14 Of The Best Tools For Educational Research

Best Tools Educational Research

What Are The Best Tools For Educational Research?

by TeachThought Staff

What are the best tools for educational research?

In Search Engines For Academic Research, we shared a list of actual search platforms including BASE, saying “BASE is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines, especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 200 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.”

Below, we shared tools for educational research specifically. Note, many of the tools on the above list may also be useful, too.

Tools And Platforms To Find Education Research About Teaching And Learning

Google Scholar

Function: Search for educational research studies, data, and more

National Center for Education Research

Function: Search for educational research studies and related resources

Academia.edu

Function: Search for educational research studies in addition to less formally-academic content

JTSTOR

Function: Search for educational research studies and related resources

Collect

Function: save/curate research you find across the internet

EasyBib

Function: Cite research in writing, presentations, etc.

AERA

Function: Search for educational research studies and related resources

Pocket

Function: Save/curate research

Wikipedia

Function: Skim topics, read summaries of concepts, find overviews of research; check Works Cited (References) section at the bottom of articles for citations

Microsoft OneNote

Function: Summarize research, curate screenshots, take and share notes, organize research by binder for topics, etc.

Bookshlf

Function: Not purely ‘education research,’ Bookshlf uses ‘human-driven’ curation of content (as opposed to algorithm-based)

Listory

Function: Listen to 3-minute summaries of content to analyze its value to your research, etc.

Lazy Scholar

Function: Finds free scholarly full texts, metrics, and provides quick citation and sharing links.

PubPeer

About: The stated goal of Pubpeer is “to improve the quality of scientific research by enabling innovative approaches for community interaction. The bylaws of the Foundation establish pubpeer.com as a service run for the benefit of its readers and commenters, who create its content. Our current focus is maintaining and developing the PubPeer online platform for post-publication peer review.”

14 Of The Best Tools For Educational Research