The CLIC Librarians' Newsletter
September 6, 2012 Volume 6, No. 6
This newsletter is produced by the CLIC librarians, Kay Buchanan and Carole Lohman for the Curry School of Education to support digital scholarship and research.
Archived Issues

TOPIC: Databases and Your Literature Review
TIME: 9:30am-10:30am OR 3:30pm-4:30pm
You need only attend one session.
No registration required.
DATE: Friday, September 14
LOCATION: In the CLIC, Bavaro Hall, room 306
DESCRIPTION: When you write a literature review, you will need to locate journal articles and other scholarly materials on your research topic so that you can read and cite them in the lit review. This session will help you find and select the best library databases that will make your research more effective and efficient. We will review how to set up an effective search strategy to get the best articles. We will also learn to locate journal articles and book chapters by subject/keywords and author, as well as how to limit your search results to peer reviewed articles, to articles using a specific methodology, or to articles from a specific journal. Join us! You are welcome to bring your laptop. You should make sure you have a wireless account set up in advance of the workshop so that your laptop will function properly.

 WORKSHOPS
TOPIC: RefWorks Write-N-Cite 4.0
TIME: 10am-11am
You need only attend one session.
No registration required.
DATE: September 10, 11, 12, 13
DAY: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday
LOCATION: In the CLIC, Bavaro Hall, room 306
DESCRIPTION: Learn to use the newest version of RefWork's Write-N-Cite software which works in conjunction with WORD software. Write-N-Cite will automatically insert you reference list and In-Text (Parenthetical) Documentation in APA, AMA, or other style guide format into your research paper.

 LEARN ALGEBRA APP
There are a growing number of apps for smart phones and tablets aimed at children and teens that relate to books, authors, illustrators, and school curriculum. Each month the Children's Comprehensive Literature Database creators highlight one app they believe stands out among the crowd. This month's selection is DragonBox by WeWantToKnow. Available for the iPad and iPhone as well as for Android tablets and phones, this app costs $2.99. This new game teaches kids, ages 5 and up, algebra with a series of puzzles. More popular than Angry Birds in Norway, where it was developed, this innovative game makes learning algebra easy and fun.

NEW HANDBOOKS
There are two new handbooks now available for your research needs and both are housed in the CLIC's collection of over handbooks. located in room 306, Bavaro Hall. Here is a list of all Handbooks in the CLIC with links to their Tables of Content .

 NEW HANDBOOK
Title: Handbook for Synthesizing Qualitative Research
Call number: R 853 .Q34 S26 2007
Table of Contents

   NEW HANDBOOK
Title: Handbook of the Economics of Education, v.4
Call Number: LC 66 .H35 2006 v. 4
Table of Contents

  AND THE ANSWER IS...
Ever wonder what questions the CLIC librarians are asked to field? Here is a sample from this week.

• Question 1. Where do you find data sets?

• Answer 1. There are a variety of resources. I'll start you off with this one, A Guide to Social and Behavioral Data. which was developed by staff in the Scholar's Lab.

• Question 2. I know I read the "Handbook of College Reading and Study Strategy Research" online. I'm not sure where I found it online. Can you help me relocate it?

• Answer 2. The first place that I would suggest looking is Google Books. Go to Google Books and enter the title of your book. Note: there may be several listings for the book. Why? There might be a listing for the hardback copy, another for the paperback, etc. So, click on all that are possibilities. Once you click, look on the top left of the screen and you will indicate availability.

• The second place to look would be the UVa Library's online catalog, VIRGO. Enter you title and you may see multiple listings because VIRGO lists paperback copies separate from hardback copies and online copies. this is the same convention Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other web sites use. The good news is we found an online copy in VIRGO. Thanks for asking!

HOOS YOUR   
Throughout the semester, we will be highlighting information about finding, organizing, analyzing, managing, displaying, and preserving your research data. See this week's featured data information below.

 USE SOFTWARE, MAKE A MAP
TOPIC: Making Your First Map Using GIS Software
TIME: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
DATE: Wednesday, September 12
LOCATION: Campbell Hall, Room 105
DESCRIPTION: Getting started with new software can be intimidating. This workshop introduces the skills you need to work with spatial goodness. Along the way you’ll get a taste of Earth’s most popular geographic software and a gentle introduction to map making. You’ll leave with your own cartographic Session repeats. See below.

TOPIC: Making Your First Map Using GIS Software
TIME: 3:00pm – 4:00pm
DATE: Thursday, September 13
LOCATION: Alderman Library, Room 421
DESCRIPTION: Getting started with new software can be intimidating. This workshop introduces the skills you need to work with spatial goodness. Along the way you’ll get a taste of Earth’s most popular geographic software and a gentle introduction to map making. You’ll leave with your own cartographic masterpiece and tips for learning more in your pursuit of all things mappiness at UVa.

 WEBSITE UPDATE
New state-level data on high school completion credentials, exit and end-of-course exams, as well as requirements for kindergarten attendance and initial certification of teachers are now available on the NCES State Education Reforms website. The State Education Reforms website, which draws primarily on data collected by organizations other than NCES, compiles and disseminates data on state-level education reform efforts in five areas:

(1) Accountability
(2) Assessment and standards
(3) Staff qualifications and development
(4) State support for school choice and other options
(5) Student readiness and progress through school

Do you sometimes wonder if there are other faculty at UVA working with the same quantitative methods you employ, or asking similar questions, or working with related data? The U.Va/ Quantitative Collaborative is working to bridge disciplinary boundaries and bring people like this together. Please join them for a "break-out" event where that will provide opportunities to meet and discuss common challenges and issues involved with using quantitative methods in the social sciences, public health, business, education, and related fields—and talk about how to build sustained, long-term collaboration across disciplines.

The QC is hosting at event titled "The Quantitative Collaborative: Beginning the University-wide Conversation" will feature advice and inspiration from the founder of Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Gary King.

KEYNOTE: Gary King
DATE/TIME: 11 am on Friday, September 14
LOCATION: Newcomb Hall Kaleidoscope Room

Please RSVP to QC-conversation@virginia.edu if you can join us for the keynote and stay for informal conversations over lunch.

After lunch, attendees will break up into small groups focused on: 1) Data/Quantitative Analysis; 2) Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Social Science; and 3) Data-Gathering.

 VIDEOS: INTRODUCING NAEP
The National Center for Education Statistics (NAEP) designed two videos, Introducing NAEP to Teachers and Introducing NAEP to Students, that explain NAEP assessments. These short videos feature real educators sharing their thoughts on the National Assessment of Educational Progress and how teachers and students can prepare to participate and excel in the program.

BACKGROUND: The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. Assessments are conducted periodically in mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics, economics, geography, and U.S. history.

Since NAEP assessments are administered uniformly using the same sets of test booklets across the nation, NAEP results serve as a common metric for all states and selected urban districts. The assessment stays essentially the same from year to year, with only carefully documented changes. This permits NAEP to provide a clear picture of student academic progress over time.

 DOWNLOAD
The 2012 book, Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies is a collection of chapters and case studies contributed by college and university presidents, provosts, faculty, and other stakeholders. Institutions are finding new ways of achieving higher education’s mission without being crippled by constraints or overpowered by greater expectations.

Find out who is changing the game and what we can learn from their different approach. You can download the entire book or individual chapters and case studies.