Annotated Bibliography

Pablo A. Valdés
Language IX
Crystal Hickerson
Friday 24th, April, 2009


Burns, D. J. “Will I do as well on the final exam as I expect? An examination of students’ expectations.” Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 8, No. 3, October 2008: pp. 1 – 19. In this article the author, researcher at Xavier University, tries to test his hypothesis on how students’ expectations influence their performance on a final exam. According to him, levels of anxiety, past performances, absences, self handicapping and the preparation before a test influence the way students take an actual final exam. This is given by the detailed information this article shows on students’ expectations and by the methodology carried out in order to obtain the desired results. Nevertheless, his hypothesis is not widely supported because the results were mixed. The data obtained from this research does not necessarily prove that students’ expectations influence future test performances. Notwithstanding of this, the information contained in this article is useful for teachers who desire to make an improvement on students’ results as part of their own reflective process of teaching. At the same time, it invites to analyze and reflect on the nature of students’ failing at the moment of taking final tests.

Good Online Sources for Research in Education

1.- Academic Journals.-

This journal is provided by lots of material regarding to Education and others areas of study. At the same time, you can get information for free and it has full text papers.

http://www.academicjournals.org/journals.htm



2.- Education Policy Analysis Archives.-

In this journal you can find information about analytic archives in relation to educational policies. You can also have access to Spanish and Portuguese articles.

http://epaa.asu.edu/


3.- International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (IJTLHE)

This journal provides free information for researchers, teacher, administrators, and so on who are interested in post secondary instruction.

http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/


4.- Networks: An On-Line Journal for Teacher Research

As its name says it is a journal for teachers from kindergarten to higher education, in order to research in current events on education. Articles in html format.

http://journals.library.wisc.edu/index.php/networks/index


5.- Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation (PARE)

It is an on-line journal which purpose is to provide access to refereed articles that can have a positive impact on assessment, research, evaluation, and teaching practice.

http://pareonline.net/




Database

1.- Education Journals: an annotated database
This database is oriented to teacher and educators who research in different areas of study. At the same time it provides full text journals and papers which are useful for any research.

http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/8478

2.- Edresearch online.-

Database full of PDF articles and journals. There are some you have to pay for, but there are other for free.

http://cunningham.acer.edu.au/dbtw-wpd/sample/journals_edresearch.htm


3.- The WilsonWeb journals database

This database group information on needs of education students, professionals, and policy maker. It has a journal directory where you can find the information you want.

http://www.hwwilson.com/databases/educat.htm#Abstracts