Transcript: Helpful Resources from OASIS for Spring 2025
Speaker: Ed Watson
Hi, my name is Ed Watson and I'm an instructional support specialist in the Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services, also known as OASIS. In OASIS, we provide services and resources to help you succeed during your academic journey.
Let's hear from our students about their favorite OASIS services and resources.
Speaker: Taylor
Hi, my name is Taylor and I am currently working toward a PhD in Forensic Psychology. My favorite OASIS service is the OASIS Live Just Right sessions. These sessions provide a space to write independently among peers while seeing accountable to your goals.
For capstone specific Just Right sessions, you can even get expert guidance about doctoral capstone writing questions. I recommend this service to anyone who wants to feel connected to the Walden community.
Speaker: Amber
Hello, my name is Amber and I'm pursuing my doctorate in forensic psychology. My favorite resource is Ask OASIS. Ask OASIS helped me find a tailored resource to support my academic needs. As a student, I frequently seek help improving my writing, conducting in depth library research, and enhancing my critical thinking skills. It's really reassuring to have a comprehensive resource that helped me stay on track towards my goals.
Speaker: Nabila
Hello, my name is Nabila and I'm pursuing doctoral degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology here at Walden University. My favorite OASIS service is the Paper Review Service because I can get my writing reviewed by a team of highly educated writing experts. From personal experience, I have used the Paper Review Service for help with my prospectus form. The team’s insight and help were phenomenal and their positive feedback motivated me to keep moving forward.
Speaker: Ed
No matter where you are in your program, OASIS is here to support your academic writing.
To learn more about these and many other OASIS services and resources, visit our website.
We look forward to helping you develop your scholarly writing, APA, library research, success strategy, methodology, and or capstone specific skills this spring term.
Welcome to the Spring 2025 term!
OASIS provides you with the support you need to succeed. To learn more about some of the services and resources we offer, we invite you to watch this short video.
Education Source covers all levels of education--from early childhood to higher education as well as all educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. It is the world's largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals with many peer-reviewed titles.
ERIC, maintained by the US Department of Education, indexes over a million journal and non-journal sources focused on education research, including including work produced or funded by the U.S. Department of Education, other federal departments, state or local agencies, policy organizations professional associations, and more.
Coverage is particularly strong for the life and physical sciences, medicine, and technical fields, but also includes some social sciences and humanities.
A multidisciplinary database containing peer-reviewed journals, conference papers, newspapers, magazines and other materials. This database is a good starting place for topics that cross many subject areas.
Education Source covers all levels of education--from early childhood to higher education as well as all educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. It is the world's largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals with many peer-reviewed titles.
ERIC, maintained by the US Department of Education, indexes over a million journal and non-journal sources focused on education research, including including work produced or funded by the U.S. Department of Education, other federal departments, state or local agencies, policy organizations professional associations, and more.
Search ERIC, a database of 1.3 million bibliographic records maintained by the US Department of Education, and Education Source, one of the largest collections of full-text education journals, at the same time.
Teacher Reference Center provides many subjects for teachers needs, including assessment, best practices, continuing education, current pedagogical research, curriculum development, elementary education, higher education, instructional media, language arts, literacy standards, school administration, science and mathematics, and teacher education.
A multidisciplinary database containing peer-reviewed journals, conference papers, newspapers, magazines and other materials. This database is a good starting place for topics that cross many subject areas.
Offers data on indicators affecting children and families in the United States, including education, family and community, and well-being. Downloadable into graphs and reports.
A multidisciplinary database containing peer-reviewed journals, conference papers, newspapers, magazines and other materials. This database is a good starting place for topics that cross many subject areas.
ProQuest Central includes a very large selection of scholarly and peer-reviewed publications appropriate for all Walden programs of study, as well as unique materials like newspapers, dissertations, and business information.
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects.
This is a tool that searches across many of the Library databases. It is not able to search every database, but it does search enough of our resources to be a useful tool for quick, simple searches.
Books are great for background information on topics, trends, and people. Many of the most popular and influential theorists and theories will only be available in books.
The Walden Library has a wide collection of books in the field of education.
If you're unsure where to start your research, try the Education Source database to begin your search. We know you love ERIC but Education Source has a broader collection with a higher percentage of peer-reviewed literature.
Helpful information on how to search the Library databases can be found under Get Help on the Library Skills Guides page.
We also have answers to many frequently asked questions (FAQs) available on our Quick Answers page.
Below is a video of a sample search to help you get started.
When working on your literature review, you will read and look at hundreds of articles, books, and other materials. However, you will not include all of them in your final literature review. This does not mean you've wasted your time looking at unnecessary articles! Rather, this review of the literature is what helps you become an expert in your field.
Part of your research will include identifying and obtaining original theoretical works, and integrating them into your research to tie your ideas together and keep them grounded in historical context. We understand that it may be challenging to find theories and theorists and track down their original works. The Library can help!
When you begin your search, you will need to determine if you need prepared statistics or raw datasets. The term statistics refers to data that has already been analyzed.
Locating Datasets
If you want to do your own analysis, then you need a dataset. You can find secondary datasets (data that has been collected by someone else) in sources like the ICPSR database (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Science Research Datasets) or the U.S. Census.
Statistics & Data by Topic: Some data and statistics are available freely online from government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions.
You can search the Library's research databases for peer-reviewed articles that use statistics to support a position or argument. You may have to try several different searches to find relevant articles. Peer-reviewed articles can be very valuable if you are struggling to locate statistics or data from a government site or database. The Statistics in Articles page includes instructions that show you how to search for articles in the Library's research databases.
Finding a test or measurement instrument for your doctoral study is often one of the most challenging parts of your research. The multidisciplinary aspect of Education research can further complicate the task of finding an instrument. In fact, many education dissertations use psychological measurement instruments.
Most measurement instruments can be used for a variety of research topics. The instrument(s) you choose will depend on the specific things you want to measure as part of your own research.
Start by looking at the Identify Tests page of the Tests & Measures Guide. It provides basic information about available test databases and provides videos of sample searches.
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