Education Internet Guide
Selected Areas of Study (L - Z)
PLEASE NOTE: This section is continued from Selected Areas of Study (A - K).
This section includes sites which have been chosen for: their meta-information; the reputation of the compiler; the provision of links to other similar sites; and relevance to local curriculum, teaching and research.
Language, Literacy, and Foreign Language Teaching (including TEFL/TESL)
Database
- Language and Language Behaviour Abstracts (Available to University of Sydney staff and students)
Directories
- Linguistic Funland: Home of Resources for Language, Linguistics, and Language Teaching and Learning (Argus/Clearinghouse)
- Compiled by Kristina Pfaff-Harris. Sources arranged: e.g. exercises/activities for ESL; articles & essays; organisations & journals; e-conferences; ESL programmes & teacher training; ESL student projects; TOEFL and other testing information; etc.
Sites
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics
- ERIC/CLL "collects and disseminates information on current developments in education research, instructional methods and materials, program design and evaluation, teacher training, and assessment" in the following areas: foreign languages; English as a second or foreign language; bilingualism and bilingual education; psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics; theoretical and applied linguistics; intercultural communication and cultural education; study abroad and international exchange. The National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education -- NCLE operates in conjunction with ERIC/CLL, but focuses its efforts on literacy education for adults learning English as a second language.
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication
- Provides "educational materials, services, and coursework to support the language arts, as well as exemplary lesson plans extracted from publications in the clearinghouse's Bookstore."
- Indicators on Literacy (United Nations. Statistics Division. Social Indicators).
- Detail is provided for many countries. Also includes details of printed sources for information on literacy.
- National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research (Macquarie University, NSW, Australia)
- NCELTR is the Commonwealth's Key Centre for English Language Teaching and Research in Australia. The Centre was established at the University in 1988 with funding from the Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA), to support the Adult Migrant Education Program (AMEP) throughout Australia.
- National Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE)
- NCLE is an adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse at the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL), "focuses on literacy education, including family literacy, workplace literacy, and native language literacy, for adults and out-of-school youth learning English as a second language."
Topical: Literacy in Australia
- LANRC: Language Australia National Resource Centre
- The Language Australia National Resource Centre "provides access to collections of languages, literacy and cultures resources, and makes all Commonwealth-funded language, literacy and workplace materials available for the first time." Includes links to LANRC databases: ARIS Resource Collection of adult literacy and numeracy resources; Languages and Cultures Clearinghouse; Children's Literacy Projects Clearinghouse.
- LiteracyNet (Australia. Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs)
- Links to literacy information from across the education and training sector.
- Literacy Benchmarks Years 3 & 5 (Curriculum Corporation, Australia)
- This document includes "benchmarks in three aspects of literacy (writing, spelling and reading) at each of years 3 and 5. The benchmarks articulate nationally agreed minimum acceptable standards for literacy at years 3 and 5."
- Literacy and Numeracy (Commonwealth Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs).
- Literacy and numeracy school publications.
Note: Australian Bureau of Statistics publications: Details of National Literacy, Numeracy Perceptions: ABS Survey are available in Aspects of Literacy: Profiles and Perceptions, Australia (ABS 4226.0) and Aspects of Literacy: Assessed Skill Levels, Australia (ABS 4228.0).
Lesson Plans
- Lesson Plans (K-12) (Arizona State University)
- Gene Glass' collection of lesson plans for a wide range of subjects, includes link to ASKEric Lesson Plans.
- M-tech (M-tech and R. Gerryts, Canada)
- Includes useful resources (e.g. worksheets) and other links for teachers.
- Critical Thinking Lessons (United States)
- Includes K-12 sources, curriculum and lesson plans.
Methodologies for Educational Research
- AERA Educational Statisticians Special Interest Group (American Educational Research Association)
- Research Methods Page includes links to many different research and statistical methodologies.
- Qualidata: ESRC Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre ) (University of Essex)
- "This site provides information relating to the work of QUALIDATA and also provides links to other social science research resources."
- Qualitative Solutions & Research: Qualitative Data Analysis Solutions for Research Professionals (QSR Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia)
- Qualitative research information (including sections on NUD.IST).
- QualPage (OISE, University of Toronto)
- Contains a wide range of resources for qualitative researchers.
- Research Methods Resources (College of Education, Arizona State University)
- Maintained by the Measurement, Statistics, and Methodological Studies program in the Division of Psychology in Education, ..."the goal of this resource is to provide access to materials for thinking about, conducting, and teaching research methods as used in applied social/psychological/educational disciplines."
- Social Science Data on the Internet (University of California, San Diego)
- A collection of sites of numeric Social Science data, data catalogues, data libraries, social science gateways (over 127), addresses and more.
Philosophy
Database
- The Philosopher's Index (Philosophy Documentation Center)
- Philosopher's Index (Available to University of Sydney staff and students).
Directories
- Philosophy (Humanities) (Galaxy)
- Philosophy (WWW Virtual Library)
Sites
- American Philosophical Association
- Australasian Philosophy Network
- "APnet is a cooperative group of web sites, providing a range of information for and about the philosophical community in Australia and New Zealand."
- Philosophy Resources (Social Science Information Gateway, United Kingdom)
- A wide range of philosophy links and sources-world wide.
- Philosophy - World Wide Web Resources (University of Kentucky)
- A world wide range of philosophy sources.
- Resources of Scholarly Societies - Philosophy (Scholarly Societies Project, University of Waterloo)
Philosophy of Education
- Philosophy of Education (Philosophy of Education Society, Dept. of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Provides access to the Philosophy of Education Yearbook (which includes papers that are accepted for the annual meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society. Includes links to e.g. Educational Theory Home Page; EPS Professional Information Page; Philosophy of Education Society; and PHILOSED (a listserv dedicated to ongoing discussions in philosophy of education).
Psychology
Database
- PsycINFO (American Psychological Association)
- PsycInfo (Ovid connection available to University of Sydney staff and students)
Directories
- Psychology (Social Sciences) (Galaxy)
Sites
- American Psychological Association PsychNET (SM)
- Australian Psychological Society
- Includes links to many psychology sources on the Internet.
- Cognitive & Psychological Sciences on the Internet (Stanford University)
- Psychology Resources World Wide (Social Science Information Gateway, United Kingdom)
- Psychology World-Wide Web Resources (University of Kentucky)
- Resources of Scholarly Societies - Psychology (Scholarly Societies Project, University of Waterloo)
Educational Psychology
Directories
- Educational (Psychology) (Galaxy)
Sites
- Child Development - World-Wide Web Resources (University of Kentucky)
- Many links to sources on children and families.
The following three sites should be used in conjunction with Guide to the Internet: Educational Psychology, (to accompany Educational Psychology: Effective Teaching, Effective Learning) J. S. Bissell with S. N. Newhoff, Madison: Brown & Benchmark, 1996.
- Educational Psychology (Brown & Benchmark Publishers, United States)
- Resources are arranged: tools for exploring the Internet; what's new; Internet resources for educators (databases; instructional resources--lesson plans, learning projects, instructional materials; online journals; and additional information sources); communications and general interest topics (list of listservs, educational conferences, grants, etc.); and educational psychology topics (perspectives on teaching, development of students, diversity in schools and classrooms, learning theories and practices, design and management of classroom instruction, and assessing learning and evaluating instruction).
- Educational Psychology: Educational Psychology Topics (Brown & Benchmark Publishers, United States)
- Resources are arranged according to the primary topics in Educational Psychology: Effective Teaching, Effective Learning by S. Elliott, et al., 2nd. ed. Madison, Wis.: Brown & Benchmark, 1996: perspectives on teaching; development of students; diversity in schools and classrooms; learning theories and practices; design and management of classroom instruction; and assessing learning and evaluating instruction.
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Teacher and Teacher Education
- Clearinghouse "collects abstracts, and indexes education materials for the ERIC database; responds to requests for information in the subject areas of teaching; teacher education; and health, physical education, recreation, and dance (HPERD); and produces special publications on current research, programs, and practices." (Located at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education).
The adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Clinical Schools ADJ/CL "provides sources of information on professional development schools (PDSs), professional practice schools, clinical schools, partner schools, and similar institutions. ADJ/CL acquires, abstracts, and indexes literature on professional development schools for the ERIC database; produces bibliographies, periodic papers, digests, and other material on PDS issues, and conducts research on PDSs." - The Institute for Constructivist Theories of Learning
- "For practitioners engaged in restructuring who are striving to fulfil the vision of a Learning Centered educational environment for all children." Resources for constructivist approaches are categorised: Authentic task/performance based assessment; cooperative learning; and shared decision making.
- Jean Piaget Society Homepage
- "An international, interdisciplinary membership of scholars, teachers and researchers interested in exploring the nature of the developmental construction of human knowledge. The Society's aim is to provide an open forum, through symposia, books, and other publications, for the presentation and discussion of scholarly work on issues related to human knowledge and its development." Links to other Internet Sites includes: associations and societies; search engines and resource lists; journals and other electronic publications; universities and psychology departments; topical pages (.e.g. Vygotsky Internet resources; debate between Piaget and Vygotsky; etc.).
- School Psychology Resources Online (Sandra Steingart, Baltimore, Md)
- Links to sources categorised: anxiety disorders, behavior conduct disorders, attention deficit disorder, deaf/hard of hearing, autism, learning disabilities, assessment/evaluation, adolescence, violence, mental health, special education, suicide, and many more.
- Self-concept Research Centre (University of Western Sydney, Macarthur).
- The SELF Centre "seeks to identify strategies to optimise self-concept and facilitate the attainment and understanding of other valued outcomes in a variety of settings."
- Teaching Educational Psychology
- American Educational Research Association, Special Interest Group.
Topical: Inquiry Based Approach (Case/Problem Based Learning)
- Case-Based Reasoning
- A product of "Engines for Education" (Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University). ILS is an "interdisciplinary research and development center dedicated to developing and transferring innovative educational technology from the laboratory to practical applications in businesses, schools, government agencies, and the community."
- CBR MED (Artifical Intelligence Laboratory, University of Chicago)
- CBR-MED is an Internet mailing list for discussion of case-based reasoning applied to Medicine. Includes links to web sites and discussion lists that apply case-based methodology to a range of disciplines.
- International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
- The domain name is registered by InterNIC for the International Conference on Case-based Reasoning to asssure a continuity of Internet access to ICCBR information independent of the conference location.
- Learning Focus (University of Technology, Sydney, Centre for Learning and Teaching).
- Links to a range of sites, on for example: student centred learning; problem based learning; active learning; group based discussions; enquiry based learning; conceptual understanding; peer learning, to name a few.
Sociology
Database
- Sociological Abstracts
- Sociofile (Ovid connection available to University of Sydney staff and students)
Directories
- Sociology (WWW Virtual Library)
- Sociology (Social Sciences) (Galaxy)
Guides
- Social Work & Social Policy Guide (P. Crosbie, University of Sydney Library)
- The purpose ...."is to facilitate access to Internet Resources within the Social Sciences, particularly in the fields of Social Work, Social Policy, Anthropology, Sociology and Aboriginal & Gender Studies. The Guide also includes a number of key research areas within the above fields for example Child, Youth & Family Studies and Immigration, Migration & Demography. The Guide provides links to websites which contain many types of information including full-text documents, directories of Internet resources, reference resources and information about the publications & activities of academic and research organisations.The Guide links to some key Australian Government resources, both state and federal."
Sites
- American Sociological Association
- Sociological Research Online
- Publishes "high quality applied sociology, focusing on theoretical, empirical and methodological discussions which engage with current political, cultural and intellectual topics and debates."
- Sociology Resources on the Internet (McMaster University, Canada)
- Links to a range of subjects e.g. family, gender, Manheim Centre, Marx/Engels, post-modern culture, qualitative methodology, women's studies, etc.
- Sociology Resources World Wide (Social Science Information Gateway, United Kingdom)
- Descriptions of and links to a range of sociology resources world wide.
- SOCNET: Index to Sociology Courses and Curricula Resources on the Internet (McMaster University, Canada)
- SocNet, the global listing of sociology courses and curricular resources is integrated with the WWW Virtual Library: Sociology. Courses are categorised e.g. theories of inequality, methods and statistics, political economy, gender, etc. curricula resources include the Cultural Studies Centre, death and dying, feminist, Dead Sociologists' Society (lists theorists, biographical information, and a summary of their work e.g. Comte, Marx, Spencer, Durkheim, Simel, Weber, Veblen, Cooley, Mead, Park, Parto, Sorokin). Sociological Links includes Durkheim Pages, Marx/Engels Archives, Marxism, sociology of knowledge, etc.
- Resources of Scholarly Societies - Sociology (Scholarly Societies Project, University of Waterloo)
- Sociology Departments, WWWVL (United Kingdom)
- Sociology Departments, WWWVL (United States)
Sociology of Education
- American Sociology Association: Sociology of Education Section
- The purpose... "is to foster the development of this aspect of sociology and its application through the study of the ways in which formal schooling influences individuals and the ways society affects educational institutions."
Special Education
Database
- ECER: Exceptional Child Education Resources (Available to University of Sydney staff and students)
Directories
- Special Education (Galaxy)
Sites
- Deaf Education Web Site (Council on Education of the Deaf, Kent State University)
- This Internet site "facilitates the identification and sharing of information, questions and collaborative opportunities concerning the education of deaf/hard- of-hearing students (d/hh)."
- Dyslexia Archive (United Kingdom)
- Includes many sites from the United Kingdom and world wide.
- ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
- ERIC/EC focuses on the professional literature, information, and resources relating to the education and development of persons of all ages who have disabilities and/or who are gifted.
Note: Office of Special Education Programs' publication Research Connections. - Gifted Resources Home Page (Eskimo North Inc.)
- "Contains links to all known online gifted resources, enrichment programs, talent searches, summer programs, gifted mailing lists and early acceptance programs, including CTY, EPGY, CTD, NRC/GT, TIP, RMTS, ERIC, NCSSSMST, Odyssey of the Mind, and many others."
- National Transition Alliance for Youth with Disabilities Consortium
- Aims "to promote the transition of youth with disabilities toward desired postschool experiences, including gainful employment, postsecondary education and training, and independent living."
- Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (Disabled People's Association, Singapore)
- Includes information about the Association, organisations for the blind worldwide, and links to information about visual impairment, specific eye conditions and suggestions on how sighted people can help.
- Special Education (Curry School of Education, University of Virginia)
- Includes many resources and links categorised as: Special education information (information about special education history, events, interventions, etc.); Resources on the Internet (special education and disability); Categorical information (categories of disability); and Parents.
- Special Education and Disabilities Resources (Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center, Drake University, Iowa)
- Includes many resources and links for e.g. Americans with Disabilities Act; ADD/ADHD; Autism; Brain Injury; Early Childhood; School Violence; Special Education Monitoring; Transition and School to Work; Visual Disabilities, etc.
- Special Education Resources on the Internet (Hood College, Frederick, Maryland)
- An extensive and diverse resource of many sites (worldwide) categorised: General Disabilities Information; University Based Information; Disability Products and Commercial Sites; National Organizations; Legal & Law Resources; Parents & Educator's Resources; Special Education Discussion Groups; Medicine and Health; Mental Retardation; Hearing Impairment; Physical and Health Disorders; Behavior Disorders; Learning Disabilities; Vision Impairment; Attention Deficit Disorder; Autism; Speech Impairment; Gifted and Talented; Special Needs and Technology; Psychology; Inclusion Resources; Transition Resources.
Statistics (Education and Education Related)
Note: Other sources for education statistics include government departments and tertiary institutions. Many of these bodies publish statistical information on the Internet. See under the names of individual bodies accessible through: Official Information on Education: Australia: Official Sources . . .; and . . . Statistics; Other Countries' Departments/Ministries of Education; and Universities, Colleges, TAFE, Courses, Personnel, Schools.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics, ABS WWW Site
- Infonation (United Nations)
- InfoNation includes up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations. E.g. Social Indicators includes the areas of education and literacy. Also includes a facility to select up to seven countries and correlate specific statistics and other data fields.
- OECD Statistics
- United Kingdom. Higher Education Statistics (Higher Education Statistics Agency)
- United States. Census Bureau Home Page
- United States. National Center for Education Statistics
Vocational Education
Database
- Vocational Education and Training Database (Australia)
Directories
- Vocational Education (Magellan)
Sites
- Australia. Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs. Training Division.
- The role of the Division is to "develop a national vocational education and training system in which publicly funded, private and industry providers can operate effectively, efficiently and collaboratively and which meets the needs of industry and individuals."
- Australia. National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)
- The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) is Australia's principal research and evaluation organisation for the vocational education and training (VET) sector in Australia. NCVER has four broad areas of activity: "undertaking and encouraging research, evaluation and development in VET which is of national significance; collecting and disseminating TAFE and other VET statistics, including apprenticeship and traineeship statistics; disseminating VET information through ongoing projects, library and Clearinghouse activity, conferences, workshops, sales of printed publications and maintenance of this internet site; providing ad hoc services including research, development and implementation assistance on a commercial consulting basis."
- Australian National Training Authority
- ANTA is a Commonwealth Statutory Authority responsible for the development of a national vocational education and training system in cooperation with State and Territory Governments, the Commonwealth Government and industry.
- Beyond Cinderella: Towards a Learning Society: Report on the Inquiry into the Developments into Adult and Community Education Since 1991. Canberra: Senate Employment, Education and Training References Committee, 1997. (Chair: R. Crowley).
- New South Wales. Board of Adult and Community Education
- "Role is to promote the provision of adult and community education in NSW, to allocate government funds to ACE providers in NSW and to advise the Minister of needs and trends in ACE."
- New South Wales. Board of Vocational Education and Training.
- "As the state training agency for NSW, ...role is defined by 1994 legislation,...the Board is the central source of advice to the Minister on vocational education and training matters."
- New South Wales Department of Education and Training. NSW Training Market Commitment
- ......"working in parternship with industry to ensure the training system is relevant, flexible and innovative, to position NSW at the leading edge of social and economic development."
- New South Wales Department of Education and Training. Education Access
- ......"working with community organisations to maximise opportunities for people with specific needs through education, training and employment. Includes: community language; disabilities; intervention support; aboriginal community program; youth; and mature workers."
- New South Wales Department of Education and Training. Training and Development Centre
- The Centre has been in operation since 1992 as part of the DET, and specialises in the provision of training and development programmes for personnel across all government sectors.
- OTEN: Open Training and Education Network (Australia)
- "OTEN delivers a wide range of training and education courses through distance education and flexible delivery to technical and further education students, schools and outside organisations. It provides custom-designed workplace training for business clients and develops computer- and satellite-based learning programs, and has a range of off-the-shelf training products which are available to other organisations."
- TAFE: Technical and Further Education (New South Wales Department of Technical and Further Education)
- "Australia's largest vocational educator and trainer...". Includes, TAFE NSW World Wide Web Sites, and much more.
- Vocational Education and Training (EdNA: Australia)
- Search "vocational" through EDNA'S search facility for predominantly Australian sites on vocational education.
- Vocational Education and Training Bibliography (R. Hurrell, P. Hiley, P. Sheffield, and University of Leeds, United Kingdom).
- This bibliography is on aspects of vocational education and training as presented in United Kingdom periodical literature between 1990 and 1995.
Note: Australia. Senate Employment, Workplace Relations, Small Business and Education Committee. An Inquiry into the Quality of Vocational Education and Training in Australia. Aspiring to Excellence: Report into the Quality of Vocational Education and Training in Australia. Canberra: The Committee, 2000. (Chair: Jacinta Collins). ..."the effectiveness of the vocational education and training sector in developing the educational skills of the Australian people and the skills information and productivity of the Australian workforce. . ."
Youth
- Australia. Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs. Youth Division.
- Details of youth programmes and issues addressed by the Division.
- Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies
- The Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies "collects and publishes information on youth issues, primarily through its quarterly journal, Youth Studies Australia. Other ACYS activities include: the publication of books; NYARS Reports (National Youth Affairs Research Scheme) and the electronic newsletter, Youth Field Xpress; provision of online resources and information on youth; and organisation of symposia."
- Youth Affairs Research Network (Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne)
- YARN provides information about youth-related research in Australia. It consists of this web site (with links to other useful sites) and an electronic Mailing List.
- YouthNet: The Electronic Guide to Opportunities for Young People in the UK (United Kingdom)
- Provides information and assistance to youth in the UK. Youth around the world includes international, European and North American sources.
