Dr. Maddy’s PTE 3163 – Developmental Psychology

Hello,

My name is Paul, and we talked Wednesday morning, November 4th, about researching PASS objectives.  What follows are annotated links to the resources we used.

Oklahoma State Department of Education PASS Objectives. Priority Academic Student Skills organized by subject, grade, and discipline, downloadable in PDF.

The Library Catalog. Searches the materials held at Chambers Library.

PsycInfo. Comprehensive database for psychology materials.

ERIC. Education Resources Information Center.  Articles and other  materials on all aspects of education.

Need Help? Just Ask Us! for more assistance!

-Paul

Dr. Jackson’s PTE 5383 Course– MMY

Welcome!

This instruction contains an overview of Mental Measurements Yearbook and its finding tool Tests in Print.

What is Mental Measurements Yearbook?

Mental Measurements Yearbook, or MMY for short, reviews test instruments. Before MMY, researchers had no way of knowing whether a test accurately measured what it was supposed to measure. MMY norms a test.

What is “Norming?”

Norming assesses a test’s validity and reliability:

• Validity: The test measures what it is supposed to measure
• Reliability: The test returns consistent results

MMY entries usually include 2 reviews of the test.

MMY in Print

The MMY in print was first published in the 1930’s, with successive editions in the years following. There are currently 17 editions of MMY in print. The library owns all editions. They are located on 1st floor north.

MMY Electronic

Mental Measurements Yearbook. An electronic version of MMY became available several years ago to the joy of researchers everywhere! The electronic edition contains the full text of all reviews starting with the ninth edition of MMY.

SEARCH TIP #1: If you don’t have a test in mind, type in your keywords to start, but consider using broader keywords if you retrieve no records. Example: class size measures the classroom environment. The broader term environment should retrieve more reviews.

SEARCH TIP #2: Go to the Refine Search tab and and select “Also search within the full text of the articles.” This change should increase the number of records retrieved.

Finding Reviews before the Ninth Edition

Tests in Print in print and electronic format serves as a finding tool for reviews prior to the 9th edition.

Tests in Print electronic. Search in the electronic format. The entries will direct you to the edition of the print MMY for a review.

Tests in print in print. These are located with the MMY on the Reference collection on the 1st floor of the library, north side. Ask at the reference desk for assistance using these volumes.

Finding the Actual Test

MMY reviews tests, but it doesn’t provide the actual test. Part on an MMY entry includes information to purchase tests along with reviews. Chambers Library owns a few tests available for your class to view. To look at a list of available tests. Search the library catalog by call number with the call number “test” in the search box. Watch this video for a demonstration.

Need more help? Ask Us!

Dr. Green’s PTE 5013– MMY & TiP Class

Well, like I promised, here’s a blog posting about your class this evening.

First things first…

The Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) The purpose of the Yearbook is to provide evaluative information to promote informed test selection. Typical test entries include descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references.

To be included, a test must be:

1.) commercially available

2.) be published in the English language

3. ) and be new, revised, or widely used since it last appeared in the series.

The MMY in print in the Reference Collection goes back to the first volume and up to volume 15. The library’s MMY online subscription provides coverage from volume 9 to the present (vlme. 17).

Also, remember your “Advanced Search” tab in the electronic MMY:

This can allow you to do all sorts of funky things like search only certain yearbooks, test categories, publication years, etc.

So, if you’re really want to impress your professor, I might suggest taking a look at her own reviewed tests

Now, what about those Tests in Print?

What is Tests In Print?

Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Information includes test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). Tests in Print also guides readers to candidly critical test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook series.

Now, remember, TiP does NOT contain test reviews, but it will give you quick information about tests such as publisher information, test time, scores, etc.

It will also give you something called a “cross reference” which will tell you where in the MMY you can find a review for the test you’re looking at.

For this cross reference, TiP is telling you to go to the 14th edition of MMY and then to test number 54 for the test review.

If you ever see a T before a number such as T3:153– This is a cross reference to another Tests in Print edition; thus, you would need to go to Tests in Print edition 3 then look at test number 153.

Alrightie… Have a glorious evening and please remember that if you need any additional assistance please contact us through the Ask Us! link on the library homepage or come visit us at the reference desk!

We love questions!

>^..^< Amanda

P.S. Also, don't forget you can do a search for (but no reviews) for what is where in the MMY on the Buros Testing website.

Prof. Endicott’s PTE 5623 Class–

Quick links:
Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY)
Tests in Print (TiP)
Citation Help

Here’s a review of your library instruction session today.

First things first…

The Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY)

The purpose of the Yearbook is to provide evaluative information to promote informed test selection. Typical test entries include descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references.

To be included, a test must be:

1.) commercially available

2.) be published in the English language

3. ) and be new, revised, or widely used since it last appeared in the series.

The MMY in print in the Reference Collection (Ref Z5814.P8 B932) goes back to the first volume and up to volume 17. The library’s MMY online database provides coverage from volume 9 to the present (vlme. 17).

Also, remember your “Advanced Search” tab in the electronic MMY:

This can allow you to do all sorts of funky things like search only certain yearbooks, test categories, publication years, etc.

Now, what about those Tests in Print?

What is Tests In Print?

Tests in Print (TIP) (Print located at Ref Z5814.E9 T47) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Information includes test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). Tests in Print also guides readers to candidly critical test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook series.

Now, remember, TiP does NOT contain test reviews, but it will give you quick information about tests such as publisher information, test time, scores, etc.

It will also give you something called a “cross reference” which will tell you where in the MMY you can find a review for the test you’re looking at.

For this cross reference, TiP is telling you to go to the 14th edition of MMY and then to test number 54 for the test review.

If you ever see a T before a number such as T3:153– This is a cross reference to another Tests in Print edition; thus, you would need to go to Tests in Print edition 3 then look at test number 153.

Citation Help

APA Style Guide – Consult our library guide for correct information on citing sources (http://library.ucok.edu/instruction/APA5th.pdf).

OWL (Online Writing Lab at Purdue) – Offers examples of citing sources using APA (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/)

APA Website Gives updated information not included in the latest APA print manual (http://apastyle.apa.org/)

Knight Cite (http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/) and Son of Citation Machine (http://citationmachine.net/)

Remember when using the automatic citation in EBSCOHost– Always check your results with the APA manual!!

Alrightie… Have a glorious evening and please remember that if you need any additional assistance please contact us through the Ask Us! (offer chat, text, and phone contact info) link on the library homepage or come visit us at the reference desk!

See you around the library!

Amanda

Dr. Green’s PTE 5013– The MMY

Well, like I promised, here’s a blog posting about your class this evening.

First things first…

The Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) The purpose of the Yearbook is to provide evaluative information to promote informed test selection. Typical test entries include descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references.

To be included, a test must be:

1.) commercially available

2.) be published in the English language

3. ) and be new, revised, or widely used since it last appeared in the series.

The MMY in print in the Reference Collection goes back to the first volume and up to volume 15. The library’s MMY online subscription provides coverage from volume 9 to the present (vlme. 17).

Also, remember your “Advanced Search” tab in the electronic MMY:

This can allow you to do all sorts of funky things like search only certain yearbooks, test categories, publication years, etc.

So, if you’re really want to impress your professor, I might suggest taking a look at her own reviewed tests

Now, what about those Tests in Print?

What is Tests In Print?

Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Information includes test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). Tests in Print also guides readers to candidly critical test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook series.

Now, remember, TiP does NOT contain test reviews, but it will give you quick information about tests such as publisher information, test time, scores, etc.

It will also give you something called a “cross reference” which will tell you where in the MMY you can find a review for the test you’re looking at.

For this cross reference, TiP is telling you to go to the 14th edition of MMY and then to test number 54 for the test review.

If you ever see a T before a number such as T3:153– This is a cross reference to another Tests in Print edition; thus, you would need to go to Tests in Print edition 3 then look at test number 153.

Alrightie… Have a glorious evening and please remember that if you need any additional assistance please contact us through the Ask Us! link on the library homepage or come visit us at the reference desk!

We love questions!

>^..^< Amanda

P.S.  Also, don't forget you can do a search for (but no reviews) for what is where in the MMY on the Buros Testing website.

Dr. Cummings’ PTE 3163 Course

Good morning,

Well, your professor, Dr. Cummings, asked me to show you all a bit about the library and it different offerings, so…

First, where do I find articles?  Books?  DVDs?

Great question!

On our library’s homepage (http://library.ucok.edu/), you will notice two links of the left-hand side

Find Articles (Databases) (http://library.ucok.edu/databases/index.html)

Find Books (UCO Catalog) (http://librarycatalog.ucok.edu/)

These two links will take you to the respective databases’ page and our library catalog.

Now, when you’re in the databases’ page, remember you can sort the databases according to subject by using the Database Sorter in the upper left-hand corner.  In class, we visited the subject Education and looked at the ERIC database.  But, if your topic touches more on maybe psychology or law, you can use the databases categorized under those subjects!

Also, remember that even though the links says “Find Books” that our UCO Catalog also searches for DVDs, CDs, VHS, e-books, etc.  The only thing is does not search for is articles!

In class our sample searches were:

In ERIC

bulimi* sorori*

(Remember the * is a wildcard that allows for different endings such as bulimia, bulimic, bulimics, etc.)

We also discussed using the OR operator such as

bulimi* or “eating disorder*” sorori*

The OR operator (which does not need to be capitalized) allows the databases to search for anything dealing with bulimia or sororities or eating disorders and sororities at the same time!

Also, the reason we put “” around eating disorder is because we wanted the database to only find results with those two words right next to each other… That’s called a phrase search and is extremely helpful when Google stalking your exes

One thing to point out about the UCO Catalog is that the “” and OR also works in the catalog.  However, when you want to do wildcard endings in the Catalog you use a ? instead of a *

Thus bulimi? in the UCO Catalog would search for bulimia, bulimics, bulimic, etc.

If you feel you need more practice or information about these advanced search operators, please refer to page two in our Library Basics’ handout at http://library.ucok.edu/instruction/basics.pdf

What makes a journal/journal article scholarly?

First, just a simple tip– scholarly/academic/peer-reviewed/referred all mean the same thing.

According to our library glossary:

Peer-reviewed means “articles reviewed and critiqued by noted experts (“peers”) in the same discipline; sometimes called ‘refereed’” library.ucok.edu/sp/glossary/index.html

Thus when you’re taking a look at an article from Times or Scientific America, you’re not looking at scholarly articles.  Instead, you’re looking at something called “popular literature” or news that is written for the general public about scholarly and or scientific studies, etc.

Identifying scholarly versus non scholarly literature:

If you ever have a question about whether an article is scholarly/peer-reviewed/referred, you can check the article’s journal via a database called Ulrich’s Periodical Directory (http://library.ucok.edu/databases/alphalist.cfm?keyword=U)

The periodical’s record will inform you whether you’re looking at a trade publication, a referred journal, or a consumer periodical.

Tracing back to the Original Scientifc Study

Sometimes, you might see an article on CNN.com, or a blurb in the New York Times about a topic you’re very interested in terms of your studies.  If so, you can always trace back to the original scientific study for your own research.

Take for example the article we looked at in class– Good Moods Prevent Colds

(http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/8056/title/Sniffle-Busting_Personalities_Positive_mood_guards_against_getting_colds)

While the article itself on Sciencenews.org might not be a source you can use for your paper.  The article does present many clues, allowing you to trace back to the original study.

Note that the journal name and one of the study’s authors’ names is mentioned.  Perfect!

If you know the journal name, all you would have to do is visit our library homepage (http://library.ucok.edu/) and click on the “Journal Titles” tab on the far right-hand side of the website.  Once clicked, you can enter the journal’s name to find our holdings (print and/or electronic), etc.

From there, you can find the original study.  A definite peer-reviewed source perfect for your research and paper!

Say you just want current event articles from popular literature?

Well, we can help you too!  Remember when you visited that databases‘ page (http://library.ucok.edu/databases/index.html))?  Well, the database sorter in the upper left hand corner actually has a “Current Events” subject!

Some of the Current Event databases I might recommend are:

Lexis Nexis: Full text newspapers from around the United States and the World

Topic Search: Some full text articles concerning current events, controversial issues, social, political & economic issues.

NewsBank: Full text articles from the Oklahoman, Tulsa World and other local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers.

Ok, well that’s about that.  Remember, if you have any questions, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text (http://library.ucok.edu/ask/index.cfm)!

See you around the library!

Amanda Lemon

P.S. You can print this blog off for you records!  All you have to do it make sure that you hit the highlighted, hyperlinked blog title and that this blog is the only one showing on the page.  From there, just go up to File and Print.  You may want to hit Print Preview to double check before printing!!

Dr. Jackson’s PTE 5013 Class #2– The MMY

So, you survived that first class and now it’s time for your second class!

The Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY)– The purpose of the yearbooks is to provide evaluative information to promote informed test selection. Typical test entries include descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references.

To be included, a test must be:

1.) commercially available
2.) be published in the English language
3. ) and be new, revised, or widely used since it last appeared in the series.

The MMY, in print, in the Reference Collection goes back to the first yearbook and up to yearbook #15.

The library’s MMY online subscription provides coverage from yearbook #9 to the present yearbook #17.

Remember that “Advanced Search” tab we discussed in class?

This can allow you to do all sorts of funky things like search only certain yearbooks, test categories, publication years, etc.

So, if you really want to impress a certain PTE faculty member, I might suggest taking a look at one of their reviewed tests and discussing its absolutely fabulous content ;)

Now, what about those Tests in Print?

What is Tests In Print? Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Information includes test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). Tests in Print also guides readers to candidly critical test reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook series.

Now, remember, TiP does NOT contain test reviews, but it will give you quick information about tests such as publisher information, test time, scores, etc. It will also give you something called a “cross reference” which will tell you where in the MMY you can find a review for the test you’re looking at.

For this cross reference, TiP is telling you to go to the 14th edition of MMY and then to test number 54 for the test review. If you ever see a T before a number such as T3:153– This is a cross reference to another Tests in Print edition; thus, you would need to go to Tests in Print edition 3 then look at test number 153.

Alrightie… Have a glorious evening and please remember that if you need any additional assistance please contact us through the Ask Us! link on the library homepage or come visit us at the reference desk!We love questions!

>^..^< Amanda

PTE 5013– Dr. Jackson’s Foundations of Educational Research

Session One– Literature Searching

Finding the appropiate databases for your topic

Once you have visited the library’s website and clicked on the Find Articles (Databases) link, please note the “databases by subject” sorter in the upper left corner.

For this class you might consider choosing the Advanced Professional Services or Education option which would lead you to the following databases:

ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) – Education related articles, documents, lesson plans, technical reports and reviews

Professional Development Collection - Full-text of 500 journals in education, 300 peer reviewed

PsychInfo - Full-text, citations, and abstracts to articles, books, and other materials related to pyschology

SocIndex - Full-text and citations to articles, books, and conference papers in sociology

**Please remember that when accessing these databases off campus that you will have to log in with your UConnect username and password.**

You might also consider clicking on the subjects psychology, sociology or health and medecine if your topics branch into those fields. 

Each of our databases indexes unique periodicals thus your results from database to database will vary.

Ensuring your source is Peer-Reviewed or a Scholarly source

Using Ulrich’s Periodical Directory  will ensure that your article is from a peer reviewed or refereed journal not a popular literature periodical or a trade publication.  Please remember that you will need to type the journal name (not article name) into the search box. 

Ulrich’s is a definite must when searching via ERIC as ERIC indexes all sorts of publications such as trade publications and does not allow for a peer-reviewed search option as some of the other databases allow.

 Backtracking…

What I mean by backtracking is taking a reference you see at the end of an article or mentioned on a website and going to the original source.

All you need to do is look for the journal name in which the article appeared and then go to our Journal Titles tab on our frontpage and enter your information there.  Here, it will show you whether we own access to that journal and in what format (print or digital).

If you ever come accross an article but do not have the journal’s name in which it was published, please either stop by the Reference desk or contact us electronically and we will try our hardest to track down where that article came from!

Please remember that if you ever need a hand in your research process, you can always contact us at the Reference desk via email, phone (405-974-2878), chat, or text!

And, you can always email me personally @ alemon2@ucok.edu!

I’ll see you around the library!

Amanda

PTE5013 Foundations of Educational Research – Green

Session One – Education Resources

Databases

*Note – Direct links can be used on campus. If you are off campus select Find Articles (Databases) > Choose a Subject > Family & Child Development >

ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) – Education related articles, documents, lesson plans, technical reports and reviews

Professional Development Collection - Full-text of 500 journals in education, 300 peer reviewed

PsychInfo - Full-text, citations, and abstracts to articles, books, and other materials related to pyschology

SocIndex - Full-text and citations to articles, books, and conference papers in sociology

Additional Databases for Speech/Language

Communication & Mass Media - communication, journalism and mass media

Medline - largest medical database with worldwide coverage – *Remember this database uses different subject headings (MESH) *Note – Direct links can be used on campus. If you are off campus select Find Articles (Databases) > Choose a Subject > Health and Medicine > Medline

Peer Reviewed or Refereed Journals

Ulrich’s Periodical Directory  Use this database to ensure that your article is in a peer reviewed or refereed journal.  It is very important to type the name of the journal into Ulrich’s and not the article name. Some databases give you the option to search only for peer reviewed articles.  For this class you should still check the journal publication type in Ulrich’s.

Finding Original Research

If you find an article that references another study or research, you can trace back to the original research by looking at the reference page of the article you are reading.  Find the name of the publication then type that publication name into Journal Titles on the library home page to see if we own that publication.   If we do, you can look up by the date, volume, issue etc.  If we do not own that publication you can order through interlibrary loan.

Helpful Resources for Citing Sources

APA Style Guide - handout given during class

OWL (Online Writing Lab at Purdue) - Offers examples of citing sources and other helpful information for writing academic papers.

APA Website Gives updated information on citing electronic references not included in the APA Manual.

Knight Cite and Son of Citation Machine are just two examples of web sources you can use to help format your reference or bibliography page.  These should be used only as a guide as they may not be 100% accurate.  Always check results with the APA manual.

The Reference Desk has a copy of the APA manual that you may use in the library.  The circulation desk also has a limited number of copies that can be check out for limited periods of time. 

Using RSS (that Google Reader thing…) Link to that video we saw in class: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU Free RSS readers:

• Google Reader- google.com/reader
• BlogLines- http://www.bloglines.com/
• NetVibes- http://www.netvibes.com/

Quick tutorial video about how to set up an RSS search alert in EBSCO and plug it into a reader: http://www.screencast.com/users/Jana/folders/Jing/media/1b40076e-a0db-4591-b3c1-0eab2bcc5a0d

 

If you need additional assistance please contact us through the Ask Us! link on the library homepage or come visit us at the reference desk.  For more practice on the topics covered in this class try out our self-paced Searchpath Tutorial.

 

 

PTE5013 Foundations of Educational Research

Hello Students,

Below is the powerpoint presentation used in class. I have also added links to assist you with APA Style formatting.

Tonya L Holt
Reference & Instruction Librarian

Note: For those of you conducting research on a health related topic you may want to try some of the following databases in Health and Medicine:
Health Source: Nursing Edition
CINAHL (Cummulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature)
Medline

Learn more about using UCO Library Resources

UCO Chambers Library Tutorial This free online tutorial covers information sources, searching strategies, how to find books, how to find articles and citations and plagariasm. If you are interested in learning more, you can use this tutorial at your own pace.

APA Style

APA Handout This is copy of the handout given in class.

The OWL at Purdue (Online Writing Lab) This website offers more examples of writing and citing in APA style.

KnightCite This website will help you format your reference page. Be sure to select APA style on the left side. May not be 100% accurate. Always check your APA manual.

Son of Citation Machine This is another website to help you format your reference page. Again, be sure to select APA style on the left side. May not be 100% accurate. Always check your APA manual.

If you need further assistance please visit us at the Reference Desk or contact us through our Ask Us! link on the library homepage.