Annotated Bibliography

Improving Test scores. What teachers can do?

Burns, David J. “Will do as well on the final exam as I expect? An examination of students`expectations.” Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 8. 3 (2008): 1-19. The relation between students` expectations and final results is the leitmotiv of this analysis in which David J. Burns tries to support that there are internal and external factors that would impede success at the end of the road. The researcher assumes that students are more affected by mental factors and their abilities are connected to their actions which have nothing to do with final scores. Higher or lower results are more than a demonstration of the amount of knowledge that students manage. However, there are not clear evidences about the positive effects of high expectations in students’ minds. In fact, those constructions are part of the environment which promotes diffuse theories without any support and less evidence that affects the learning process and the possibility of teaching in a clean and proactive scenario.

Sources for Research in Education

Databases

1-EBSCO HOST


It is a well ordered and complete database that gives to the researcher a simple and guided orientation to have access in educational topics. It has full texts and a wide variety of topics.



http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/search?vid=1&hid=116&sid=414748fd-4eda-4025-8e66-28aba7187c5c%40sessionmgr103






2-International bureau of education




This database is connected with UNESCO, which is the most important organization that promotes equality and equity in the whole world. It has many links to journals in education which are totally free and useful for researchers.






http://www.ibe.unesco.org/en/services/links/databases-on-education-systems.html







3-Trinity College.



It is a complete database that contatins many journals related to education in Australia and Canada. Both are countries that have a different and valid point of view in education.



http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/subjects/english/media/edjournals.htm





Journals



1-Journal of Education for International Development (JEID)
A Professional Online Journal for Practitioners

This is a different journal that contains information about supportive education for fragile contexts. It contains different articles about how to teach in problematic areas and how to assume and overcome that situations in a positive way. Besides this journal has a wide variety of material to face this environments in a posstive way.

http://www.equip123.net/JEID/current.htm

2-Educational Sciences Journal Educational Sciences R&D Unit of the University of Lisbon

This is a portuguese journal that contains information that helps the researcher to find many topics and ideas about education and its fields.It is a clear and well structered journal that promotes different topics and alternatives to help teachers in the classroom.

http://sisifo.fpce.ul.pt/search.php

3-Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.

This is an australian journal that has many topics and short news about education. It is more precise in terms of searching. Besides it is clean of advertisement and distractors in its pages. Moreover, it contains a variety of publications ordered by date.

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/news/edtimes/onlineeditions.htm

4-Journal of Techonology Education. Virginia Tech.

In this journal teh researcher can a find adifferent perspective about eduaction. It contains information about technology in eduacation which is very useful to acquire this area in the classroom. Technology has a important rol in our society and education has to assume its part to be updated in this challenging society.

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/

5-Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology

This source has many information related to education, but also it is very useful because of its articles which are available in PDF format. It has academic and practitioners research which is very useful because promotes a dual poitn of view for researchers.

http://investigacion-psicopedagogica.org/revista/new/english/index.php