Social Sciences

This post is for all of you who would like to capitalize on the momentum of yesterday’s exciting Teaching and Learning Strategies presentations. Did you know that Falvey offers many discipline-specific teaching and learning journals? Check out highlights from some of these journals below.

College Teaching
Publishes peer-reviewed articles on how instructors across all academic disciplines can improve student learning. Each issue includes practical ideas and new strategies for successful teaching. Topics may range from research on teaching methods, educational technologies, classroom management, and assessment and grading, to faculty development, course design, and interdisciplinary teaching.

• Do Bosses Give Extra Credit? Using the Classroom to Model Real-World Work Experiences by Kristie L. Campana & Jamie J. Peterson, March 2013.
• The Use and Abuse of Cell Phones and Text Messaging in the Classroom: A Survey of College Students by Deborah R. Tindell & Robert W. Bohlander, December 2011.

Communication Education
Our mission at Communication Education is to publish rigorous, social science research related to these two focus areas: instructional communication and communication education.

• The teacher‐student relationship as an interpersonal relationship by Ann Bainbridge Frymier & Marian L. Houser, May 2009.
• Raising the Question # 9 Is the Student-Athlete Population Unique? And Why Should We Care? by J. Christopher Jolly, December 2007.

Teaching of Psychology
This indispensable journal offers creative and hands-on articles that help you use a variety of resources (for example, technology as a teaching tool) to enhance student learning.

• Promoting Knowledge Transfer with Electronic Note Taking, Andrew D. Katayama, R. Neal Shambaugh, Tasneem Doctor, April 2005.
• Ideal Teacher Behaviors: Student Motivation and Self-Efficacy Predict Preferences by Meera Komarraju, February 2013.

Teaching Sociology
From the American Sociological Association, Teaching Sociology publishes articles, notes, and reviews intended to be helpful to the discipline’s teachers. Articles range from experimental studies of teaching and learning to broad, synthetic essays on pedagogically important issues.

• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Applying Image-based Learning to Course Design, by Cameron T. Whitley, April 2013.
• Picture My Gender(s): Using Interactive Media to Engage Students in Theories of Gender Construction, by Carey Sargent and Sarah M. Corse, March 2013.

Journal of Teacher Education
Provides a vital forum for considering practice, policy, and research in teacher education. It examines some of the most timely and important topics in the field.

• What Makes Good Teachers Good? A Cross-Case Analysis of the Connection Between Teacher Effectiveness and Student Achievement, by James H. Stronge, Thomas J. Ward, and Leslie W. Grant, September 2011.
• Preparing Teachers for Culturally Diverse Schools: Research and the Overwhelming Presence of Whiteness, by Christine E. Sleeter, March 2001.

Counselor Education and Supervision
Publishes articles on research, theory development, and program applications with essential information for the preparation and supervision of counselors in various settings.

• Use of Ethnographic Fiction in Social Justice Graduate Counselor Training, by Rita Chi-Ying Chung & Fred Bemak, March 2013.
• A Constructivist Perspective for Integrating Spirituality Into Counselor Training, by Brian M. Shaw, Hannah Bayne, & Sonya Lorelle, December 2012.

Journal of Criminal Justice Education (available 1990-2011)
An official publication of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS). JCJE provides a forum for the examination, discussion and debate of a broad range of issues concerning post-secondary education in criminal justice, criminology and related areas.

• The “Write” Stuff: Simple Techniques: Designed to Teach Students How toAvoid Plagiarism, by Caroline W. Ferree & Heather L. Pfeifer, November 2010.
• Outside the Comfort Zone of the Classroom, by Brian Chad Starks, Lana Harrison, & Kathy Denhardt, June 2011.

Students are constantly looking for tests and measures to use as in their research and this 30 day  trial to PsycTESTS offers more than 2,000 standardized and published tests at  http://psycnet.apa. Take a look! Tell me what you think!

PsycTESTS serves as a repository for the full text of psychological tests and measures
as well as a rich source of structured information about the tests. A wide variety of test
types are included in PsycTESTS, including achievement and aptitude tests, intelligence
tests, tests of cognitive functioning, occupational tests, personality tests, and so on.

The database includes
■ The full text of psychological tests and measures, as available
■ Full bibliographic records and descriptive summaries of tests in each record
■ Descriptive summaries of commercially available tests with links to the publisher
■ A special interactive segment with tests from the Archives of the History of
American Psychology, for which APA has not yet identified literature

PsycTESTS includes three kinds of tests:

• Unpublished tests ( those developed by researchers for use in their work but not made commercially available)
• Tests from the Archives of the History of American Psychology at the University of Akron. These tests may not be literature based.
• Commercially available tests

All records in PsycTESTS are indexed and include fields for validity and reliability data
(when available), test purpose, construct, format, number of items, and more.

Falvey Memorial Library recently subscribed to a large package of social science journals from Sage Journals Online.  These titles are now available in full text online through library resources.

The My Tools feature of Sage Journals Online allows users to establish email alerts, saved searches, marked citations, and favorite journals through personal accounts.  If you need assistance setting up a personal account or taking advantage of these tools, please contact Kristyna.

Here are some highlights from the newly acquired titles from the Research Methods & Evaluation Collection.  Check back with this blog for more highlights from other disciplines!

Action Research
Holdings: 2003 – present
Action Research is an new international, interdisciplinary, peer reviewed, quarterly published refereed journal which is a forum for the development of the theory and practice of action research. The journal publishes quality articles on accounts of action research projects, explorations in the philosophy and methodology of action research, and considerations of the nature of quality in action research practice.

Qualitative Inquiry
Holdings: 1997 – present
Qualitative Inquiry (QIX) provides an interdisciplinary forum for qualitative methodology and related issues in the human sciences. The journal publishes refereed research articles that experiment with manuscript form and content, and focus on methodological issues raised by qualitative research rather than the content or results of the research. QI also addresses advances in specific methodological strategies or techniques.

Statistical Modelling
Holdings: 2001- present
Statistical Modelling’s primary aim is to publish original and high-quality articles that recognize statistical modelling as the general framework for the application of statistical ideas. Submissions must reflect important developments, extensions, and applications in statistical modelling. The journal also encourages submissions that describe scientifically interesting, complex or novel statistical modelling aspects from a wide diversity of disciplines, and submissions that embrace the diversity of applied statistical modelling.