, this publication focuses on information technology in higher education.
eLearn Magazine:
This site publishes web articles about electronic learning; published by the Association for Computing Machinery.
Electronic Journals library
Is a service to facilitate the use of scholarly journals on the internet. It offers a fast, structured and unified interface to access full text articles online.
Innovate Online
This peer-reviewed publication focuses on creative uses of technology in a variety of educational settings.
International Journal of Whole Schooling: The Journal aims to provide a place for many voices concerned with education and learning -- researchers, parents, teachers, students, community members, and policy makers.
T. H. E. Journal
This journal explores issues about technology and education in K-12 settings.
Web Based Resources
An Educational Gateway to the best Electronic Journals and Selected Websites by Lewis A. Armstrong, M.A., M.L.S. This Site is designed to assist busy faculty, teachers, students, and researchers.
Research Associations
American Educational Research Association, :
The American Educational Research Association (AERA), founded in 1916, is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and evaluation and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.
Australian Association for Research in Education,
The AER aims to promote understandings of educational issues through the publication of original research and scholarly essays.
British Educational Research Association,
The aim of the Association is to sustain and promote a vital research culture in education.
Canadian Society for the Study of Education,
The Canadian Society for the Study of Education is the largest organization of professors, students, researchers and practitioners in education in Canada. CSSE is the major national voice for those who create educational knowledge, prepare teachers and educational leaders, and apply research in the schools, classrooms and institutions of Canada.
European Educational Research Association,
EERA membership is made up of 20 national and regional Educational Research Associations from all parts of Europe.
Gateway to Research on Education in Europe, WIFO Gateway This website has emerged in the context of European research projects carried out by the Research Forum WIFO. It is an information service, free of charge, provided by researchers for researchers. From its beginning in 1997, the WIFO site has collected resources in the field of European education, with a focus on vocational education, more recently also including human resource development..
International Bureau of Education, The IBE's main mission is to act as UNESCO's centre specialized in contents, methods and structure of education. It builds networks to share expertise on curriculum development in all regions of the world and aims to introduce modern approaches in curriculum design and implementation, improve practical skills and promote informed policy dialogue at national, regional and international levels.
National Foundation for Educational Research,
Their aim is to improve education and training, nationally and internationally, by undertaking research, development and dissemination activities and by providing information services
New Zealand Council for Educational Research,
The New Zealand Council for Educational Research is an independent, educational research organization that provides educators, students, parents, policy makers and the public with innovative research, analysis and advice.
Nordic Educational Research Association,
NFPF/NERA is the main association for educational researchers in the Nordic countries. It is a basis for cooperation and development of educational research. It is open for everyone that has an interest in educational research in the Nordic context
Scottish Council for Research in Education,
Society for Educational Studies,
The aims of the Society are to discuss and promote study and research in Education
Swiss Co-ordination Centre for Research in Education,
It is active in the field of educational technology. TECFA's research covers a large area of interests, including: cognitive issues in learning technology, computer-supported collaborative learning, virtual learning environments, computer-mediated communication, information systems in education, and distance education.
Thematic Network on Teacher Education
The main objective is to establish a flexible multilingual trans-national forum for the development of teacher education in Europe linking together as many universities and other institutions as possible
Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association,
The Trans-European Research and Education Networking Association offers a forum to collaborate, innovate and share knowledge in order to foster the development of Internet technology, infrastructure and services to be used by the research and education community.
WestEd (Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development)
Success for every learner is our goal at WestEd. A nonprofit research, development, and service agency*, WestEd enhances and increases education and human development within schools, families, and communities.
Regional Educational Laboratories, National Network of
Links to all the Regional Educational Laboratories for educational research and development supported by the U.S. Education Department, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).The Regional Educational Laboratory Program is a network of ten laboratories that serves the educational needs of designated regions by providing access to high quality, scientifically valid education research through applied research and development projects, studies, and related technical assistance activities
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (formerly NICHCY)
NICHCY stands for the National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities. We serve the nation as a central source of information on: disabilities in infants, toddlers, children, and youth, IDEA, which is the law authorizing special education, No Child Left Behind (as it relates to children with disabilities), and research-based information on effective educational practices.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is a public voice of mathematics education, providing vision, leadership and professional development to support teachers in ensuring equitable mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students.
National Council for the Social Studies
Social studies educators teach students the content knowledge, intellectual skills, and civic values necessary for fulfilling the duties of citizenship in a participatory democracy. The mission of National Council for the Social Studies is to provide leadership, service, and support for all social studies educators
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs
OELA's National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA) collects, analyzes, synthesizes and disseminates information about language instruction educational programs for English language learners and related programs.
National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
CSE/CRESST has long contributed to the development of scientifically based evaluation and testing techniques, vigorously encouraged the development, validation and use of sound data for improved accountability and decision making, and aggressively explored technological applications to improve assessment and evaluation practice.
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8. NAEYC is committed to becoming an increasingly high performing and inclusive organization.
Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, UCSB (ISBER)
The Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research (ISBER) is
UCSB's Organized Research Unit for sponsored research in the social sciences and, to a lesser extent, other divisions of
the university. With over 130 principal investigators and 13 Research Centers, ISBER provides help with conceptualizing, finding funding for and administering projects.
International Society for Technology in Education
The (ISTE) is the trusted source for professional development, knowledge generation, advocacy, and leadership for innovation. A nonprofit membership organization, ISTE provides leadership and service to improve teaching, learning, and school leadership by advancing the effective use of technology in PK–12 and teacher education.
Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning
The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning is a public, not-for-profit organization dedicated to strengthening teacher development policy and practice. Our Web site features recent information on teacher development including research, state and national policy and legislative initiatives, and models for effective practice
Education in India
Gives research abstracts of researches conducted in India. These research abstracts are complied by CASE, Baroda.
NCERT
Gives surveys of Educational research.
Inflibnet:
gives database of Thesis and dissertation submitted
Devi ahilya Viswavidyalaya University
Gives 6th Survey of Research in Education.
42 Explore-. A whole list of activities, links, thematic ideas by topic and subject area.
ABC Teach – This website has activity ideas by topics, helpful teaching resources like assignment sheets, and forums for teachers to join.
AIMS Activities/Lesson Plans Sample activities from various AIMS publications. (AIMS=Activities Integrating Mathematics and Science)
Answers.com Lesson Plan Tools, Provides reliable facts and definitions without endless questionable links and wasted time. Simply type in a word or phraseand receive a comprehensive answer on that topic
Big Chalk – This website has great resources for parents, students, teachers, & librarian/media specialists. Get lesson plan ideas, read recommendations for a home computer, or find a on-line tutor.
BioClassroom You can search for biography online using this website.
Blue Web'N: A Library of Blue Ribbon Learning Sites on the Web An online library of internet sites searchable by subject, grade level, and format (lesson plans, activities, projects, resources, references, and tools).
Busy Teachers' Website – Provides links to great education sites by subject area. Also has lesson plan ideas and classroom activities you can use in your classroom.
California Dept. of Educ Standards – You will find the content standards for the State of California. Included are Math, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies, and Fine Arts.
Can Teach – This website is devoted to Elementary teachers. They contain tons of lesson ideas and resources to help the elementary teacher.
CEC Lesson Plans
Here we offer lesson plans created and contributed by teachers who've used them successfully in their classrooms and web-based teaching resources created as part of the ECHO projects abroad
Cornell Education Gateways
CTC is committed to providing a wide range of educational resources to the national community.
Crayola
This website has a lot of lesson plan ideas for using art in the classroom. You can search by art media, subject area, lenght of project, and/or grade level.
CultureQuest
Activities for exploring languages and cultures of the Hispanic world.
CyberChase
This website is designed with a variety of math lesson plan ideas for you to use. It has a parent and a teacher section. This is sponsored by PBS Kids.
CyberGuides
Developed by California educators, presents ready-to-use units of instruction on core works of literature at all grade levels.
Discovery Education Lesson Plan Library
View lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school students.
Economics Education
This website has great lesson ideas to introduce K-12 students to economics.
Ed Helper
This website has 10960 Lesson Plans, 1223 WebQuests, 5000 Free Worksheet Generators, 1600 Word and Critical Thinking Problems, Exams and Puzzles for Standardized Tests.
The educator’s reference Desk
This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and the world
Edcuational Resources and Lesson Plans,
This web page consists of thousands of links to lesson plans and other resources of potential use to current and future teachers. It also includes lesson plans and resources unique to this site.
EDSITEment Lesson Plans (National Endowment for the Humanities)
EDSITEment offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies.
Edu Web
Provides adventures in learning on art, science, and history. Interactive activities to use with your classroom by grade level.
Education in India:
The Intel® Teach to the Future program enables you to supplement your classroom teaching with the aid of technology. The integration of computers in your present curriculum to raise student learning and achievement begins with ready-to-use digital lesson plans.
Education Tool Kit
Get teacher resources, theme resources, library resources, and more on this website
Education World
This web site links to various education topics, K12 schools, Universities, Distance Learning, and Education articles.
Elementary Lesson Plans,
We now have over 3,500 free lesson plans! To find lesson plans that match your criteria, begin by selecting a subject, recent additions, or seasonal lessons in the box below, or search for specific topics.
EPA Teaching Center
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's web site for teachers includes lesson plans, activities, background information and links to environmental education sites
ESL Lesson Plans & Activities
This website has links to other great websites that provide lesson plans and teaching ideas to use with your ESL students.
eTap
This stands for Electronic Teaching Assistance Program. It has a collection of materials covering anything from Language Arts to Foregin Languages. It is a non profit agency dedicated to creating quality teaching materials for K-12 teachers.
Explore Math
If you are a Math teacher, you will love this website. It not only has lesson plans and activities relating to teaching Math, it has a wonderful section called, Gizmos. If you teach geometry, this site is a must!
Fun Lesson Plans
This website is geared to Preschool to -Kindergarten grade teachers. They have thematic lessons and activities that you can use in your classroom. Organized by subject area as well as by themes.
Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM)
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. They provide educators with access to thousands of educational resources such as lesson plans, curriculum units, etc.
GigglePotz
Don't get fooled by the title. This is a great website with lesson plans sorted by category. It is very well organized and easy to use.
Greentown Elementary Theme Units
Has lessons on various elementary units. Has links to websites that support each theme unit.
H.T. Coutts Library, Teacher’s Page Lesson Plans,
The H.T.Coutts Library is the primary resource library for the faculties of Education and Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta. The collections are of research strength.
History Channel Classroom
This site is of history channel and can be a god resource for history teacher
Houghton Mifflin Activity Search,
Houghton Mifflin Social Studies Lesson Ideas - Illuminations
IDEAS
Ideas stand for interactive dialogue with educators across the state. It provides Wisconsin educators with teacher reviewed, standards aligned lessons, interactive tools, video and other resources for use in curriculum development and classroom instruction.
Innovative Classroom
This website has lesson plan ideas, thematic units, classroom management ideas, as well as bulletin board ideas a reproducible for you to use in your classroom.
Intel
This site has free curriculum for math, science, and technology classes.
K-12 Lesson Plans in the Yahoo! Directory
Find a collection of sites offering lesson plans for teachers of kindergarten through high school. Subject areas include reading, spelling, language, ...
K-12 Project Based Learning Ideas
Interested in project based learning? This site has sample activities for K-12.
Kindergarten Connectin
Provides teacher tips and lesson plan ideas and links for the kindergarten classroom.
Kindergarten Kafe
This is an on-line magazine organized by months. They provide lesson ideas and activities you can use with your Kindergarten classroom by monthly themes.
Kodak Lesson Plans
This website is sponsored by Kodak. It provides tons of lesson plan ideas to integrate photography and visual elements into various subject areas.
Language Arts Curriculum
Developed by Joyce L. Morris, Assistant Professor at Univ. of Vermont for teachers of language arts. It has links to great language arts websites. It has lesson plans, web quests, and a frameworks section to help you meet language arts standards.
Language Arts Lesson Ideas
This website has a collection of lesson plans with handouts by Ray Saitz and many contributors; all of the lessons have been used and refined in the classroom. They have literature, writing, poetry, library lessons, as well as links to other great Writing websites.
Learn NC lesson plans
LEARN NC’s lesson plans span the wide range of curriculum areas for every grade from K to 12. Our collection includes the best instructional plans created by North Carolina educators as well as high-quality materials from state and national partners.
Learning Page
This website has lesson plans, worksheets, and activities for the preschool to third grade classroom. You do have to register to access their information.
Learning Page ... especially for Teachers
Lesson plans and activities for teachers using the Library of Congress American Memory collections of over seven million historical documents, photographs, maps, films, and audio recordings.
Lesson Plan Design Common Mistakes
This is a nice article that walks teachers through common mistakes when writing a lesson plan. This is a nice overview that goes over content as well as terminology related to writing a good lesson plan.
Lesson Plan Outline
This is sponsored by "The Educator's Reference Desk." This is a nice introduction to the different parts of a good lesson plan. There are also examples that you can view on-line from this website.
Lesson Plan Search
This website has tons of lesson plans sorted by categories, thematic units, printable pages, etc. You can even search for jobs off this website
Lesson Plan sites for K-12 Teachers
Sources of lesson plans on the Internet. ... Library of K-12 Science Lesson Plans - Actually this site offers more resources than lesson plans,
Lesson Plan Tutorial
This is a nice general tutorial to walk you through the different required parts of a good lesson plan.
Lesson plans 4 teachers
A complete guide to online lesson plans for K-12 Teachers
Lesson Plans and Curriculum,
The purpose of this web site is to provide free and low cost resources for school teachers, home school, and Christian children's ministry
Lesson Plans and Resources for ESL, Bilingual and Foreign Language Teachers
As the name suggest this provides resources to language teachers
Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers
has gathered lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find useful.
Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies,
It gives links to different websites.
Lesson Plans Page
Has over 1,500 free lesson plans for PreK-12 teachers.
Lesson Plans- Xpeditions @ national geographic.com
The lesson plans on this site were written by educators and have been tested in the classroom. Together, they address all of the U.S. National Geography Standards, the five geography skills, and the main geographic perspectives.
Lesson Planz
Great site to find articles, lesson ideas, teaching tips, and even get help from other teachers.
Lesson Tutor
You will find free lesson plans, unit studies and worksheets for all levels, all abilities and all subjects of Grade School and High School. Their featured articles will give you general teaching and learning encouragement, references and support. These are all free for you to print, use and circulate.
Lessons and Teaching Tips,
Nystromnet has been in the business of helping teachers teach and students learn for over 100 years. We pride ourselves on the simple fact that education is our only focus.
Library in the Sky Lesson Plans (Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory)
NWREL has been working to make a difference in students' lives and those who support their learning. NWREL is a private nonprofit working closely with schools, districts, and other agencies to develop creative and practical solutions to important educational challenges
List of ASSET's NTTI Lesson Plans, (03-16-00)
ASSET-Arizona School Services through Educational Technology as the educational outreach department for Eight/Arizona Public Television has helped Arizona PreK-12 educators integrate technology into their classrooms.
Math - Geometry
Sponsored by University of Virginia. If you use Geometer's Sketchpad or anything related to Geometry, you will love this site.
Math Forum
Provides links to other great math websites and other resources for teaching math.
Math Forum Teacher Exchange (Drexel University)
Provides online professional development opportunites for teachers
Math Lessons That Are Fun
Creative math lessons to use with your students. Created by Cynthia Lanius at Rice University.
Math Resources
This is sponsored by the University of Virginia. It has great links to interactive math websites that cover Algebra I, II, Calculus, plus more!
MathLine
Sponsored by PBS. This website presents video clips that take you on virtual visits to classrooms where teachers and students are engaged in standards-based math instruction.
Microsoft lesson plans for students and educators
Find new ways to enhance student learning through technology. Use the search tool below to find lesson plans and how-to articles for your relevant subjects, grade levels, and products. You can also browse the links below to find a sampling of the lesson plans from Microsoft by subject that cover grades K-12.
Mid Continent Research for Education and Learning
Links to selected lesson plans and other resources that are helpful for curriculum planning, including activities developed at McREL for specific benchmarks
Mrs. Young's Super Charged Educational Voyage,
The Educational Voyage web site is a large directory of educational links in all subjects for teachers, students and parents. Topics range from lesson plans, core knowledge, multiple intelligences, computer skills, computer technology, math, reading, children's safe internet fun, homework help, parenting skills, to teacher resources.
Multicultural Pavilion,
EdChange is dedicated to equity and justice in schools and society. We act to shape schools, organizations, and communities in which the full diversity of people have opportunities to live, learn, and thrive free from oppression
NASA Connect
Sponsored by NASA. This site is geared to teachers in grades 6-8. This site has lesson plans that are geared to help student learn math, science, and technology. Each lesson has a TV broadcast component, interactive web site, and a educator's guide to help teachers implement lessons in your classroom.
NASA Quest
NASA Quest offers a wide range of FREE online tools and resources for teachers, students, parents and others including Web and print lesson plans, educator guides and workbooks:
NASA's Sci Files
Sponsored by NASA. This site is geared to teachers in grades 3-5. This site has lesson plans that motivate students to become critical thinkers and active problem solvers. Each lesson supports math, science, and technology standards. Each lesson has a TV broadcast component, interactive web site, and a educator's guide to help teachers implement lessons in your classroom.
New Ideas and Educational Resources for Elementary School
This site gives professional development and classroom activities for teachers.
New York Times Daily Lesson Plan Archive
The archive contains hundreds of free lesson plans for grades 6-12. You may perform a keyword search to retrieve a lesson, browse the archive by subject, or scroll down the page to view the most recently published lessons.
Newton's Apple
Includes over 300 streaming video clips, as well as teacher activity guides on science topics.
NGA Classroom (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
This is site which helps students and teachers to connect to art and curriculum.
Ocean Explorer
NOAA Ocean Explorer is an educational Internet offering for all who wish to learn about
discoverer, and virtually explore the ocean realm. It provides public access to current information on a series of NOAA scientific and educational explorations and activities in the marine environment
Pitsco Resources for Educators
Get activities, lesson plan ideas, and links to other great websites, and much more on this website.
Pro Teacher
Has lesson plan ideas, teaching materials (some free), bulletin board ideas for teachers, and links to other good websites.
Reading (National Institute for Literacy)
This website has advice for parents and teacher on how to teach reading to preschool, K-3 students. Have pdf documents you can download from their research on how best to teach reading to kids.
S.C.O.R.E.
This web site lists resources, assessment tools information, standards and frameworks by subject area.
Science House
Its mission is to increase student enthusiasm for science by partnering with K-12 teachers to promote hands-on inquiry-based science learning. Our student science enrichment activities, teacher training programs, and curriculum-related programs link the research university to the needs of K-12 science and mathematics education. Science House hands-on learning activities include Science on the Road school demonstrations, laboratory technology workshops for teachers, long-term loans of laboratory equipment, summer student research programs, and development of learning materials.
Science Internet Quests
Each lesson emphasizes science inquiry and problem solving, as well as being designed with constructivism as a referent. The lessons come from a wide variety of sources.
Science NetLinks Lesson Index
Science NetLinks' role is to provide a wealth of standards-based resources for K-12 science educators, including lesson plans, interactives and reviewed Internet resources..
SEGway Lessons (Science Education Gateway)
SEGway is a group of educator-scientists working to present the latest astronomy and space science research to students, teachers, and the general public.
Sites for Teachers
Gives list of websites
SMILE Program (Math & Science K-12)
Sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology, this website has math and science lesson ideas for K-12 grades.
Smithsonian Educational Website
This website has lesson plan ideas connected to the Smithsonian Museum
Smithsonian Lesson Plans
Smithsonian lesson plans emphasize inquiry-based learning using primary sources and museum collections. Each plan is print-friendly and provides you with all the materials you need—photographs, reproductions, handouts, activities, suggested strategies, standards information, and additional online resources
Solution Site
This site currently holds over 700 interdisciplinary units. The lessons encourage problem solving activities and many are web-based units. There are hundreds of lesson plasn for grades K-12, all created by teachers. The lessons were created to promote problem solving, higher-order thinking, and collaboration skills among students.
Spencer Kagan's Cooperative Learning Site
Get tons of info about Spence Kagan's Cooperative Learning ideas
Success Link
This website has tons of lesson plans, cooperative learning ideas, proven teaching practices, technology leadership ideas, and even help for 1st year teachers.
Talk About Trees
Educating children about the responsible management and use of California's most renewable resource. This is good site for environmental education
Teacher Created Materials
This is a wonderful company that produces materials created by teachers for teachers. They also have a tip of the month page, lesson activity ideas, and more.
Teacher Link
You will find on this website a searchable database of annotated links to great educational resources on the World Wide Web. Also links to free teacher resources such as units, lesson plans, worksheets, multimedia, etc.
Teacher Planet
TeacherPlanet features over 350 theme based resource pages. Find these by searching our calendar or by Alphabetical Listing of all themes from A-Z below.
Teacher Planet: Lesson Plans 4 Teachers
A complete guide to online lesson plans for K-12 Teachers
Teacher Vision
TeacherVision® is dedicated to helping teachers save time. Find 17,500 pages of classroom-ready lesson plans, printables, and resources
Teacher’s Page of Lesson Plans,
Gives links to lesson plans as per the subject.
Teacher's First
Website has links sorted by subject and grade level, web tutorials, discussion groups for teachers, and professional resources for teachers.
Teachers Planet
Has tons of teaching resources from classroom supplies to curriculum resources. Has a tech section that covers ideas on integrating technology into your classroom.
Teachers.Net
This website has a chat board you can connect with other teachers, lesson plans, free printable dittos, and much more.
Teachers.Net Lesson Bank
Teachers.Net features over 4000 lesson plans and classroom ideas submitted by teachers just like you. Browse lesson plans by category, grade level, or search by keyword, and discover how the Teachers.Net community can make your planning easier and more rewarding.
Teaching K-8
The web site is based on the teacher magazine, Teaching K-8. Tons of teaching ideas.
Teaching Tips Index
Developed by Hawaii Community College. Great website that walks you through lesson plan procedures and steps.
TeachNet
This website was created by and for teachers. Includes more than 6,000 pages of teacher-developed curricula for Pre-K through 12th grade. Teachers can also get answers to any classroom subject matter within 48 hours.
Teachnet Com,
Gives links to lesson plans as per subject
Teach-nology
web portal for educators. Get links to great sites, teaching ideas, tutorials, etc. Provides technology information such as links to on-line tutorials.
The Virtual Schoolhouse
get ideas for classroom, art room, the library, and the computer lab. Take a field trip and even visit other schools on the web.
Theater Scripts
Timely Free Lesson Plans and Unit Plans for Your Teaching Needs ...
U.S. Geological Survey Education
UNICEF:
Units for Teachers
USGS Lesson Plans
Web English Teacher
Welcome to A to Z Teacher Stuff Lesson Plans:
Worksheet Library
Assessment Rubrics –
Grading Rubrics Overview –
Kathy Schrock Grading Rubrics Links –
Teach-nology Create Your Own Grading Rubric –
Rubri Star Rubric Generator –
Rubric Builder –
Rubric Links –
Rubrics for Teachers –
Sample Rubrics –
Africa South of the Sahara: Topics: Dissertations and Theses on Africa
American Historical Association: Directory of History Dissertations
American Indian in Graduate Studies Database
Australian Digital Theses Progarm
British Library Thesis Service
Caltech ETD database
CRL Catalog (Center for Research Libraries)
CityU Theses Online
Dissertations & Theses Collection (DTC)
Electronic Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities:
Electronic Theses and Dissertations available at NCSU Libraries
Since 1997, students have been able to submit an electronic version of their thesis or dissertation. On April 22, 2002, electronic submission became required. Electronic NC State theses and dissertations are accessible in the catalog as well as from this page.
E-thesis – electronic publications at the University of Helsinki
ETDs at Brigham Young University
etd@IISc (etd AT Indian Institute of Science)
This is the digital repository of Theses and Dissertations of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. You can search, browse and access theses and dissertations from this collection. This repository has been developed to capture, disseminate and preserve research theses of Indian Institute of Science. It complements ePrints @ IISc, the research publications repository of IISc. Total number of theses in etd@IISc: 327 in the month of November, 2008.
etds@vt
Search the title pages and abstracts of Electronic Theses and Dissertations that have been approved by the Virginia Tech Graduate School since 1995.
General Business Resources: Dissertations and Theses
INFLIBNET - Union database of Theses
New Jersey Environmental Digital Library (NJEDL)
NDLTD
OAIster
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
OpenDOAR: Directory of Open Access Repositories
PhdData: the Universal Index of Doctoral Dissertations in Progress
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR): E-Theses
The Electronic theses and dissertations system
National Central Library (NCL) is the national depository library of theses and dissertations. Ever since the Ministry of Education entrusted the NCL of this responsibility, the NCL has proceeded to put together original paper versions of theses and dissertations as well as preserve them and enable their access to our public readers. The NCL further developed theses and dissertations abstracts database, established online information file system, fulltext database, etc. in order to promote an integrated portal service of theses online information.
The Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
The University of Tennesse - Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Theses Canada.
University of Florida (UF Theses and Dissertations)
University of Kentucky Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The University of Kentucky offers all students submitting a thesis or dissertation the option of completing an electronic document (an ETD) instead of the traditional bound paper volume. The ETD satisfies all requirements of the Graduate School.
UNESCO Clearing House on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
Vidyanidhi Digital Library, University of Mysore Indian ETD Collection
Washington State University Research Exchange
West Virginia University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
West Virginia University has implemented a policy that all master's theses and doctoral dissertations are to be submitted electronically. This means that WVU no longer will accept paper copies of theses and dissertations. Electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) contribute to worldwide graduate education and unlock the under utilized results of graduate education for the scholarly community. The Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Initiative at WVU has several purposes, including helping students in their careers, helping other learners and researchers, and making available many scholarly works that are now inaccessible, such as theses that are only available through inter library loan.
Worldwide ETD Search
A global index of freely available electronic theses and dissertations, provided by major ETD collections around the world.
Citation machine
Easybib: Free bibliography maker in APA, MLA and Chicago Citation style
Advantageedu:
This is the open courseware in field of teacher educatio
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Irvine
Utah State University OpenCourseWare
Tufts University OpenCourseWare
Capilano University OpenCourseWare (Canada)
China Open Resources for Education (NGO)
Japan OpenCourseWare Consortium
United Nations University (Japan)
Tokyo Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare
National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (India)
Korea University OpenCourseWare
National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan)
ParisTech Libres Savoirs (France)
Grenoble Ecole de Management (France)
OpenCourseWare Universia (Spain)
Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico)
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Doors to Diplomacy
International Education Week
BETSY (automated essay scoring)
The College-Level Examination Program (CLEP)
Creating Effective Classroom Tests,
Free Online Tests, Contact: wordmasters(at)vocabtest.com
Practical Assessment Research and Evaluation (PARE)
SAT Prep Plan, Contact: kyle(at)satprepplan.com
Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences,
Ideas for Using Digital Cameras in the Classroom,
Information Technology as a Liberal Art,
The Learning Web at the U.S. Geological Survey,
Models for Student Web-Based Research
NetLearning: Why Teachers Use the Internet,
Looking for some theatre scripts you could use in your classroom? Check out this website. You can also use these for puppet plays.
Gives links to lesson plans as per the grade level
The U.S. Geological Survey provides scientific information intended to help educate the public about natural resources, natural hazards, geospatial data, and issues that affect our quality of life. Discover selected online resources, including lessons, data, maps, and more, to support teaching, learning, education (K-12), and university-level inquiry and research.
New UNICEF-themed lesson plans for grades 6-8 and 9-12 are now available—based on UNICEF's annual assessment of the world's most vulnerable children: The State of the World's Children. These lessons are designed to help students gain a deep knowledge of the issues facing children throughout the developing world, focusing on three main areas of study:
They provide you with a weekly update of thematic units available on the Internet.
This website sponsored by the USGS has a variety of online lesson plans for K-12. Covers life sciences, geography, and earth sciences.
Best online English/Language Arts teaching resources, lesson plans, web quests, videos, and classroom activities.
This section hosts a wealth of free online teaching resources, including reviews of over 2000 lesson plans. For teaching ideas, follow the lesson plans link and search by subject and key stage through TeacherNet, the National Curriculum or Schemes of Work.
Lots of teacher created worksheets available. Some require a small fee but they offer free worksheets also.
Nice introduction to using Assessment rubrics. Provides samples as well as links to rubric generators that you can use.
Nice overview about grading rubrics, advantages, types of grading rubrics, etc.
Tons of links to help you create rubrics for a variety of assignments.
A rubric generator that walks you throught creating a grading rubric.
This website also lets you create your own rubric. Has an easy rubric generator for you to use on-line. Has great examples for you to view.
This rubric generator will help you create your own rubric.
Tons of links to anything and everything you wnted to know about rubrics.
This website helps you understand what rubrics are and how you can use them to assess students. There is even a rubric generator that will help you create your own rubric.
Tons of sample rubrics for you to look at on almost every topic
Following is the listing of few databases on ETDs available on public domain via the Internet. Many of these databases from this list provide full text and few covers abstracts and bibliographical information.
An extensive list of Internet sources for obtaining dissertations and theses on Africa-related topics.
A searchable directory of history dissertations that have been completed or that are currently in progress in the United States and Canada since 1882. This directory is the merger of two previous online publications, Dissertations in Progress and the Directory of Completed Dissertations.
Includes all theses and dissertations containing at least one chapter on American Indians accepted between 1890 and 2002 by institutions located in the United States and Canada as well as selected Mexican research universities.
A national collaborative distributed database of digitised theses and dissertations produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities. Also includes some New Zealand theses. The ADT program is designed to improve access to, and enhance transfer of, the research information contained in theses by providing a full text version available from the desktop via the web. The retrieval is enhanced by the inclusion of metadata tags in the documents which are given a higher weighting by the more sophisticated search engines.
Information on locating and obtaining British theses dating mainly from 1970 to the present.
The Caltech ETD database is a series of web pages and perl scripts that interact with a MySQL database. These scripts provide a standard interface for web users and researchers. ETD authors, graduate school and library personnel to enter and manage the files and metadata related to a collection of electronic theses and dissertations.
CRL holds an extensive collection of dissertations from outside the U.S. and Canada, and will order titles not held if requested by Rutgers or any other member institution. The Dissertations subset of the catalog can be searched separately.
CityU Theses Online (CityUTO) provides online access to the abstracts and tables of contents of CityU research postgraduate theses and taught postgraduate dissertations available in the Library, dating back to 1990. The full text of all research postgraduate theses and some taught postgraduate dissertations is also available online to CityU staff and students.
Dissertations and Theses Collections (DTC) is an online union collection of Hong Kong postgraduate students’ doctoral and master dissertations and theses indexed in the online catalogues of seven university libraries in Hong Kong.
a directory of online references and resourcesThis site serves as a clearing-house for online information related to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in the humanities. The site's most important feature is a directory of most (maybe not quite all) of the ETDs that are currently in progress in the various disciplines that comprise the academic humanities. Among its other uses, I hope the material available here will be of aid to graduate students who are faced with securing approval and support for an ETD of their own. Audiences also include faculty who want to make informed decisions about supervising an ETD, as well as librarians, administrators, and academic publishers.
This site contains doctoral dissertations and other publications from the University of Helsinki. All of these full-text publications are freely accessible via the Internet.
An ETD (Electronic Thesis or Dissertation) is a digital document suitable for machine archives and worldwide access. It may incorporate such features as enhanced graphics, sound, and animation. In addition, ETDs enable users to perform comprehensive searches using words, phrases, or symbols. Graduate Studies and the Harold B. Lee Library make all ETDs easily available over the WWW.
RU Libraries Business Subject Research Guide.
Links to sources for dissertation lists related to business and to organizations that offer awards, grants, and prizes for Doctoral proposals and dissertations in business-related areas.
Theses database covers the bibliographic Metadata of Doctoral Theses submitted to 238 Universities/Institutes in India. It has over 2,19,074 unique records from all subject areas. This Data is contributed by participating Universities and we have collected more data from various reliable sources, university announcements etc. The database contains information pertaining to name of the researcher, title of the thesis, name of the guide, university name and year of award. The records are regularly being updated from different sources.
A searchable collection of environmental information from New Jersey's government agencies; research institutes; academic departments; and non-profit and non-governmental organizations. Includes information on Master's theses, Doctoral dissertations, and Undergraduate Honors theses.
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations. This website contains information about the initiative, how to set up Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) programmes, how to create and locate ETDs, and current research in digital libraries related to NDLTD and ETDs.
Searchable collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources including electronic dissertations and theses.
The ETD Center is a free, online database of Ohio’s masters and doctoral theses and dissertations from participating OhioLINK member schools. It contains the abstract for all included theses and dissertations. The full-text is also available if it was submitted. The ETD Center is freely accessible worldwide to anyone interested in searching, viewing, and downloading the theses and dissertations published in Ohio. Using a standard Web browser, users can search the database using basic keyword searching. Authors, university affiliation, and abstracts are all indexed.
A searchable list of repositories that archive electronic dissertations and theses.
An open academic community effort providing a searchable database of Doctoral dissertations in progress around the world. This site holds a database of doctoral dissertations in progress around the world. The site is an open academic community effort to avoid duplications in doctoral dissertations and Create the ultimate meeting place for researchers.
A registry of freely accessible electronic archives for theses and dissertations. Archives are listed alphabetically with additional access by country.
The Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill began to accept dissertations and theses electronically for graduation in the spring of 2006. Paper and electronic submissions will both be accepted through November 2007. For those graduating in May 2008, electronic submission is required and only electronic documents will be accepted.
UT thesis and dissertation
A searchable central access point for Canadian theses. Coverage begins with 1965.
Find records of UF Ph.D Dissertations and Master's Theses in the UF Library Catalog-- both print and online (ETD's -- Electronic Theses and Dissertations)
Electronic thesis and dissertation policy clearinghouse from UNESCO, featuring database of institutions, experts, and materials supporting and disseminating ETDs.
Vidyanidhi (Meaning 'Treasure of Knowledge' in Sanskrit) is India's premier Digital library initiative to facilitate the creation, archiving and accessing of doctoral theses. Vidyanidhi is an information infrastructure, a digital library, a portal of resources, tools and facilities for doctoral research in India. Vidyanidhi is envisioned to evolve as a national repository and a consortium for e-theses through participation and partnership with universities, academic institutions and other stake holders. Vidyanidhi enhances access to Indian theses and enlarges the reach and audience for Indian doctoral research works.
The WSU Research Exchange is a digital repository; a system to store digital information and its descriptive metadata.
Citation Machine is an interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties.
The Automatic Bibliography & Citation Maker
The internet is giving birth to a revolution in learning that is changing the way we educate ourselves in and beyond the classroom. E-learning initiatives such as OpenCourseWare (OCW) projects are aimed at making university-level course materials available online at no charge whatsoever.
The U. S. Department of State sponsors the "Doors to Diplomacy" educational challenge - to encourage middle school and high school students around the world to produce web projects that teach others about the importance of international affairs and diplomacy.
International Education Week is an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. This joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education is part of our efforts to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States