IMPACT FACTORS
The U.Va. Health Sciences Library staff have created a fabulous webpage to provide the following information for journals of interest to their consituents. The CLIC librarians note that many of these journals are also of interest to Curry faculty and students. Please contact Elaine Attridge at the Health Sciences Library 434- 924-2507 or elaine @virginia.edu if you have any questions.

 The website provides:

1. Impact factors from Web of Science
2. Access to Tables of Content for the journals
3. Full text access to journal articles

See also the article at the top of the right column about impact factors. You may also want to use the database, Journal Citation Reports which provides impact factors for journals indexed by the Web of Science.

TEE SHIRT WINNER
Last week we asked you to submit a suggestion to improve the CLIC. A Curry doctoral student suggested we improve the content of the CLIC web site. Here is our first response. Thanks for helping us!

Your on the Grounds and in-the-Cloud librarians,

---Kay and Carole

NEWBERY AWARD
The 2011 Newbery Medal winner is Moon over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool.

The town of Manifest is based on Frontenac, Kansas, the home of debut author Clare Vanderpool’s maternal grandparents. Vanderpool was inspired to write about what the idea of “home” might look like to a girl who had grown up riding the rails. She lives in Wichita with her husband and four children.

“Vanderpool illustrates the importance of stories as a way for children to understand the past, inform the present and provide hope for the future,” said Newbery Medal Committee Chair Cynthia K. Richey. Click here for a list of previous Newbery Award winners.

CALDECOTT AWARD The Caldecott was presented to the book, A Sick Day for Amos McGee. According to the American Library Association, "In this tender tale of reciprocity and friendship, zookeeper Amos McGee gets the sniffles and receives a surprise visit from his caring animal friends. Erin Stead’s delicate woodblock prints and fine pencil work complement Philip Stead’s understated, spare and humorous text to create a well-paced, gentle and satisfying book, perfect for sharing with friends. Click here for a list of previous Caldecott award winners.

BOYS CAN BE BOYS AND LEARN

Ali Carr-Chellman pinpoints three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys be boys, and video games that teach as well as entertain. Watch this TED Conference presentation.

Ali Carr-Chellman is an instructional designer and author who studies the most effective ways to teach kids and to make changes at school. She is in the School of Education at Penn State University.

ARTICLE INFLUENCE
The Eigenfactor Project™ website states, " Scholarly references join journals together in a vast network of citations. Our algorithms use the structure of the entire network (instead of purely local citation information) to evaluate the importance of each journal." EigenfactorTM scores and Article InfluenceTM scores are free and searchable.

Click here to search for the scores by journal title or category (education, psychology, higher education, orthopedics, etc.).

See also the article at the top of the left column about impact factors. You may also want to use the database, Journal Citation Reports which provides impact factors for journals indexed by the Web of Science.

The National Center for Education Statistics will be conducting a free one -day training seminar on its early childhood studies at the 2011 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development on March 30 in Montreal which will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30. For more information or to register, please send an e-mail to ecls@air.org. This free seminar provides information on three NCES large-scale data collections :

• The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K),

• The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort of 2001 (ECLS-B), and

• The National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES).

The seminar will present overviews of the study designs and technical issues associated with using and analyzing the data, highlights about the data collected from 1991 through 2007 pertaining to children from birth through 8th grade, information on how the surveys complement each other, and computer demonstrations of software that assists users in preparing data for analyses.

The seminar is for graduate students, faculty, and researchers who have a solid understanding of statistics and limited familiarity with the ECLS and NHES data.

NATION'S REPORT CARD
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has just released The Nation’s Report Card: Science 2009. The 2009 science report presents results for students in grades 4, 8, and 12. National results for each of the three grades are based on representative samples of public and private school students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Department of Defense schools. State results are reported separately for fourth- and eighth-grade public school students from 46 states and the Department of Defense schools.

A live webinar, featuring a Q&A session with the panelists, will stream the announcement of the results beginning at 11 a.m. ET. To view the event and submit a question, visit http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard

To view the full report please click here.

Find out about training opportunities (great resume builders), upcoming IES events and conferences, grant opportunities, IES center news, etc.

NEWSLETTER
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