PROFESSIONAL LITRATURE

2. Each field has its own
professional litrature
Professional litrature
helps you keep up with
the latest ideas and
best practice

3.  Information about new ideas and
developments often appear in
periodicals long before it appear in
books.
 This periodicals give much more up-to-
date information to current questions
in educations than books.
 It has been estimated that there are
about 2100 journals that are
specifically related to education

4.  In all such journals one may also find articles
of interest devoted to Psychology,
Philosophy, Sociology and other subjects
 In India , many periodicals are published by
some association or istitutions.
 They provide a medium for dissemination of
educational research and exchange of
experience among research workers,
teachers and others interested in
educational research.

5.  Many professional periodicals and year
books, in India and abroad, include
some reviews of research and technical
discussions of educationals problems in
one or all the issues of their series.
 A list of some publications are;
 Journal of Educational research
 NEA Research Bulletin

6. Educational and Psychological
Measurement
Journal of experimental education
Journal of research in music education
Journal of educational psychology
Sociology and social research
Journal of Teacher education
Indian journal of applied psychology
Indian journal of education

7.  Theses and dissertations are usually
preserved by universities that awarded the
authors doctoral and master degrees.
 Sometimes these studies are published in
whole or in part in various educational
periodicals or journals.
 Because the reports of many research
studies are never published, a check of the
annual list of theses and dissertations issued
by various

8.  Agencies is necessary for a through
coverage of the research litrature.

9.  Many articles of particular interest to a
professional may be located through
newspaper
 Current newspapers provide up-to-date
information on seminars, conferences, new
trends and a number of other topics.
 Old newspapers which preserves a record
of past events, movements and ideas, are
particularly useful in historical enquries.

10.  Government documents are a rich
source of information
 They include data, research studies,
official reports, law and other material
that are not always available elsewhere.
 These are available in national, state,
regional as well as local level
government offices

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