LINKS

NEW ZEALAND LINKS

ChildForum Early Childhood Education Research Network
http://www.childforum.com
The NZ Early Childhood Research Network brings together researchers to discuss early childhood research online, make their research known, meet at annual symposia, and have their work published. Research Network members can also be kept in touch with early education policy and practical matters in the early childhood field through free access to two other networks within ChildForum: a childcare teaching network and an early childhood service management network.

New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER)
http://www.nzcer.org.nz/
An independent educational research organisation with a bicultural focus. Edlink is a collection of annotated links to education information and resources on the Internet.

The New Zealand Educatioal Theses Database
http://www.nzcer.org.nz/edtheses
New Zealand Educational Theses is a database of all theses in education topics about
New Zealand and by New Zealanders. It has been developed by NZCER library, as part of the Ministry of Education’s Iterative Best Evidence Synthesis (BES) programme.

New Zealand Educational Theses (NZET) Database survey
http://www.nzcer.org.nz/edtheses
The New Zealand Educational Theses (NZET) Database is an important resource, developed by NZCER’s information services and hosted on our website. We’re conducting a survey in order to improve it. We are interested in hearing both from people who have used the database and also those who haven’t, as that can also give us useful information.

What do we want to know? It’s a quick online survey which asks what people are using the database for and how it has helped their research. We’re interested in what subjects they’ve searched on and if there are subjects they couldn’t find in the database. We would also like to know what improvements we could make. We’re keen to get responses from as many people as possible, so please check out the database and tell us what you think. There are vouchers to be won.

» http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NZETusersurvey

NZCER publications database
http://www.nzcer.org.nz/library-search.php
The NZCER publications database indexes and abstracts of all articles from NZJES and NZARE conference papers, as well as indexing NZCER publications. It is maintained by the NZCER Library.

Shifting Thinking community
http://www.shiftingthinking.org
The website for the "Shifting Thinking" conference 3-4 November 2009 in Wellington. They say:
"The conference is over, but the thinking has only just begun!" This website provides ideas, tools, and resources for helping people make the shift from 20th century to 21st century ways of thinking about learning. It is a space for theory and practice to interact, for theory to inform practice, and practice to inform theory.

» Ako Aotearoa - National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence
http://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/
Ako Aotearoa focuses on enhancing the effectiveness of tertiary teaching and learning practices, and works across the breadth of the tertiary sector, involving universities, institutes of technology and polytechnics, wānanga, private tertiary education providers, adult and community education and workplaces.

» New Zealand Educational Leadership and Administration Society (NZEALS)
http://www.nzeals.org.nz/
A leading resource for information, support and networking in educational administration and leadership.

» Social Policy Evaluation and Research Committee (SPEaR)
http://www.spear.govt.nz/
A portal for social policy research and evaluation and information on latest news, upcoming events, funding opportunities and jobs within the sector.

» Ministry of Education
http://www.minedu.govt.nz
The New Zealand Ministry of Education's website.

» Te Kete Ipurangi (TKI)
http://www.tki.org.nz
The Ministry of Education's bilingual portal for quality assured educational material for New Zealand teachers, school managers, and the wider education community.

'SISTER' ORGANISATIONS

» Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA)
http://www.aperahk.org/
APERA's mission is to support and encourage educational research in the Asia-Pacific region, and;
to build stronger links between research, policy and practice in education. Its founding membership consists of twenty-two organisations from fourteen countries in the region. Publications include Educational Research for Policy and Practice (ERPP), Asia-Pacific Handbook on Educational Research and the "Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects" book series.

» Pacific Circle Consortium (PPC)
The Pacific Circle Consortium is an international educational organisation dedicated to improving teaching and research about peoples, nations, and issues of the Pacific-Asian region. The organisation's journal is the Pacific-Asian Education (formerly Pacific Education).

» AARE
http://www.aare.edu.au
AARE is the national association for fostering educational research in Australia. AARE facilitates contact between educational researchers and supports the development of high quality educational research.

» American Educational Research Association (AERA)
http://www.aera.net
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is a national research society, which stated mission is to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the use of research to improve education and serve the public good. AERA publishes a number of journals. Please go to http://www.aera.net/publications/?id=308 and select from navigation bar. Each journal has some free content available.

» British Educational Research Association ( BERA)
http://www.bera.ac.uk
BERA's aim is to sustain and promote an independent research culture committed to open inquiry and the improvement of education. It engages with policy makers, institutional managers and funding agencies, with other national educational research associations, international associations and the European Educational Research Association. It also co-operates with other researchers in the social sciences and related areas of work and and with teachers and lecturers and their associations. The British Educational Research Journal is published byTaylor and Francis on behalf of BERA and email alerts about new content are available.

» The European Educational Research Association (EERA)
http://www.eera.ac.uk/
The association of national educational research associations throughout Europe, fostering the exchange of ideas amongst European researchers. EERA publishes the quarterly scientific European Educational Research. The journal publishes aspects of educational research which illuminate the cases and contexts of the emerging borderless space of European educational research.

»Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE)
http://www.csse.ca
CSSE is a bilingual umbrella organisation for Canadian national educational research organisations. Its stated mission is to advance knowledge and inform practice in educational settings through involving researchers reflective of the sociocultural diversity of Canada. Its publication, The Canadian Journal of Education (CJE), is available on the organisation's website, http://www.csse.ca/CJE/.

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNALS

New Zealand Research in Early Childhood Education Journal (NZRECE)
http://www.childforum.com/research/research-journal-articles-reviewed-ece.html
An annual peer-reviewed journal for early childcare and education research, theory and methodology available online and in printed book form.

MAI Review Journal
http://www.review.mai.ac.nz
The journal aims to publish quality material that contributes to the body of knowledge about Māori and Indigenous development and assists in advancing the capabilities of Māori and Indigenous people who are engaged in research and scholarly training.

Contents Pages of Popular NZ Education Journals
http://www.teacherswork.ac.nz/nzjournalcontents.php
Teachers Work Journal provides searchable contents of New Zealand educational journals that have a social and policy focus in particular.

» New Zealand Annual Review of Education
http://www.nzcer.org.nz/default.php?cPath=139_134_181
Published by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER)

» New Zealand Journal of Teachers Work
http://www.teacherswork.ac.nz/twjournal.php
An online, refereed journal from Massey University

» Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: An International Journal
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/hdimauth.asp
A quarterly peer-reviewed journal focused on critical discourse and research in diaspora, indigenous, and minority education .

» Download publisher's flyer (PDF, 360KB)

» Educational Research for Policy and Practice (ERPP)
http://www.springer.com
The official journal of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA). Targeted at education professionals with an interest in the ways in which educational research can inform, and be informed by, educational decision making and practice in the Asia-Pacific region.

» European Educational Research Journal (EERJ)
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/eerj/
Devoted to Europeanisation in educational research. It publishes aspects of educational research, which illuminate the cases and contents of the emerging borderless space of European educational research. Cross-reference enabled.

Curriculum Matters
http://www.nzcer.org.nz/curriculum-matters
Refereed journal Published by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER)

Assessment Matters
http://www.nzcer.org.nz/assessment-matters
Refereed journal published by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER)

LINKS AND RESOURCES FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHERS AND STUDENTS

» Education Counts
http://educationcounts.edcentre.govt.nz/
A Ministry of Education website with Information to do with educational statistics and research in New Zealand.

» Proposal Writing and Research Resources
http://graduate.indiana.edu/gradGrants_writing.php and http://www.indiana.edu/~gradgrnt/pubs/pubs.html
A collection of resources from the Indiana University Graduate School

» Resources for Authors from AERA

• Guidelines and Tips (PDF, 812 KB) to learn more about publishing educational research in peer-reviewed journals.
• Janette K. Klingner, David Scanlon, and Michael Pressley, Educational Reseacher, Vol. 34, No. 8.

» Intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 116008 records. (Closing July 2011.)

» Web Center for Social Research Methods
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/

» SAGE Research Methods Online
http://www.sagepub.com/srmo/

Virtual Environment for Education
» http://groups.tlrp.org/
» http://groups.tlrp.org/access/content/public/new_network.html

WRITING GRANTS, PROPOSALS AND BUDGETS

UNITED STATES

» Research Proposal Writing
http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/tse-portal/proposal/dan-ryan-proposal/propweb.htm
This page gives information on research-proposal writing that will help the novice and the experienced proposal writer. It can be used as a guide and a reference source. It uses some original material, but it is mostly an organized directory of resources.

» Budget writing
http://www.indiana.edu/~gradgrnt/pubs/budget.html
Budget lines for grant proposals from the Indiana University Graduate School. See also links under Links and resources for educational research students above.