Find Articles on the Scholarship of Teaching
brought to you by the Center
for Instructional Development & Research
(CIDR) and the University
Libraries
CIDR provides additional information on the Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning
This resource is designed to help UW instructors access the scholarly
literature on teaching and learning in their disciplines. This page
provides links to the following:
- A list of journals, by discipline, that address topics of teaching and
learning, and
- Resources for searching for articles in these or
other journals
- Information on
Search databases that index journal articles
Conducting a search in one or more of these databases which combines
search terms for your topic, discipline, or pedagogical approach will
retrieve article citations, abstracts, and in some cases, links to
electronic full-text of the article itself. Some databases to search are
suggested here but you can also browse the Browse Subjects section
of the Libraries Information Gateway for additional discipline-specific
periodical databases.
A few sample searches are illustrated
- ERIC
- Sponsored by the US Dept of Education with coverage back to 1966, this
database consists of two files: the Resources in Education (RIE) file of
document citations and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE)
file of journal article citations from over 750 professional journals.
Search terms from the ERIC Thesaurus to consider
combining with terms describing your discipline: college instruction,
college curriculum, instructional design, instructional effectiveness,
teaching methods (more specific terms include case method, clinical
teaching, learner controlled instruction, lecture method, discovery
learning), distance education, cognitive objectives, affective objectives,
behavioral objectives.
- PsycINFO
- Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters,
books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological
aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing,
sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology,
business, and law. Search terms from the PsycINFO
Thesaurus to consider combining with terms describing your
discipline include: college teachers, teaching, teaching methods,
learning, experiential learning, lecture method, directed discussion
method, computer assisted instruction.
- Web of
Science
- Includes the three citation indexes, Science Citation Index, Social
Science Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index with
coverage back to 1975. In addition to searching for articles on a topic,
if you have a specific article you can search to see what articles have
cited it. With any search result you can utilize built-in links
to explore the network of cited work related to a specific article.
Times Cited will link to articles that have cited the article
citation displayed; the Find Related Records button will bring up
articles that share bibliographic references with the citation displayed.
Notification services
The University Libraries provides notification services that allow you to
be automatically notified by email of new materials that match your
profile.
- Zephyr
- Establish a Zephyr profile to be notified of new materials
added to the University Libraries Catalog
- Ingenta
REVEAL
- You can choose to have the table of contents for specific journals
sent to you as new issues are added to the database, or you may establish
a subject profile which will generate an email of article citations each
month. Draws upon a database of over 11 million citations from more than
26,000 journals, with coverage back to 1988.
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