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Welcome to the Higher Education Research Guide

This guide provides supplementary support to The Higher Education program at Texas Tech University, which offers three-degree programs (M.Ed., Ed.D., and Ph.D.) and a certificate https://www.depts.ttu.edu/education/graduate/psychology-and-leadership/higher_education/

"The Future of Higher Education: Visual" by World Economic Forum is marked with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Education Standards and Reports

Higher Education Resources

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Designed for academic institutions, this database provides complete coverage of multidisciplinary academic journals.
Educational Administration Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Over 60 thousand records on education administrations and related research areas.
Education Source This link opens in a new window
Education Source is the most authoritative resource for the study of education, covering over 1,700 journals, books, and over 4 million articles.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index.
Professional Development Collection This link opens in a new window
Highly specialized collection of electronic information especially for professional educators. This collection offers information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory and practice.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Psychology journal coverage from 1887 to the present, including more than 1,700 periodicals in 35 languages
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Covers the world's leading literature in sciences, social sciences, and the humanities, from 1981 to the present.

TTU Libraries Catalog

Chronicle of Higher Education
Education Digest
Education Week
In-depth news stories, features, commentaries and special reports on critical and timely issues in education.

ERIC This link opens in a new window
To locate test and measurement information in ERIC,
LIMIT the "Publication Type" to Tests/Questionnaires.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments This link opens in a new window
Bibliographic coverage of a wide variety of evaluation and measurement tools for health and psychosocial studies.
PsycTests This link opens in a new window
Professionally indexed, this database is an extensive collection of psychological measures, scales, surveys, and other instruments essential to the research needs of professionals, students, and educators across the behavioral and social sciences.

Helpful Search Terms

Use the Texas Tech University Libraries Catalog

to find books and other media on higher education. The following subject headings are suggested when using the SUBJECT HEADING BROWSE search choice (dropdown box on the catalog search page).

Universities and Colleges - United States
Education, Humanistic
Education, Higher - United States
Minorities - Education (Higher) - United States
Educational Change - United States
Education and globalization
Universities and colleges - Cross-cultural studies

Tests and Measurements

ERIC This link opens in a new window
To locate test and measurement information in ERIC,
LIMIT the "Publication Type" to Tests/Questionnaires.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments This link opens in a new window
Provides information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
Dates Covered: 1985-present.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Produced by the American Psychological Association, it is the most comprehensive database of psychology. It provides abstracts and citations to peer-reviewed literature, including journal articles, books, book chapters and theses.