November 30, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests In Print (EBSCO) provides a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Providing information for the complete evaluation of tests in the disciplines of psychology, education, business and leadership this database helps users to make knowable judgments and informed selection decisions. This database will be useful to graduate students and faculty looking for testing instruments to use in their research.
Find the link to this database on the Tests and Evaluation Measures Tab of the Education Subject Guide:
http://guides.lib.byu.edu/content.php?pid=38325&sid=446151
If you need any help with this or other library databases please contact the Education subject librarian Rachel Wadham: Rachel_Wadham@byu.edu
November 23, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
What is an RSS feed?:
Life is busy, and we all have a great deal to keep up with everyday. A useful way to keep up to date with newly posted information on this or any other blog is to set-up RSS feeds. (RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.”) You can “sign-up” for blogs to send you RSS feeds. Though your RSS reader or email account you will be notified of new posts to the blog without having to check the blog regularly.
How to set-up an RSS feed:
To set-up an RSS feeds, just a follow these steps:
- Find the RSS symbol at the top of bottom of the blog page and click on it. It looks like this:
- From there, you will be taken to a page that will ask you were you would like to establish this feed (i.e. Live Bookmarks, Bloglines, My Yahoo, or Google). Click on one of the options from the drop-down menu and answer the one or two preference questions that follow.
- Your feed will then be set-up to send you short summaries of information when an update is made to the blog.
November 16, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Today is “Have a Party With Your Bear Day” – so if you are going to party why not read a good book. Here are some new juvenile books that any bear would enjoy for a read aloud at their party.
Bedtime for Bear by Brett Helquist. New York : Harper/HarperCollins Publishers, 2011. Call number 813 H36911bed
Bug and Bear by Ann Bonwill. New York : Marshall Cavendish Corp., 2011. Call number: 813 B6442011buga 2011
Maudie and Bear by Jan Ormerod. Prahan, Vic. : Little Hare Books, 2011. Call number: 823 Or5mb 2011
Bear & Chook By the Sea by Lisa Shanahan. Melbourne : Lothian Children’s Books/HachetteAustralia Pty Ltd, 2010. Call number: 823 Sh184222bea 2010.
Moon bear by Breanda Z. Guiberson. New York: Holt, 2010. Call number: 599.78 G94m 2010
November 9, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
ebrary, a major distributor of eBooks, recently announced that they have added new e-books to their open access collection on cyberbullying. This collection, which is subsidized by ebrary, now includes over 100 titles, that will help parents, educators, and others better understand, prevent, and take action against this growing concern.
Newly added titles include Cyberbullying: Activities to Help Children and Teens to Stay Safe in a Texting, Twittering, Social Networking World, by Vanessa Rogers (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010) and Banishing Bullying Behavior: Exploring the Culture of Pain, Rage and Revenge, by Suellen Fried and Blanche E. Sosland (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2010).
Visit the site here: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/cyberbullying/home.action
You may also register for the site to help them better understand its usefulness by clicking here: http://www.tfaforms.com/216765
November 3, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Check out these new books in the HBLL dealing with the challenges faced by English Language Learners in the current school environment:
Strategic attention in language testing: metacognition in a yes/no business English vocabulary test by Dieter Thoma. Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2011. Call number: PE 1114 .T49 2011
Teaching English in multilingual contexts: current challenges, future directions. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011. Call number: PE 1128 .A2 T433x 2011
Overtested: how high-stakes accountability fails English language learners by Jessica Zacher Pandva. New York : Teachers College Press, 2011. Call number: PE 1128 .A2 P287 2011
October 26, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
DAWCL is a free website that contains almost 8,000 award-winning, English language titles that have each received one of seventy-nine awards presented in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, or Ireland. Most entries have summaries, and all can be searched for by reader’s age, setting, historical period, keyword, format, genre, gender of protagonist, award, year of publication, and more. Intended for use by teachers and librarians, this database is also helpful for parents and students who are searching for quality juvenile literature.
DAWCL
October 19, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) website provides an informative index to collections of online ESL resources. These resources include their free downloadable digests cover topics from immersion programs to education policy. Also provided are links to databases and directories such as the foreign language assessment directory with information about over 200 tests in 90 languages. Full of useful tidbits and informative information these online resources will provide some valuable collections for ESL instructors.
http://www.cal.org/resources/onlineresources.html
October 12, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Because the HBLL has purchased a license to the Chronicle of Higher Education, we make available to all campus faculty, Academe Today, The Chronicle’s free daily e-mail report. This popular e-mail newsletter, which summarizes the latest news in higher education and provides links to the complete news articles posted on The Chronicle’s Web site every day.
The daily briefing also summarizes the news, career advice, and essays published in the current issue of The Chronicle’s print edition and provides links to the full text of each week’s issue on our Web site.
Signing up is simple:
* Go to https://chronicle.com/services/?slm to create a free
Chronicle account, or log in if you already have an account.
* Choose the format in which you want to receive Academe
Today–either HTML or plain text.
* Once you have confirmed your e-mail address, you’ll receive your
own copy of Academe Today the next weekday morning (Eastern Time).
When you sign up for Academe Today, you can also subscribe to other free Chronicle e-mail newsletters.
October 5, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) is an superior resources that provides a one stop index to teaching and learning resources provided by federal agencies. The scope of this website covers all content areas and offers unique resources that can be applied in many different classroom situations. Here is just one of those many resources:
Dancer’s Journal: Learning to Perform the Dances of Martha Graham, from the Kennedy Center’s Artsedge shows scrapbook items of a dancer learning dances of Martha Graham. Teachers and students can hear music and see video clips, including one of Graham herself perform movements from “Lamentation.” Other featured works include “Appalachian Spring” and “Errand into the Maze.”
http://free.ed.gov/resource.cfm?resource_id=1901
September 29, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
National statistics show that in 2009 8% of students aged 16-24 will drop out of high school. If this statistic is concerning to you then check out some of these books we have in the HBLL:
High school dropout, graduation, and completion rates : better data, better measures, better decisions. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2011. Available in full text though the libraries books and more search or at call number LC 146.6 .H54 2011
Dropouts in America : confronting the graduation rate crisis by Gary Orfield. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Education Press, 2004. Call number LC 143 .D76x 2004
Dropout or diploma : a socio-educational analysis of early school withdrawal by Abraham J. Tannenbaum New York : Teachers College Press. Call number LC 146 .T3
Fractured transitions from school to work : revisiting the dropout problem by Julian Tanner. Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. Call number LC 146.8 .C2 T36 1995
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